Northern Ireland News for November 2010 : Page 3

Business News, Nov 26, 2010
NI Farm Payments 'Eclipse UK'
With a series of NI meetings due to be held in the New Year for farmers to discuss the coming reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), a senior European Union official has been outlining the EC...
UK National News, Nov 26, 2010
Computer Hacker Who Posed As Student Sentenced
A ruthless hacker who posed as a student in order to unlawfully gain access to the emails of hundreds of unsuspecting "fellow students" has been given a suspended prison sentence and ordered to pay ov...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 26, 2010
'Boys' To Pass Ardoyne On Derry Road
A loyal order feeder parade by the Apprentice Boys will be allowed to pass the nationalist Ardoyne shops on the main Crumlin Road next weekend. However, a contentious lodge, the ABOD Ligoniel Walker ...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 26, 2010
Eco Homeowners' Heating Bill '£5 Weekly'
NI's first 'A Grade' eco friendly private development has been welcomed by an Executive Minister - and hailed as 'heartening' because it is offering heating costs of just £5 weekly. Environment Minis...
Business News, Nov 26, 2010
Conway Mill 'Hope For The Future': McGuinness
The Stormont Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness has described the £5m Conway Mill project in west Befast as a 'shining example' of how NI's economy can work in a sustainable way. Speaking at the...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 26, 2010
Airport Residents Concerned At City Move
Local residents have voiced their concern at the decision by airline bmibaby to switch its operations from Belfast International Airport to George Best Belfast City Airport. The change of gateway air...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 26, 2010
NI Immigrant Influx Slows
The number of people coming to NI from Europe and other places has slowed. Official figures published on Thursday showed that immigration into Northern Ireland has slowed, it has been revealed. The ...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 26, 2010
Conway Mill 'Hope For The Future': McGuinness
The Stormont Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness has described the £5m Conway Mill project in west Befast as a 'shining example' of how NI's economy can work in a sustainable way. Speaking at the...
UK National News, Nov 26, 2010
Other UK News In Brief
Turkey Farmer Dies Norfolk turkey tycoon Bernard Matthews has died at the age of 80, his company has confirmed. He began his business more than 60 years ago - with 20 eggs and a second-hand incubator...
Recruitment News, Nov 26, 2010
Dáil Four Year Plan 'Failing Jobs'
The Irish Government's highly controversial Four Year Plan has been met with hostility by leading unions, who claim the plan is no more than the continuation of "failed policies". The 140-page plan d...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 26, 2010
Boiler Servicing Supports Cancer Charity
A local NI heating provider has teamed up with the Ulster Cancer Foundation (UCF) to launch a new 'Community Pay and Donate Scheme'. By booking a domestic gas or oil boiler service with Solv Group ...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 26, 2010
Dáil Four Year Plan 'Failed Policy'
The Irish Government's highly controversial Four Year Plan has been met with hostility by leading unions, who claim the plan is no more than the continuation of "failed policies". SIPTU General Presi...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 26, 2010
Ballymena Roads' Progress Reported
NI Transport Minister Conor Murphy has welcomed Roads Service's progress on investment totalling £6.2million in the Ballymena Borough Council area this year. The Minister said: "Roads Service is comm...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 26, 2010
Other NI News In Brief
UCF AGM Success A local cancer charity the Ulster Cancer Foundation (UCF) has held its Annual General Meeting with special guest lecturer, Chief Medical Officer, Dr Michael McBride who spoke ...
UK National News, Nov 25, 2010
Police Tactics Defended Over Fee Protest
The Met Police Commissioner has defended tactics employed in London yesterday to control tuition fee protests. He also added that they "got it wrong" during the NUS March on November 10. As tension...
UK National News, Nov 25, 2010
Strike Goes Ahead For Scottish Refs
A strike will go ahead this weekend as planned by football referees in Scotland. However the Scottish Football Association (SFA) still expects that some games will be played. Foreign officials, main...
UK National News, Nov 25, 2010
A Woman Raped Every Ten Minutes
Each week 1,000 women are subjected to rape or attempted rape, while one in four women have been affected by domestic violence. To help tackle the problem, Public Health Minister Anne Milton has laun...
UK National News, Nov 25, 2010
Full Steam Ahead For Thameslink Programme
The Department for Transport (DfT) has confirmed that the Thameslink Programme will go ahead in full. The Secretary of State for Transport, Mr Philip Hammond, said: "Over the next four years, we wil...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 25, 2010
Gas Probe In Chinese Restaurant Tragedy
Freezing winter weather coupled with a failed power supply and inadequate ventilation may have claimed a further fumes' victim. The indications today are that the death of a man found collapsed at th...
UK National News, Nov 25, 2010
Tyrone Man Arrested Over Fuel Laundering Plant
A fuel laundering plant capable of producing over nine million litres of illicit fuel a year, evading almost £6 million, has been dismantled by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC). A man from Co Tyrone has ...
Business News, Nov 25, 2010
Robinson Pushes For Corporation Tax Cut
The Stormont First Minister, Peter Robinson has acknowledged that the financial crisis in the Irish Republic will have an impact on the whole of Ireland, due to the levels of cross-border trade and in...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 25, 2010
Robinson Pushes For Corporation Tax Cut
The Stormont First Minister, Peter Robinson has acknowledged that the financial crisis in the Irish Republic will have an impact on the whole of Ireland, due to the levels of cross-border trade and in...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 25, 2010
Derry DPP Meeting Abandoned
A District Policing Partnership (DPP) meeting in Londonderry had to be abandoned last night after a protest by dissident republicans. About 50 people blew horns and chanted slogans at the meeting in ...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 25, 2010
Dumping Of Tonnes Of Fish Angers MLA
A leading politician, the Ulster Unionist Deputy Leader, John McCallister, has hit out over tonnes of fish being caught and then tipped dead back into the sea as waste. He has expressed his dismay at...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 25, 2010
NI Casualty Staff 'Under Increasing Attack'
As the future of accident and emergency cover at a major Co Down hospital hung in the balance this week, there has been a call to tackle increasing levels of violence directed against A&E staff. As t...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 25, 2010
Dublin Shooting Victims Were 'Set Up'
Gardaí in North Dublin have said they have reason to believe that the two men shot in a Finglas petrol station were 'set up' to be murdered. The victims, Mark Noonan, 23, from O'Devaney Gardens and G...
UK National News, Nov 25, 2010
Atlas Maps Out Variation In NHS
A tool to help the NHS identify unwarranted variation in healthcare services across England was published today by the Department of Health. The NHS Atlas of Variation highlights the amount each Prim...
UK National News, Nov 25, 2010
Parking Charges Could Hit High Street Trade
Councils could kill off high street trade if they hike town centre parking charges, a small business support organisation has warned. In recent months, local authorities across the UK have proposed h...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 25, 2010
Tyrone Arrest Over Fuel Laundering
A border fuel laundering plant capable of producing over nine million litres of illicit fuel a year, evading almost £6M, has been dismantled by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC). A man from Co Tyrone has ...
UK National News, Nov 25, 2010
Workplace Asthma Costs UK At Least £100 Million A Year 


Workplace asthma costs the UK at least £100 million a year, and may be as high as £135 million, reveals research published online in Thorax. 

 An estimated 3,000 new cases of occupationa...