Northern Ireland News for September 2007 : Page 8
Northern Ireland News, Sep 12, 2007
Aircraft Grounded For Safety Checks
UK airline Flybe has grounded six of its fleet of Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 aircraft as a precautionary measure. Bombardier has recommended that 60 of its Dash 8 Q400 turboprop aircraft are grounded for...
Aircraft Grounded For Safety Checks
UK airline Flybe has grounded six of its fleet of Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 aircraft as a precautionary measure. Bombardier has recommended that 60 of its Dash 8 Q400 turboprop aircraft are grounded for...
Northern Ireland News, Sep 12, 2007
Madeleine File Studied By Judge
A Portuguese judge is studying a 1,000-page dossier on the Madeleine McCann case and reviewing the evidence against her parents, Gerry and Kate McCann. The judge will have ten days to consider the co...
Madeleine File Studied By Judge
A Portuguese judge is studying a 1,000-page dossier on the Madeleine McCann case and reviewing the evidence against her parents, Gerry and Kate McCann. The judge will have ten days to consider the co...
Northern Ireland News, Sep 12, 2007
Lee Clegg 'To Serve In Afghanistan'
A British soldier who was jailed for shooting dead two teenage joyriders in Belfast is to serve in Afghanistan, it has been reported. Sergeant Lee Clegg, now 38, was jailed for life in 1993 for the m...
Lee Clegg 'To Serve In Afghanistan'
A British soldier who was jailed for shooting dead two teenage joyriders in Belfast is to serve in Afghanistan, it has been reported. Sergeant Lee Clegg, now 38, was jailed for life in 1993 for the m...
Northern Ireland News, Sep 12, 2007
Vandals Strike At Newpark Household Recycling Centre
Antrim Borough Council's Recycling Centre at Newpark, Antrim, has recently been the target of mindless acts of vandalism. Many of the recycling containers, including some of which are Charity owned, ...
Vandals Strike At Newpark Household Recycling Centre
Antrim Borough Council's Recycling Centre at Newpark, Antrim, has recently been the target of mindless acts of vandalism. Many of the recycling containers, including some of which are Charity owned, ...
Northern Ireland News, Sep 12, 2007
NI Fare On Display In Edinburgh
Food products from nine local companies will be displayed on an Invest Northern Ireland stand at the Scottish Grocer Show in Edinburgh over the next two days. The event, held in the Highland Centre, ...
NI Fare On Display In Edinburgh
Food products from nine local companies will be displayed on an Invest Northern Ireland stand at the Scottish Grocer Show in Edinburgh over the next two days. The event, held in the Highland Centre, ...
Northern Ireland News, Sep 11, 2007
Assembly To Debate Giant's Causeway Visitor Centre
The Northern Ireland Assembly is to debate plans to accept a private planning application for a visitor's centre at the Giant's Causeway. Environment Minister Arlene Foster has indicated she is "of a...
Assembly To Debate Giant's Causeway Visitor Centre
The Northern Ireland Assembly is to debate plans to accept a private planning application for a visitor's centre at the Giant's Causeway. Environment Minister Arlene Foster has indicated she is "of a...
Northern Ireland News, Sep 11, 2007
Poots To Consider Football Hooligan Legislation
Culture Minister Edwin Poots is to consider new legislation to tackle football hooliganism. During an Assembly debate on tackling sectarianism and racism in sport, Mr Poots confirmed that he would be...
Poots To Consider Football Hooligan Legislation
Culture Minister Edwin Poots is to consider new legislation to tackle football hooliganism. During an Assembly debate on tackling sectarianism and racism in sport, Mr Poots confirmed that he would be...
UK National News, Sep 11, 2007
British Holidaymaker Dies From Legionnaires' Disease
A British tourist has died after contracting Legionnaires' Disease during a coach trip to Italy. The man was one of two people who reported feeling ill last Thursday, Health Protection Scotland confi...
British Holidaymaker Dies From Legionnaires' Disease
A British tourist has died after contracting Legionnaires' Disease during a coach trip to Italy. The man was one of two people who reported feeling ill last Thursday, Health Protection Scotland confi...
UK National News, Sep 11, 2007
Grandmother Cleared Over Child Dog Attack Death
The grandmother of five-year-old Ellie Lawrenson, who was mauled to death by a pit bull terrier on New Year's Day, has been cleared of her manslaughter. Jacqueline Simpson, 45, had been looking after...
Grandmother Cleared Over Child Dog Attack Death
The grandmother of five-year-old Ellie Lawrenson, who was mauled to death by a pit bull terrier on New Year's Day, has been cleared of her manslaughter. Jacqueline Simpson, 45, had been looking after...
UK National News, Sep 11, 2007
Public Prosecutor Given Madeleine Files
Files on the Madeleine McCann case have been given to the Portuguese public prosecutor. Prosecutors will now examine reports of three samples of Madeleine's DNA discovered by police and decide whethe...
Public Prosecutor Given Madeleine Files
Files on the Madeleine McCann case have been given to the Portuguese public prosecutor. Prosecutors will now examine reports of three samples of Madeleine's DNA discovered by police and decide whethe...
Northern Ireland News, Sep 11, 2007
Madeleine Files Given To Public Prosecutor
Files on the Madeleine McCann case have been given to the Portuguese public prosecutor. Prosecutors will now examine reports of three samples of Madeleine's DNA discovered by police and decide whethe...
Madeleine Files Given To Public Prosecutor
Files on the Madeleine McCann case have been given to the Portuguese public prosecutor. Prosecutors will now examine reports of three samples of Madeleine's DNA discovered by police and decide whethe...
Northern Ireland News, Sep 11, 2007
Dame Anita Roddick Dies
Dame Anita Roddick, founder of ethical cosmetics chain the Body Shop, has died at the age of 64. Dame Anita was rushed to St Richard's Hospital in Chichester on Sunday evening after complaining of a ...
Dame Anita Roddick Dies
Dame Anita Roddick, founder of ethical cosmetics chain the Body Shop, has died at the age of 64. Dame Anita was rushed to St Richard's Hospital in Chichester on Sunday evening after complaining of a ...
Northern Ireland News, Sep 11, 2007
Borland Relocate European Centre To Belfast
Borland Software Corporation is relocating its European technical support centre to Belfast in a multi-million pound investment supported by Invest Northern Ireland that will create some 50 additional...
Borland Relocate European Centre To Belfast
Borland Software Corporation is relocating its European technical support centre to Belfast in a multi-million pound investment supported by Invest Northern Ireland that will create some 50 additional...
UK National News, Sep 11, 2007
Father Wins First Stage In Legal Battle For Children
An unmarried father has won the first stage in a landmark court case to have his two children returned to Ireland from Britain. On Tuesday, the Irish High Court ruled that the former partner of the m...
Father Wins First Stage In Legal Battle For Children
An unmarried father has won the first stage in a landmark court case to have his two children returned to Ireland from Britain. On Tuesday, the Irish High Court ruled that the former partner of the m...
UK National News, Sep 11, 2007
Top Gear Presenter Hammond Involved In Crash
Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond has been involved in another car crash, less than a year after he nearly died in a 288mph crash. The BBC confirmed that Hammond, 37, skidded off the track while par...
Top Gear Presenter Hammond Involved In Crash
Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond has been involved in another car crash, less than a year after he nearly died in a 288mph crash. The BBC confirmed that Hammond, 37, skidded off the track while par...
Northern Ireland News, Sep 11, 2007
Northern Ireland Exporters Association Launched
The Northern Ireland Exporters Association is being launched in Belfast today. The Association is being launched to strengthen links between Ireland and Northern Ireland so that all sectors - public ...
Northern Ireland Exporters Association Launched
The Northern Ireland Exporters Association is being launched in Belfast today. The Association is being launched to strengthen links between Ireland and Northern Ireland so that all sectors - public ...
Northern Ireland News, Sep 11, 2007
Healy, Gillespie And Evans Sit Out Training
Three Northern Ireland players, including striker David Healy, missed a training session on Monday in Reykjavik, ahead of Wednesday's Euro 2008 qualifier against Iceland. Healy, Keith Gillespie and J...
Healy, Gillespie And Evans Sit Out Training
Three Northern Ireland players, including striker David Healy, missed a training session on Monday in Reykjavik, ahead of Wednesday's Euro 2008 qualifier against Iceland. Healy, Keith Gillespie and J...
Northern Ireland News, Sep 10, 2007
Papers Highlight NI Suicide Risk
Despite the high suicide rate in Northern Ireland some four out of five GPs do not have specialist knowledge of suicide prevention. The claim comes from Northern Ireland Suicide Prevention Taskforce ...
Papers Highlight NI Suicide Risk
Despite the high suicide rate in Northern Ireland some four out of five GPs do not have specialist knowledge of suicide prevention. The claim comes from Northern Ireland Suicide Prevention Taskforce ...
Northern Ireland News, Sep 10, 2007
Sport Deaths Prompt Call For Screening
The deaths of four young players has prompted calls for heart health screening and greater availability of defibrillators. The latest death, that of Patrick Devlin, 13, from Ardboe, occurred just fou...
Sport Deaths Prompt Call For Screening
The deaths of four young players has prompted calls for heart health screening and greater availability of defibrillators. The latest death, that of Patrick Devlin, 13, from Ardboe, occurred just fou...
Northern Ireland News, Sep 10, 2007
Soldier Sentenced To Three Years
A British soldier who offered to sell ammunition to an undercover police officer has been sentenced to three years in jail. Private Christopher Trussler, 29, had also told the officer that he could o...
Soldier Sentenced To Three Years
A British soldier who offered to sell ammunition to an undercover police officer has been sentenced to three years in jail. Private Christopher Trussler, 29, had also told the officer that he could o...
Northern Ireland News, Sep 10, 2007
Security Contractor Killed In Iraq
A security contractor working in Iraq has been killed in a roadside bombing. Ray Moore, 40, from Tandragee in County Armagh, was killed when a bomb blast hit the armoured vehicle he was travelling in...
Security Contractor Killed In Iraq
A security contractor working in Iraq has been killed in a roadside bombing. Ray Moore, 40, from Tandragee in County Armagh, was killed when a bomb blast hit the armoured vehicle he was travelling in...
Northern Ireland News, Sep 10, 2007
Forensic Tests Carried Out On Castleknock Device
Forensic tests are to be carried out today on a suspect device that was found on Summerton Road in Castleknock, west Dublin, last night. The homemade lunch-box bomb was discovered behind a wall at ar...
Forensic Tests Carried Out On Castleknock Device
Forensic tests are to be carried out today on a suspect device that was found on Summerton Road in Castleknock, west Dublin, last night. The homemade lunch-box bomb was discovered behind a wall at ar...
UK National News, Sep 10, 2007
Barrymore Not Facing Charges
Entertainer Michael Barrymore will not face charges over the death of Stuart Lubbock, according to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). Essex CPS said in a statement it had advised the police that no...
Barrymore Not Facing Charges
Entertainer Michael Barrymore will not face charges over the death of Stuart Lubbock, according to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). Essex CPS said in a statement it had advised the police that no...
UK National News, Sep 10, 2007
Brown To Unveil Plan To Create 500,000 Jobs
Prime Minister Gordon Brown is set to unveil plans to create half a million new jobs in an effort to have "A British job for every British worker." In his first speech to the Trade Union Congress (TU...
Brown To Unveil Plan To Create 500,000 Jobs
Prime Minister Gordon Brown is set to unveil plans to create half a million new jobs in an effort to have "A British job for every British worker." In his first speech to the Trade Union Congress (TU...
UK National News, Sep 10, 2007
World's End Case Collapses
The trial of a convicted paedophile accused of murdering two teenage girls 30 years ago has collapsed at a High Court in Edinburgh. Angus Sinclair, 62, denied killing 17-year-olds Christine Eadie and...
World's End Case Collapses
The trial of a convicted paedophile accused of murdering two teenage girls 30 years ago has collapsed at a High Court in Edinburgh. Angus Sinclair, 62, denied killing 17-year-olds Christine Eadie and...
Recruitment News, Sep 10, 2007
188 Jobs To Be Created In Cork
188 new jobs are to be created in Cork following the announcement that three firms are to set up operations in the city. US software company Solarwinds is to establish its European headquarters in Ma...
188 Jobs To Be Created In Cork
188 new jobs are to be created in Cork following the announcement that three firms are to set up operations in the city. US software company Solarwinds is to establish its European headquarters in Ma...
UK National News, Sep 10, 2007
US Delayed Withdrawal Of British Troops
Britain's withdrawal of its troops from Basra was delayed by five months because of political pressure from the United States for them to stay, according to the UK's top military commander in Iraq. B...
US Delayed Withdrawal Of British Troops
Britain's withdrawal of its troops from Basra was delayed by five months because of political pressure from the United States for them to stay, according to the UK's top military commander in Iraq. B...
Northern Ireland News, Sep 10, 2007
Prosecutors To Consider Madeleine Case
Portuguese police are going ahead with their case against the parents of Madeleine McCann. Police papers outlining the evidence against Gerry and Kate McCann are expected to be passed to the Public P...
Prosecutors To Consider Madeleine Case
Portuguese police are going ahead with their case against the parents of Madeleine McCann. Police papers outlining the evidence against Gerry and Kate McCann are expected to be passed to the Public P...
UK National News, Sep 10, 2007
Sport Deaths Prompt Call For Screening
The deaths of four young players has prompted calls for heart health screening and greater availability of defibrillators. The latest death, that of Patrick Devlin, 13, from Ardboe, occurred just fou...
Sport Deaths Prompt Call For Screening
The deaths of four young players has prompted calls for heart health screening and greater availability of defibrillators. The latest death, that of Patrick Devlin, 13, from Ardboe, occurred just fou...
Northern Ireland News, Sep 10, 2007
Free Presbyterian Political Ties Tested
The Rev. Ian Paisley has announced that he is to stand down as moderator of the Free Presbyterian Church in January. The announcement followed a five-hour meeting of the church's presbytery on Friday...
Free Presbyterian Political Ties Tested
The Rev. Ian Paisley has announced that he is to stand down as moderator of the Free Presbyterian Church in January. The announcement followed a five-hour meeting of the church's presbytery on Friday...
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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.