Northern Ireland News for August 2010 : Page 15

Northern Ireland News, Aug 2, 2010
Snooker Legend's 'Fame Too Much'
Twice world champion Alex Higgins' personal life was 'snookered' by his sporting success. That's according to the Dean of Belfast, Dr Houston McKelvey, who also criticised media coverage of the flamb...
Northern Ireland News, Aug 2, 2010
Adams Meets Loyalist Parades Group
There's to be a 'groundbreaking' cross community meeting over parades today. Gerry Adams is to meet the North and West Belfast Parades Forum along with Gerry Kelly, the North Belfast Sinn Fein MLA an...
Northern Ireland News, Aug 2, 2010
'Greenlight' For Dundrod's Global Audience
Northern Ireland motorbike racing is really accelerating with news of a major agreement for TV coverage that is to introduce a global audience to the exciting sport in the Lisburn area. Greenlight Te...
Recruitment News, Aug 2, 2010
Jobs On Way At Quarry Sports Centre
Plans for Co Antrim's Magheramorne Quarry to be redeveloped into Ireland's first word-class recreational attraction have been approved. NI Environment Minister Sammy Wilson approved the proposals su...
UK National News, Aug 2, 2010
Sex Offender 'Watch' Underway
A scheme that helps keep children safe by allowing parents to ask police whether people with access to their family are sex offenders rolls-out nationally today, the Home Secretary has announced. The...
Business News, Aug 2, 2010
Second Airport Could Land In South-East
There's a huge boost for the construction sector set to wing its way into Ireland's south-east region with news that the area could soon see a second airport being built. Plans for the development of...
UK National News, Aug 2, 2010
Illegal Immigrants In Focus As Centre Opens
A UK-wide crackdown on illegal working, sham marriages, bogus colleges and organised immigration crime has come to fruition with this week's opening of two new wings at Harmondsworth Immigration Remov...
UK National News, Aug 2, 2010
Pre-Notting Hill Carnival Operation Underway
A four-week crackdown on troublemakers begins today as the Met Police get ready for trouble-makers ahead of this year's Notting Hill Carnival. They said that the eyes of the world turn to west London...
UK National News, Aug 2, 2010
Girl Airlifted After Fife Cliff Fall
There was high drama in Scotland at the weekend after a young girl suffered a head injury after she fell at a tourist attraction on the Fife coast. She was airlifted to hospital after Forth Coastguar...
Northern Ireland News, Aug 2, 2010
Ex-Bacon Factory Boost For Suffolk
People around the Suffolk area of Co Antrim will be really 'taking home the bacon' soon with news that a former pork processing facility is to be the location for a new, purpose built cross-community ...
UK National News, Aug 2, 2010
Other UK News In Brief
Tombstoning Alert Issued Youngsters in East Yorkshire are being warned about the dangers of diving off rocks and cliffs following a number of recent reports. Bridlington police said they had been cal...
Northern Ireland News, Aug 2, 2010
Omagh Buses Seized Over Fuel
Enquiries are ongoing after officers from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) seized vehicles from a coach hire company in Omagh. It happened last week as part of ongoing activity targeting fuel fraud. The ...
Northern Ireland News, Aug 2, 2010
Casualty Response Figures Improve
Accident & Emergency response times have been improving across Northern Ireland. Figures just released from the Department of Health have shown a significant improvement in emergency care waiting tim...
Northern Ireland News, Aug 2, 2010
Woman Killed In Cookstown Crash
A 27-year-old woman has died in hospital following a road traffic collision on the Old Coagh Road in Cookstown. Janet Marie Harney from the Cookstown area was the driver of one of three vehicles invo...
Northern Ireland News, Aug 2, 2010
Quarry To Become Extreme Sports Centre
Plans for Co Antrim's Magheramorne Quarry to be redeveloped into Ireland's first word-class recreational attraction have been approved. NI Environment Minister Sammy Wilson approved the proposals su...
Business News, Aug 2, 2010
Merchant Hotel Opens £16m Extension
Last weekend saw the first guests arrive at a 'New Chapter' in Northern Ireland's Merchant Hotel. The five star establishment, set in the heart of Belfast's Cathedral Quarter, revealed its £16m ext...
Business News, Aug 2, 2010
'Greenlight' For Dundrod's Global Audience
Northern Ireland motorbike racing is really accelerating with news of a major agreement for TV coverage that is to introduce a global audience to the exciting sport in the Lisburn area. Greenlight Te...
Recruitment News, Aug 2, 2010
Jobs Boost As Hotel Opens Extension
Last weekend saw the first guests arrive at the 'New Chapter' in Northern Ireland's Merchant Hotel. The five star establishment revealed for the first time its £16m extension that incorporates a ne...
Northern Ireland News, Aug 2, 2010
Other NI News In Brief
Disappeared Link To Stand-Off The BBC has reported today that the man who was arrested after a four-hour long stand-off with police at a property in Belfast is a son of Jean McConville, one of the pe...