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Northern Ireland News for October 2007 : Page 5
UK National News, Oct 23, 2007
UK Population 'To Hit 70 Million By 2031'
The UK population is projected to increase by 4.4 million to reach 65 million by 2016, according to the latest figures released by the Office of National Statistics. The increase is equivalent to an ...
UK Population 'To Hit 70 Million By 2031'
The UK population is projected to increase by 4.4 million to reach 65 million by 2016, according to the latest figures released by the Office of National Statistics. The increase is equivalent to an ...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 23, 2007
Woman 'Critical' After Guest House Blaze
An investigation is underway into the cause of a fire that left two women in their mid-20s hospitalised - with one of them in a critical condition - after being trapped by the blaze that broke out in ...
Woman 'Critical' After Guest House Blaze
An investigation is underway into the cause of a fire that left two women in their mid-20s hospitalised - with one of them in a critical condition - after being trapped by the blaze that broke out in ...
UK National News, Oct 23, 2007
Children Orphaned In Parents' Sea Rescue Bid
Three Britons were among four holidaymakers drowned off the southwest coast of Portugal as they attempted to rescue their children from a rip tide. A German man also died in the incident, which happe...
Children Orphaned In Parents' Sea Rescue Bid
Three Britons were among four holidaymakers drowned off the southwest coast of Portugal as they attempted to rescue their children from a rip tide. A German man also died in the incident, which happe...
UK National News, Oct 23, 2007
Motorcycle Swerved At Diana Crash
Evidence has been heard that a motorcycle following Princess Diana's Mercedes swerved to avoid the car as it crashed in a Paris tunnel. The Inquest has heard from a French motorist, Grigori Rassinier...
Motorcycle Swerved At Diana Crash
Evidence has been heard that a motorcycle following Princess Diana's Mercedes swerved to avoid the car as it crashed in a Paris tunnel. The Inquest has heard from a French motorist, Grigori Rassinier...
UK National News, Oct 23, 2007
London Shooting Victim Named
The man killed in a shooting on a south London street on Monday has been named as 35-year-old Gary Guthrie. Mr Guthrie was shot in Streatham High Road around 5:20am yesterday. He was taken to hospita...
London Shooting Victim Named
The man killed in a shooting on a south London street on Monday has been named as 35-year-old Gary Guthrie. Mr Guthrie was shot in Streatham High Road around 5:20am yesterday. He was taken to hospita...
UK National News, Oct 23, 2007
Majorca Mum Missing After Child's Hotel Fall
The mother of a seven-year-old British girl who was seriously injured in a fall from a hotel balcony in Majorca is being sought by police. Gianna Cooper, from Cambridgeshire, was found on the roof of...
Majorca Mum Missing After Child's Hotel Fall
The mother of a seven-year-old British girl who was seriously injured in a fall from a hotel balcony in Majorca is being sought by police. Gianna Cooper, from Cambridgeshire, was found on the roof of...
UK National News, Oct 23, 2007
Fresh Appeal Over 1979 Forest Death
A missing persons charity has made a fresh appeal for information regarding a woman who was found dead in a forest in Kent 28 years ago. The body of the woman, who was aged between 30 and 35, was dis...
Fresh Appeal Over 1979 Forest Death
A missing persons charity has made a fresh appeal for information regarding a woman who was found dead in a forest in Kent 28 years ago. The body of the woman, who was aged between 30 and 35, was dis...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 23, 2007
PSNI Compensation Bill Hits £3 - With £60m to come
Compensation paid to police officers has reached almost £3m – but a further £60m is being sought by former officers suffering hearing loss mainly caused in the Troubles. In the past 12 months, servin...
PSNI Compensation Bill Hits £3 - With £60m to come
Compensation paid to police officers has reached almost £3m – but a further £60m is being sought by former officers suffering hearing loss mainly caused in the Troubles. In the past 12 months, servin...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 23, 2007
McGuinness Terror Victims' Meeting Off
Victim’s lobby group, Families Acting for Innocent Relatives (FAIR) has cancelled face-to-face talks with Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness. The move follows the brutal weekend...
McGuinness Terror Victims' Meeting Off
Victim’s lobby group, Families Acting for Innocent Relatives (FAIR) has cancelled face-to-face talks with Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness. The move follows the brutal weekend...
UK National News, Oct 23, 2007
Body Sought In Jeweller Murder Probe
Police searching for the main suspect in the murder of Nottingham jeweller Marian Bates are now concentrating on searching an area where they believe his body may be located. This is a change of emph...
Body Sought In Jeweller Murder Probe
Police searching for the main suspect in the murder of Nottingham jeweller Marian Bates are now concentrating on searching an area where they believe his body may be located. This is a change of emph...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 23, 2007
Holland Murder Boosts Community Policing Input
People living in an area that isn’t best known for effective police-community liaison are now said to be more likely to report matters to the PSNI. The senior officer in charge of policing west Belfa...
Holland Murder Boosts Community Policing Input
People living in an area that isn’t best known for effective police-community liaison are now said to be more likely to report matters to the PSNI. The senior officer in charge of policing west Belfa...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 23, 2007
NI's Westminster MPs Can Attend Daíl
Unionist MPs are likely to ignore an opportunity to attend committee meetings in the Dublin parliament for the first time. This is even though a newly-formed Joint Committee in the Daíl aims to monit...
NI's Westminster MPs Can Attend Daíl
Unionist MPs are likely to ignore an opportunity to attend committee meetings in the Dublin parliament for the first time. This is even though a newly-formed Joint Committee in the Daíl aims to monit...
UK National News, Oct 23, 2007
Recycling Targets Will Be Missed: Report
It has been claimed that the UK will fail to hit important recycling targets. A new report has revealed that as much as 40% of the packaging used by leading supermarkets cannot be recycled. The Loca...
Recycling Targets Will Be Missed: Report
It has been claimed that the UK will fail to hit important recycling targets. A new report has revealed that as much as 40% of the packaging used by leading supermarkets cannot be recycled. The Loca...
UK National News, Oct 23, 2007
Questions Over Cash For Honours Inquiry
The man leading the police inquiry into the "cash-for-honours" affair is to be questioned by MPs as to why so long was spent investigating claims which did not lead to charges. Metropolitan Police As...
Questions Over Cash For Honours Inquiry
The man leading the police inquiry into the "cash-for-honours" affair is to be questioned by MPs as to why so long was spent investigating claims which did not lead to charges. Metropolitan Police As...
Recruitment News, Oct 23, 2007
Dunnes Dublin Store Creates 300 Jobs
Three hundred new jobs have been created with the opening of a new Dunnes Stores shop in Finglas in north Dublin. The new store opened today in the Charlestown Shopping Centre off the M50. The new s...
Dunnes Dublin Store Creates 300 Jobs
Three hundred new jobs have been created with the opening of a new Dunnes Stores shop in Finglas in north Dublin. The new store opened today in the Charlestown Shopping Centre off the M50. The new s...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 22, 2007
Charges Follow Lurgan's Weekend Mayhem
Three men have been charged following violent disturbances in County Armagh last night Police came under petrol bomb attack when they moved in to the centre of Lurgan where crowds were hurling missi...
Charges Follow Lurgan's Weekend Mayhem
Three men have been charged following violent disturbances in County Armagh last night Police came under petrol bomb attack when they moved in to the centre of Lurgan where crowds were hurling missi...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 22, 2007
Brutal Murder Blamed On Provos
The family of young south Armagh man beaten to death at the weekend is in no doubt that he was killed by the IRA. Despite local Sinn Fein MP Conor Murphy’s denial of republican involvement in the hor...
Brutal Murder Blamed On Provos
The family of young south Armagh man beaten to death at the weekend is in no doubt that he was killed by the IRA. Despite local Sinn Fein MP Conor Murphy’s denial of republican involvement in the hor...
UK National News, Oct 22, 2007
Nine Arrests Following Fatal London Shooting
One man was killed and another was seriously injured following a shooting incident in a street in southwest London in the early hours of Monday morning. Nine people have now been arrested in connecti...
Nine Arrests Following Fatal London Shooting
One man was killed and another was seriously injured following a shooting incident in a street in southwest London in the early hours of Monday morning. Nine people have now been arrested in connecti...
UK National News, Oct 22, 2007
Investigators To Re-interview McCann Friends
Friends of Madeleine McCann's parents who dined with the couple on the night the four-year-old disappeared are to be re-interviewed. Madeleine is believed to have been abducted from a holiday apartme...
Investigators To Re-interview McCann Friends
Friends of Madeleine McCann's parents who dined with the couple on the night the four-year-old disappeared are to be re-interviewed. Madeleine is believed to have been abducted from a holiday apartme...
UK National News, Oct 22, 2007
Fatal Crash Closes M6 In Cumbria
A large stretch of the M6 in Cumbria has been closed following a crash in which a man was killed. The incident happened shortly before 8am on Monday, when an HGV Scania collided with a transit van be...
Fatal Crash Closes M6 In Cumbria
A large stretch of the M6 in Cumbria has been closed following a crash in which a man was killed. The incident happened shortly before 8am on Monday, when an HGV Scania collided with a transit van be...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 22, 2007
Man Charged As Schoolboy Stabbing Probe Stepped Up
Although no one has as yet been charged with murdering Belfast schoolboy Thomas Devlin, a man is now due in court in relation to the attack. At a sitting of Belfast Magistrates Court on Monday the 24...
Man Charged As Schoolboy Stabbing Probe Stepped Up
Although no one has as yet been charged with murdering Belfast schoolboy Thomas Devlin, a man is now due in court in relation to the attack. At a sitting of Belfast Magistrates Court on Monday the 24...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 22, 2007
No Water Rates: But Only For Now
There will be no water charges for Northern Ireland – but only for the present. Northern Ireland householders will not have to pay separate water bills this year or next, Regional Development Ministe...
No Water Rates: But Only For Now
There will be no water charges for Northern Ireland – but only for the present. Northern Ireland householders will not have to pay separate water bills this year or next, Regional Development Ministe...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 22, 2007
MLAs To Debate Sellafield Fallout
The NI Assembly is about to debate an issue that has divided Europe for five decades, that of nuclear power. It has now proved to be the case that the radioactive fallout from a nuclear accident just...
MLAs To Debate Sellafield Fallout
The NI Assembly is about to debate an issue that has divided Europe for five decades, that of nuclear power. It has now proved to be the case that the radioactive fallout from a nuclear accident just...
UK National News, Oct 22, 2007
Commons Grilling On Terror Laws
The Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith is to be questioned about the government's plans for tighter anti-terror laws. She is to appear before the cross-party House of Commons Home Affairs Committee and wil...
Commons Grilling On Terror Laws
The Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith is to be questioned about the government's plans for tighter anti-terror laws. She is to appear before the cross-party House of Commons Home Affairs Committee and wil...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 22, 2007
Committee Showdown on UDA Funding Row
Assembly Minister Margaret Ritchie and her most senior civil servant are to go before the Assembly’s own social development scrutiny committee today to explain the funding decision which has so seriou...
Committee Showdown on UDA Funding Row
Assembly Minister Margaret Ritchie and her most senior civil servant are to go before the Assembly’s own social development scrutiny committee today to explain the funding decision which has so seriou...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 22, 2007
Westlink Marks Another Keystone Achievement
With the newly completed Grosvenor Road underpass already in daily use, this week’s completion of a key road bridge over the same location is a major fillip for Belfast's multi million pound Westlink ...
Westlink Marks Another Keystone Achievement
With the newly completed Grosvenor Road underpass already in daily use, this week’s completion of a key road bridge over the same location is a major fillip for Belfast's multi million pound Westlink ...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 22, 2007
Thousands Protest Aer Lingus’ Belfast Move
Protesters want the Irish government to use its shareholding in Aer Lingus to force the company to reverse its decision to close the Shannon Airport to Heathrow link. Up to 10,000 people have attende...
Thousands Protest Aer Lingus’ Belfast Move
Protesters want the Irish government to use its shareholding in Aer Lingus to force the company to reverse its decision to close the Shannon Airport to Heathrow link. Up to 10,000 people have attende...
UK National News, Oct 22, 2007
Third Arrest Over Sheffield Playground Slaying
Police investigating the shooting of 16-year-old Jonathan Matondo in Sheffield last week have arrested a third man. The 26-year-old was arrested at an address in north Derbyshire, South Yorkshire Pol...
Third Arrest Over Sheffield Playground Slaying
Police investigating the shooting of 16-year-old Jonathan Matondo in Sheffield last week have arrested a third man. The 26-year-old was arrested at an address in north Derbyshire, South Yorkshire Pol...
UK National News, Oct 22, 2007
Brown Defends EU Treaty In Commons
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has defended the new EU Reform Treaty in the House of Commons. Mr Brown told the Commons on Monday that MPs would be given a chance to debate the treaty and asked if they ...
Brown Defends EU Treaty In Commons
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has defended the new EU Reform Treaty in the House of Commons. Mr Brown told the Commons on Monday that MPs would be given a chance to debate the treaty and asked if they ...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 22, 2007
Assembly Set For Brief On Legislative Programme
The First and Deputy First Ministers are tabling a motion which will give the Assembly the opportunity to discuss the content of a major legislative announcement - expected to be on Thursday. A tota...
Assembly Set For Brief On Legislative Programme
The First and Deputy First Ministers are tabling a motion which will give the Assembly the opportunity to discuss the content of a major legislative announcement - expected to be on Thursday. A tota...
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Northern Ireland WeatherToday:Low cloud, mist or fog at first will clear through the morning to leave a dry day with some prolonged sunny spells through the afternoon. Maximum temperature 21 °C.Tonight:Dry with clear spells for most places through the evening and overnight will allow the odd mist or fog patch to form. Coastal low cloud spreads into northern counties. Minimum temperature 9 °C.
