Northern Ireland News for October 2008 : Page 7

UK National News, Oct 21, 2008
Six Family Members Dead Following M6 Crash
A family of six people have been killed when their car burst into flames in a collision with other vehicles on a motorway in Cheshire, police have said. Four young children travelling with their pare...
UK National News, Oct 21, 2008
Police Investigate Fatal Stabbing Of Teen
Police in Liverpool are appealing for information following the fatal stabbing of a 16-year-old boy outside a youth club. The teenager, identified by police as Joseph Lappin, was with two friends whe...
UK National News, Oct 21, 2008
Five Terror Suspects Arrested In Dawn Swoops
Police in Birmingham have arrested five terrorism suspects during early morning raids across the city. The men, believed to be aged between 29 and 36, are being held under anti-terrorism law. Polic...
UK National News, Oct 21, 2008
SNP Calls For Lockerbie Bomber Trial To Be Brought Forward
Following reports that Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi is in the advanced stages of cancer, SNP MSP Alex Neil has stressed the importance of holding a "timeous" appeal trial. Mr Neil has calle...
UK National News, Oct 21, 2008
Gap Between Rich And Poor Narrowed
The gap in wealth between the rich and poor has narrowed in the UK since 2000, according to a new report from the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The head of the OECD's ...
UK National News, Oct 21, 2008
Other News In Brief
Body Found In Motherwell A murder inquiry is underway following the discovery of a man's body in Motherwell at the weekend. James Taylor, 29, from Wester Hailes, Edinburgh, had been released from Sau...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 21, 2008
Police Appeal Over South Belfast Rape
Police have appealed for information about an early morning rape in south Belfast. The 20-year-old woman was attacked near the junction between Agincourt Avenue and the Ormeau Road in the early hour...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 21, 2008
City Centre Residents Win Free Parking Scheme
Just months after holding informal consultations with people living in parts of inner city areas of Belfast who are plagued by parking problems caused by non-residents using their streets for free all...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 21, 2008
MLA Calls For More Commitment, After Minister's £4m Northwest Funding
Margaret Ritchie's £4m allocation to community projects in the north west has been criticised by a local Sinn Fein MLA - who claims it won't go far enough. Yesterday, the Social Development Minist...
UK National News, Oct 21, 2008
Victoria Couchman's Father Released On Bail
The father of a 19-year-old woman, whose skeletal remains were discovered in woodlands, has been released on bail. Tony Couchman, 45, was arrested on suspicion of murder on Saturday. He was released ...
UK National News, Oct 21, 2008
UK Is World Leader In Offshore Wind
The UK has overtaken Denmark to become the world's number one for wind farms built offshore, with 597MW fully constructed. The achievement has been made possible after building work finished at Centri...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 21, 2008
Travel Costs Are Just 'Not Fare'
It has been revealed that the Consumer Council for Northern Ireland has written to Translink to urge a review of its charges. The consumer watchdog wants to bring down ticket prices and has called fo...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 21, 2008
Other NI News In Brief
Man Charged As Road Toll Mounts A 20-year-old man has now been charged with causing death by dangerous driving as well as not having a driving licence in connection with the death of a pensioner invo...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 21, 2008
Health Hygiene Highlighted
The NI Health Minister, Michael McGimpsey, is hoping that Ulster's health workers will catch the bug - 'the cleanliness bug' - with the launch a new, hi-tech, online manual for healthcare staff to hel...
UK National News, Oct 21, 2008
Last Picture Show For Many As Cinemas Go Digital
Modern digital technology may close around half of all Britain's cinemas in the next five years. The cost of the switchover from celluloid film to digital technology will mean the survival of only th...
Recruitment News, Oct 21, 2008
Diversity Plan Launched
Workers in the Northern Ireland Civil Service are set to benefit now that the organisation has published its definitive Employment Equality and Diversity Plan. It identifies the key equality and dive...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 20, 2008
No Informer Access For Devolved Security Minister
Any devolved security minister at Stormont would not be privy to details on police informers, incumbent NIO direct rule Minister Paul Goggins (pictured) has said. Mr Goggins said any future minister ...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 20, 2008
Roads Claim More Lives
The roads have claimed another victim, this time a man in his 20s who was killed in a car crash on the Ballydonaghy Road in Crumlin on Sunday morning. The crash was reported to police around 8am afte...
UK National News, Oct 20, 2008
Cannibal Chef Jailed For A Minimum Of 30 Years
A chef who murdered his boyfriend before cutting a section of flesh off his thighs and cooking and eating it has been jailed for a minimum of 30 years. The first winner of Mr Gay UK, Antony Morley, 3...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 20, 2008
'Tax Dodgers' Camera Catches Roads' Minister
A mistaken belief that it was permissible to ride a vehicle to a garage to have it serviced for an MOT test has led to the Stormont Minister responsible for roads being fined for riding one of his sev...
Recruitment News, Oct 20, 2008
Wholesaler Announces 300 New Irish Jobs
The Barry Group, which runs Costcutter and Quik-Pick stores across Ireland, has announced expansion plans that will see the creation of 300 new jobs. Last year the group turned over €691m, and will ...
UK National News, Oct 20, 2008
Other News In Brief
Gross Mortgage Lending Drops In September Gross mortgage lending reached an estimated £17.7 billion in September, a decline of 10% from August and 42% from September last year, according to the Counc...
Recruitment News, Oct 20, 2008
Coleraine Jobs Alert
A UUP East Londonderry Assembly member, David McClarty. has warned that news of 33 jobs being shed at the AVX plant in Coleraine could be just the start of more bad news for the town on the employment...
Business News, Oct 20, 2008
UK 'Already In Recession', Forecasters Say
Britain's economy is already in recession, and is due to shrink by 1% in the next year, according to expert analysts. The Ernst & Young ITEM Club said the UK economy has "deteriorated dramatically" i...
UK National News, Oct 20, 2008
UK Aid Worker Gunned Down In Kabul
A British charity worker has been gunned down in the Afghan capital - in an assassination reportedly carried out by the Taliban. Gayle Williams, who worked for Christian charity Serve Afghanistan, w...
UK National News, Oct 20, 2008
Father Questioned Over Woodland Body Find
Detectives investigating the murder of a 19-year-old woman, whose skeletal remains were discovered in woodland, have been granted more time to question her father. Sussex Police who arrested the 45-y...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 20, 2008
Troubles' Truth Commission May Sit For Five Years
A new Commission to examine incidents from the Troubles is being recommended by the group looking at ways of dealing with these past atrocities. Working within a fixed five-year period, terrorists wo...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 20, 2008
'Abuse Of Rights' At Movilla, Says Children's Commissioner
The Northern Ireland Children's Commissioner has branded strike action by teachers at a Newtownards school an "abuse of children's rights". Speaking on the industrial action, sparked by an alleged a...
UK National News, Oct 20, 2008
£1.2m Of Cocaine Found On Cruise Liner
More than £1 million of cocaine has been discovered during a raid on a luxury cruise liner, customs officials have said. HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) investigators and UK order Agency officers seized ...
UK National News, Oct 20, 2008
Witness Appeal After Father Is Shot Dead In Bed
Detectives are appealing for witnesses to contact them after a man was shot dead in his bed. Danny King, 51, also as known as Shep, was believed to be in bed with his wife at Medina Road, Ditton, whe...