Northern Ireland News for July 2012 : Page 8
Recruitment News, Jul 18, 2012
Unemployment Up In NI
Unemployment has risen again in Northern Ireland, according to a new report. 400 new people signed on Jobseekers' Allowance here last month and joblessness is now running at 6.9% in Northern Ireland....
Unemployment Up In NI
Unemployment has risen again in Northern Ireland, according to a new report. 400 new people signed on Jobseekers' Allowance here last month and joblessness is now running at 6.9% in Northern Ireland....
UK National News, Jul 18, 2012
Schools Denying Cervical Cancer Vaccine On Religious Grounds
Schoolgirls are being denied a potentially life-saving cervical cancer jab at their schools on religious grounds. The jab guards against two strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV) virus – 16 and 1...
Schools Denying Cervical Cancer Vaccine On Religious Grounds
Schoolgirls are being denied a potentially life-saving cervical cancer jab at their schools on religious grounds. The jab guards against two strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV) virus – 16 and 1...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 18, 2012
Mauritian Newspaper Director Arrested After Michaela Photographs
The editor of a Mauritian newspaper has been arrested after publishing photographs from the crime scene where Michaela McAreavey was found murdered. Editor and director general Imran Hosany has been ...
Mauritian Newspaper Director Arrested After Michaela Photographs
The editor of a Mauritian newspaper has been arrested after publishing photographs from the crime scene where Michaela McAreavey was found murdered. Editor and director general Imran Hosany has been ...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 18, 2012
£300-A-Year Costs For Border Mobile Phone Users
The communications markets regulator has said customers in border counties are paying out £300 a year in roaming charges by accidentally using the signal of Republic of Ireland companies. Ofcom found...
£300-A-Year Costs For Border Mobile Phone Users
The communications markets regulator has said customers in border counties are paying out £300 a year in roaming charges by accidentally using the signal of Republic of Ireland companies. Ofcom found...
Business News, Jul 18, 2012
Small Business Rates Relief Must Go Further - Durkan
SDLP Foyle MLA Mark H Durkan has said that Finance Minister Sammy Wilson’s review of the Small Business Rates Relief scheme must result in a new, improved rating process for businesses. Mr Durkan sai...
Small Business Rates Relief Must Go Further - Durkan
SDLP Foyle MLA Mark H Durkan has said that Finance Minister Sammy Wilson’s review of the Small Business Rates Relief scheme must result in a new, improved rating process for businesses. Mr Durkan sai...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 18, 2012
Other NI News In Brief
County Down Security Alert Roads were closed today after a suspicious object was found in Ballygowan. Army bomb experts were at the scene in Carsons Dale. Shot Fired At Antrim House ...
Other NI News In Brief
County Down Security Alert Roads were closed today after a suspicious object was found in Ballygowan. Army bomb experts were at the scene in Carsons Dale. Shot Fired At Antrim House ...
UK National News, Jul 18, 2012
McDonald's Turn Down Olympic Tax Exemption
Olympic sponsor McDonald's has bowed to an online campaign and declined an Olympic tax break, just days before the start of the Games. The announcement follows an online petition by campaign group 38...
McDonald's Turn Down Olympic Tax Exemption
Olympic sponsor McDonald's has bowed to an online campaign and declined an Olympic tax break, just days before the start of the Games. The announcement follows an online petition by campaign group 38...
Business News, Jul 18, 2012
Co Antrim Firm Sets Out To Double Sales In Next Two Years
Dunloy building company Dixons Contractors is aiming to double its sales by expanding its reach into the Great Britain market with support from Invest Northern Ireland. Dixons is particularly targeti...
Co Antrim Firm Sets Out To Double Sales In Next Two Years
Dunloy building company Dixons Contractors is aiming to double its sales by expanding its reach into the Great Britain market with support from Invest Northern Ireland. Dixons is particularly targeti...
UK National News, Jul 18, 2012
Anonymous Donor Gives Cancer Research UK £10m
An anonymous donation of £10m has been made to Cancer Research UK, the largest the charity has ever received. The same donor, who wishes to remain anonymous, also handed £10m to the University of Sou...
Anonymous Donor Gives Cancer Research UK £10m
An anonymous donation of £10m has been made to Cancer Research UK, the largest the charity has ever received. The same donor, who wishes to remain anonymous, also handed £10m to the University of Sou...
UK National News, Jul 18, 2012
Two National Newspapers Found Guilty Of Contempt Of Court
The Daily Mail and Daily Mirror have been found guilty of contempt of court over their coverage of Levi Bellfield's conviction for the murder of Milly Dowler. The High Court ruled the two national ne...
Two National Newspapers Found Guilty Of Contempt Of Court
The Daily Mail and Daily Mirror have been found guilty of contempt of court over their coverage of Levi Bellfield's conviction for the murder of Milly Dowler. The High Court ruled the two national ne...
UK National News, Jul 18, 2012
Government To Underwrite £50bn Investment
The government says in an effort to lift the economy it will underwrite £50bn of investment in infrastructure and exports. The Chancellor, George Osborne, said he was using the coalition's "hard won ...
Government To Underwrite £50bn Investment
The government says in an effort to lift the economy it will underwrite £50bn of investment in infrastructure and exports. The Chancellor, George Osborne, said he was using the coalition's "hard won ...
UK National News, Jul 18, 2012
M&S Current Account To Cost Up To £20 A Month
Following the recent announcement that retailer Marks and Spencer was to launch an in-store banking service, it has now been said that users of its first current account will be charged a monthly fee ...
M&S Current Account To Cost Up To £20 A Month
Following the recent announcement that retailer Marks and Spencer was to launch an in-store banking service, it has now been said that users of its first current account will be charged a monthly fee ...
UK National News, Jul 18, 2012
Hans Kristian Rausing To Be Charged With Delaying Wife's Burial
Hans Kristian Rausing, heir to the Tetra Pak fortune, will appear in court later today charged with delaying the burial of his wife Eva Rausing. American-born Mrs Rausing was found dead in the bedroo...
Hans Kristian Rausing To Be Charged With Delaying Wife's Burial
Hans Kristian Rausing, heir to the Tetra Pak fortune, will appear in court later today charged with delaying the burial of his wife Eva Rausing. American-born Mrs Rausing was found dead in the bedroo...
UK National News, Jul 18, 2012
Katy Perry And Justin Bieber Spot Cream Ad Banned
The advertising watchdog has banned a TV campaign featuring stars including Katy Perry and Justin Bieber promoting a spot cream. The celebrities appear in a television campaign and on the website of ...
Katy Perry And Justin Bieber Spot Cream Ad Banned
The advertising watchdog has banned a TV campaign featuring stars including Katy Perry and Justin Bieber promoting a spot cream. The celebrities appear in a television campaign and on the website of ...
UK National News, Jul 18, 2012
Other News In Brief
Legionnaires' Outbreak Officially Over The Legionnaires' outbreak in Edinburgh has been officially declared over by public health agencies. The disease has claimed the lives of three men sin...
Other News In Brief
Legionnaires' Outbreak Officially Over The Legionnaires' outbreak in Edinburgh has been officially declared over by public health agencies. The disease has claimed the lives of three men sin...
Business News, Jul 18, 2012
Foster Opens New Invest NI Office In Kurdistan
Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster has opened a new Invest NI office in Kurdistan. The office, in Erbil, will provide in-market support to local companies seeking to do business in Kurdistan. Speakin...
Foster Opens New Invest NI Office In Kurdistan
Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster has opened a new Invest NI office in Kurdistan. The office, in Erbil, will provide in-market support to local companies seeking to do business in Kurdistan. Speakin...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 17, 2012
Renewed Appeal Over Derry Sectarian Attack
Detectives investigating a sectarian attack that left a Derry man in a vegetative state say they know the identities of some of those involved. But on the anniversary of the assault, police have appe...
Renewed Appeal Over Derry Sectarian Attack
Detectives investigating a sectarian attack that left a Derry man in a vegetative state say they know the identities of some of those involved. But on the anniversary of the assault, police have appe...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 17, 2012
NI Loses More Than A Third Of Its EU Money - Thinktank
Northern Ireland is losing out on the money it pays in to the EU, a leading eurosceptic thinktank has claimed. Research by Open Europe found that taxpayers here were paying £1.58 into the EU for each...
NI Loses More Than A Third Of Its EU Money - Thinktank
Northern Ireland is losing out on the money it pays in to the EU, a leading eurosceptic thinktank has claimed. Research by Open Europe found that taxpayers here were paying £1.58 into the EU for each...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 17, 2012
Belfast American Football Team Lift All-Ireland Trophy
An American Football team from east Belfast have lifted the Irish national trophy for the first time after an unbeaten season. The Belfast Trojans admitted their rivals the University of Limerick Vik...
Belfast American Football Team Lift All-Ireland Trophy
An American Football team from east Belfast have lifted the Irish national trophy for the first time after an unbeaten season. The Belfast Trojans admitted their rivals the University of Limerick Vik...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 17, 2012
Mauritian Newspaper Apologises For Michaela Photographs
The newspaper which published photographs of Michaela McAreavey's dead body on Sunday has apologised. The Mauritian Sunday Times (no connection to any British or Irish newspaper) published photograph...
Mauritian Newspaper Apologises For Michaela Photographs
The newspaper which published photographs of Michaela McAreavey's dead body on Sunday has apologised. The Mauritian Sunday Times (no connection to any British or Irish newspaper) published photograph...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 17, 2012
New Police Ombudsman Pledges Independence
A new Police Ombudsman has taken up his position and vowed to keep the role independent. Dr Michael Maguire steps into the post as head of the police complaints system in the wake of the last Ombudsm...
New Police Ombudsman Pledges Independence
A new Police Ombudsman has taken up his position and vowed to keep the role independent. Dr Michael Maguire steps into the post as head of the police complaints system in the wake of the last Ombudsm...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 17, 2012
Police Warning After North Down Holiday Burglaries
Police have asked householders in north Down to be security-conscious over the holiday period. It follows a spate of opportunistic burglaries in Helen's Bay, at houses where the occupier was away and...
Police Warning After North Down Holiday Burglaries
Police have asked householders in north Down to be security-conscious over the holiday period. It follows a spate of opportunistic burglaries in Helen's Bay, at houses where the occupier was away and...
UK National News, Jul 17, 2012
G4S Chief Executive Regrets Taking Olympic Contract
The chief executive of security firm G4S, Nick Buckles, has said he regrets that the firm ever took on the Olympic security contract. Telling the Home Affairs Select Committee that G4S had taken on t...
G4S Chief Executive Regrets Taking Olympic Contract
The chief executive of security firm G4S, Nick Buckles, has said he regrets that the firm ever took on the Olympic security contract. Telling the Home Affairs Select Committee that G4S had taken on t...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 17, 2012
Small Business Rate Relief Reviewed
Northern Ireland's Finance Minister, Sammy Wilson, has announced a review of the Small Business Rate Relief scheme in an attempt to see how well it is helping small Northern Irish firms and how much i...
Small Business Rate Relief Reviewed
Northern Ireland's Finance Minister, Sammy Wilson, has announced a review of the Small Business Rate Relief scheme in an attempt to see how well it is helping small Northern Irish firms and how much i...
UK National News, Jul 17, 2012
Knife Found Near Bodies Of Father And Children
The bodies of a father and his three children have been found in a disused quarry in Shropshire. 35-year-old Ceri Fuller, from Milkwall, near Coleford, had gone missing on Monday with his son Sam, 12...
Knife Found Near Bodies Of Father And Children
The bodies of a father and his three children have been found in a disused quarry in Shropshire. 35-year-old Ceri Fuller, from Milkwall, near Coleford, had gone missing on Monday with his son Sam, 12...
UK National News, Jul 17, 2012
Two Bodies Discovered In Buried Car
The bodies of a man and a woman have been found in a car buried under a pile of earth near a partly-collapsed tunnel in Dorset. The bodies were discovered in the car near the Beaminster Tunnel on Mon...
Two Bodies Discovered In Buried Car
The bodies of a man and a woman have been found in a car buried under a pile of earth near a partly-collapsed tunnel in Dorset. The bodies were discovered in the car near the Beaminster Tunnel on Mon...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 17, 2012
Foyle Cup Kicks Off
A youth football tournament has kicked off in Londonderry, with competitors coming from as far afield as Canada to take part. More than 160 teams from near and far will compete in the 2012 Foyle Cup,...
Foyle Cup Kicks Off
A youth football tournament has kicked off in Londonderry, with competitors coming from as far afield as Canada to take part. More than 160 teams from near and far will compete in the 2012 Foyle Cup,...
Recruitment News, Jul 17, 2012
Additional €2.25bn Domestic Infrastructure Stimulus Announced To Create Jobs
The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Mr. Brendan Howlin T.D., has today, 17 July 2012, announced the Government's plans for an additional €2.25 billion investment in job-rich public infrast...
Additional €2.25bn Domestic Infrastructure Stimulus Announced To Create Jobs
The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Mr. Brendan Howlin T.D., has today, 17 July 2012, announced the Government's plans for an additional €2.25 billion investment in job-rich public infrast...
UK National News, Jul 17, 2012
Man Who Made Explosives Described By Judge As A 'Crank'
A man has been jailed for two-and-a-half years after admitting making explosives in a lock-up garage. 52-year-old Martin Counsell was arrested in May after police found the explosives in a garage in ...
Man Who Made Explosives Described By Judge As A 'Crank'
A man has been jailed for two-and-a-half years after admitting making explosives in a lock-up garage. 52-year-old Martin Counsell was arrested in May after police found the explosives in a garage in ...
UK National News, Jul 17, 2012
MPs Urge Spy Agencies To Wage Cyber Warfare
In the interests of national security, MPs have urged the UK’s spy agencies and military to wage cyber warfare. Saying that defending against cyber attacks is no longer enough, the Intelligence and S...
MPs Urge Spy Agencies To Wage Cyber Warfare
In the interests of national security, MPs have urged the UK’s spy agencies and military to wage cyber warfare. Saying that defending against cyber attacks is no longer enough, the Intelligence and S...
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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.