Northern Ireland News for November 2007 : Page 9
Northern Ireland News, Nov 14, 2007
Tourist Numbers Targeted
The Assembly Minister responsible for tourism has set his department a challenge for inward tourism. Nigel Dodds, Enterprise Minister said: "What we have set ourselves is a target of increasing the n...
Tourist Numbers Targeted
The Assembly Minister responsible for tourism has set his department a challenge for inward tourism. Nigel Dodds, Enterprise Minister said: "What we have set ourselves is a target of increasing the n...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 14, 2007
N I Enterprise Celebrated
As part of National Enterprise Week, Invest Northern Ireland - in association with Ulster Bank - has hosted a Celebration of Enterprise gala dinner at which several local entrepreneurs were honoured f...
N I Enterprise Celebrated
As part of National Enterprise Week, Invest Northern Ireland - in association with Ulster Bank - has hosted a Celebration of Enterprise gala dinner at which several local entrepreneurs were honoured f...
UK National News, Nov 13, 2007
Childminder Guilty Of Baby's Death
A registered childminder has been jailed for three years after being found guilty of killing an eleven-month baby girl by violently shaking her in a fit of temper. Keran Henderson, a 43-year-old moth...
Childminder Guilty Of Baby's Death
A registered childminder has been jailed for three years after being found guilty of killing an eleven-month baby girl by violently shaking her in a fit of temper. Keran Henderson, a 43-year-old moth...
Recruitment News, Nov 13, 2007
Jobs To Be Lost In Shannon And Nass
Two multinational firms have announced plans to lay off a total of 130 workers in Co Clare and Co Kildare. The US firm Thomson Financial says it will be shedding 80 jobs in Shannon as part of a plan...
Jobs To Be Lost In Shannon And Nass
Two multinational firms have announced plans to lay off a total of 130 workers in Co Clare and Co Kildare. The US firm Thomson Financial says it will be shedding 80 jobs in Shannon as part of a plan...
UK National News, Nov 13, 2007
Paddick Is Lib Dem Mayor Candidate
Former Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Brian Paddick has been named as the Liberal Democrat's candidate for London Mayor. Mr Paddick - an openly gay police officer - was selected af...
Paddick Is Lib Dem Mayor Candidate
Former Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Brian Paddick has been named as the Liberal Democrat's candidate for London Mayor. Mr Paddick - an openly gay police officer - was selected af...
UK National News, Nov 13, 2007
Women Motorists 'More Prepared' For Bad Weather
Women drivers are more likely to get caught out by severe weather, according to new research published by the Highways Agency. A survey of nearly 1,300 road users showed that women were less likely t...
Women Motorists 'More Prepared' For Bad Weather
Women drivers are more likely to get caught out by severe weather, according to new research published by the Highways Agency. A survey of nearly 1,300 road users showed that women were less likely t...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 13, 2007
Ulster Tourist Spots 'Maddie' In Bosnia
There was fresh hope again in the six-month long hunt for missing Madeleine McCann. Private detectives hired by parents Gerry and Kate McCann are now working with police in Bosnia in a bid to substan...
Ulster Tourist Spots 'Maddie' In Bosnia
There was fresh hope again in the six-month long hunt for missing Madeleine McCann. Private detectives hired by parents Gerry and Kate McCann are now working with police in Bosnia in a bid to substan...
UK National News, Nov 13, 2007
Suffolk Bird Flu Strain Is Deadly H5N1
Tests conducted on birds at a farm in Suffolk have found that they were infected with the highly infectious H5N1 strain of the disease. Around 6,500 birds, including turkeys, ducks and geese, were cu...
Suffolk Bird Flu Strain Is Deadly H5N1
Tests conducted on birds at a farm in Suffolk have found that they were infected with the highly infectious H5N1 strain of the disease. Around 6,500 birds, including turkeys, ducks and geese, were cu...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 13, 2007
Rally Diverted From Omagh Relative's Home
Part of this week’s World Rally Championships is to be shortened – to take account of the tragedy in Omagh – where an entire family has been killed in a house fire. The organisers of Rally Ireland ha...
Rally Diverted From Omagh Relative's Home
Part of this week’s World Rally Championships is to be shortened – to take account of the tragedy in Omagh – where an entire family has been killed in a house fire. The organisers of Rally Ireland ha...
UK National News, Nov 13, 2007
Boy George Charged With False Imprisonment
Boy George has been charged with false imprisonment, Scotland Yard has confirmed. The 47-year-old singer and DJ - real name George O'Dowd - was arrested in connection with the alleged incident, which...
Boy George Charged With False Imprisonment
Boy George has been charged with false imprisonment, Scotland Yard has confirmed. The 47-year-old singer and DJ - real name George O'Dowd - was arrested in connection with the alleged incident, which...
UK National News, Nov 13, 2007
Body May Be Missing Student
Police investigating the disappearance of a student in 1991 are examining what are believed to be human remains found in a garden in Margate. Dinah McNicol, 18, from Tillingham in Essex disappeared a...
Body May Be Missing Student
Police investigating the disappearance of a student in 1991 are examining what are believed to be human remains found in a garden in Margate. Dinah McNicol, 18, from Tillingham in Essex disappeared a...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 13, 2007
DUP Seek Answers As Laird Names Quinn Killers
Leading republicans have been named as the killers of Paul Quinn, the south Armagh man brutally beaten to death last month. Lord John Laird, an Ulster Unionist peer has alleged in the House of Lords ...
DUP Seek Answers As Laird Names Quinn Killers
Leading republicans have been named as the killers of Paul Quinn, the south Armagh man brutally beaten to death last month. Lord John Laird, an Ulster Unionist peer has alleged in the House of Lords ...
UK National News, Nov 13, 2007
Junk Food Ad Rules 'Still Failing Children'
Restrictions on junk food advertising are still not adequately protecting children, consumer group Which? has claimed. Which? has renewed calls for a 9pm watershed for junk food ads after it conducte...
Junk Food Ad Rules 'Still Failing Children'
Restrictions on junk food advertising are still not adequately protecting children, consumer group Which? has claimed. Which? has renewed calls for a 9pm watershed for junk food ads after it conducte...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 13, 2007
Carlow Stab Victim From Belfast
A young woman who comes originally from Belfast has been found stabbed to death at her adopted home in the Irish Republic. A post-mortem examination is due to be carried out on the body of Ciara Camp...
Carlow Stab Victim From Belfast
A young woman who comes originally from Belfast has been found stabbed to death at her adopted home in the Irish Republic. A post-mortem examination is due to be carried out on the body of Ciara Camp...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 13, 2007
Fine For Farmer Who Shot Boy
The 73-year-old farmer who admitted that he shot a five-year-old boy in the head by mistake at a school playground near Enniskillen has been fined £5,000 - and escaped a jail sentence. Fergus Cleary ...
Fine For Farmer Who Shot Boy
The 73-year-old farmer who admitted that he shot a five-year-old boy in the head by mistake at a school playground near Enniskillen has been fined £5,000 - and escaped a jail sentence. Fergus Cleary ...
UK National News, Nov 13, 2007
Wrong-Sized Shoes Pose Risk For Diabetics
More than six out of 10 diabetes sufferers are wearing the wrong-sized shoes, exposing them to potentially serious foot problems, which could lead to amputation, new research has revealed. A study by...
Wrong-Sized Shoes Pose Risk For Diabetics
More than six out of 10 diabetes sufferers are wearing the wrong-sized shoes, exposing them to potentially serious foot problems, which could lead to amputation, new research has revealed. A study by...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 13, 2007
McGuinness Appeals For Information On Police Murder Bid
Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness, the Assembly’s Deputy First Minister has called for anybody with information about the shooting of a police officer in Dungannon last night to bring it to the police. "...
McGuinness Appeals For Information On Police Murder Bid
Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness, the Assembly’s Deputy First Minister has called for anybody with information about the shooting of a police officer in Dungannon last night to bring it to the police. "...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 13, 2007
Tea Time Success
A specialist artisan tea and infusions blender based in Belfast has won an important contract from Espresso Warehouse in Glasgow, a leading distributor of ‘coffee bar supplies’. It has placed an orde...
Tea Time Success
A specialist artisan tea and infusions blender based in Belfast has won an important contract from Espresso Warehouse in Glasgow, a leading distributor of ‘coffee bar supplies’. It has placed an orde...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 12, 2007
Rally Ireland Really Takes Off: With 60 Choppers Aloft
It won’t be just impressive on the roads this week as the World Rally Championships races into Ulster. Although hundreds of spectators are expected to pack the grounds of Stormont Estate for the ope...
Rally Ireland Really Takes Off: With 60 Choppers Aloft
It won’t be just impressive on the roads this week as the World Rally Championships races into Ulster. Although hundreds of spectators are expected to pack the grounds of Stormont Estate for the ope...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 12, 2007
Belfast Killings: Suspects Held In Republic And North
Suspects in a double murder case that took place in Belfast earlier this year have been arrested by the Gardaí, and four more have since been detained in Northern Ireland. The first four people were ...
Belfast Killings: Suspects Held In Republic And North
Suspects in a double murder case that took place in Belfast earlier this year have been arrested by the Gardaí, and four more have since been detained in Northern Ireland. The first four people were ...
UK National News, Nov 12, 2007
Man Jailed For Life For Lesley Molseed Murder
A 54-year-old man has been found guilty of the murder of schoolgirl Lesley Molseed in 1975. Comic book dealer Ronald Castree, of Brandon Crescent, Oldham was found guilty of the 11-year-old's murder....
Man Jailed For Life For Lesley Molseed Murder
A 54-year-old man has been found guilty of the murder of schoolgirl Lesley Molseed in 1975. Comic book dealer Ronald Castree, of Brandon Crescent, Oldham was found guilty of the 11-year-old's murder....
UK National News, Nov 12, 2007
Smoke Clouds London In Blaze Alert
There doesn’t appear to be any terrorist connection to a major fire in London that is sending huge plumes of black smoke across the capital. Teams of fire fighters are now tackling the huge blaze in ...
Smoke Clouds London In Blaze Alert
There doesn’t appear to be any terrorist connection to a major fire in London that is sending huge plumes of black smoke across the capital. Teams of fire fighters are now tackling the huge blaze in ...
UK National News, Nov 12, 2007
British Pensioner Murdered In Spain
A British pensioner has been murdered in her home in Spain. Janette May Grocutt, 74, was stabbed to death at her home in the village of Paredon, near Alicante, on Friday. It is believed that she was...
British Pensioner Murdered In Spain
A British pensioner has been murdered in her home in Spain. Janette May Grocutt, 74, was stabbed to death at her home in the village of Paredon, near Alicante, on Friday. It is believed that she was...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 12, 2007
Christmas Stamps Add Festive Cheer
After a long running and occasionally bitter industrial dispute at Royal Mail earlier this year, it's particularly appropriate that heavenly angels bearing messages of peace, goodwill joy and glory sh...
Christmas Stamps Add Festive Cheer
After a long running and occasionally bitter industrial dispute at Royal Mail earlier this year, it's particularly appropriate that heavenly angels bearing messages of peace, goodwill joy and glory sh...
UK National News, Nov 12, 2007
Teenager Jailed For Life For Homophobic Murder
A teenager who murdered a gay council worker in a homophobic attack in Scotland has been jailed for life. David Meehan, 19, from Perth had pleaded guilty to the murder of James Kerr, 51, in South Inc...
Teenager Jailed For Life For Homophobic Murder
A teenager who murdered a gay council worker in a homophobic attack in Scotland has been jailed for life. David Meehan, 19, from Perth had pleaded guilty to the murder of James Kerr, 51, in South Inc...
UK National News, Nov 12, 2007
Tories Call For Tougher Rape Laws
Conservative leader David Cameron has called for tougher sentences for rapists in a speech at the Conservative Women's Organisation conference. Mr Cameron said: "Studies have shown that as many as on...
Tories Call For Tougher Rape Laws
Conservative leader David Cameron has called for tougher sentences for rapists in a speech at the Conservative Women's Organisation conference. Mr Cameron said: "Studies have shown that as many as on...
UK National News, Nov 12, 2007
Royal Split?
While Prince Harry was pictured looking relaxed and smiling as he attended a remembrance service in Windsor on Sunday, his girlfriend, Chelsy Davy is reportedly heading back to South Africa - cooling ...
Royal Split?
While Prince Harry was pictured looking relaxed and smiling as he attended a remembrance service in Windsor on Sunday, his girlfriend, Chelsy Davy is reportedly heading back to South Africa - cooling ...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 12, 2007
UDA Keeps Its Guns
There’s to be no decommissioning of the loyalist Ulster Defence Association’s weapons even though it has claimed to have ‘stood down’ part of its organisation, the Ulster Freedom Fighters. A statemen...
UDA Keeps Its Guns
There’s to be no decommissioning of the loyalist Ulster Defence Association’s weapons even though it has claimed to have ‘stood down’ part of its organisation, the Ulster Freedom Fighters. A statemen...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 12, 2007
Take Up Nursing Challenge Says Minister
More nurses are needed in Northern Ireland, especially in some specialised branches. The Assembly Health Minister, Michael McGimpsey has launched a campaign to encourage students to apply for mental ...
Take Up Nursing Challenge Says Minister
More nurses are needed in Northern Ireland, especially in some specialised branches. The Assembly Health Minister, Michael McGimpsey has launched a campaign to encourage students to apply for mental ...
UK National News, Nov 12, 2007
Hauliers May Take Fuel Protest On The Road
Protestors may take to the streets over spiraling fuel prices. The high costs are causing "frustration and anger" among hauliers, the Road Haulage Association has warned. Prices have gone up every w...
Hauliers May Take Fuel Protest On The Road
Protestors may take to the streets over spiraling fuel prices. The high costs are causing "frustration and anger" among hauliers, the Road Haulage Association has warned. Prices have gone up every w...
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Northern Ireland WeatherToday:A sunny but frosty start for many. However cloud increases by midday with a few showers reaching the north coast, these mostly light but spreading inland this afternoon. Chilly. Maximum temperature 8 °C.Tonight:A rather cloudy evening with scattered showers. Becoming drier through the night with some good clear spells developing and a patchy frost away from coasts. Minimum temperature 0 °C.