Northern Ireland News for October 2013

Business News, Oct 31, 2013
Invest NI Helps Roonivoolin Develop Skin Lotion
Ballycastle-based Roonivoolin Naturals Ltd has been assisted by Invest Northern Ireland to develop an innovative skin lotion, Caraderm Skincare, using seaweed harvested from the shores of Co Antrim. ...
UK National News, Oct 31, 2013
Brooks And Coulson 'Had A Six Year Affair'
Former News of the World Editors Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson were having an affair for at least six years, a jury at the Old Bailey has been told. Prosecutor Andrew Edis told jurors that in 2004,...
UK National News, Oct 31, 2013
UK Universities Begin One-Day Strike
Lecturers and staff in higher education have begun a one-day strike in opposition to a 1% pay offer. The action began at midnight as security guards at Glasgow Caledonian University started a day of ...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 31, 2013
Dr Haass Meets Taoiseach
Dr Richard Haass has met with Irish Taoiseach Enda Kenny in Dublin today as part of his chairing of a panel to examine the way issues surrounding flags, emblems, parades and the past can be dealt with...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 31, 2013
'Access To Finance' Panel Announced
Northern Ireland's Finance and Enterprise Ministers have announced a new 'Access to Finance Implementation Panel' that will seek to facilitate bank lending for local businesses. Finance Minister Simo...
UK National News, Oct 31, 2013
Queen Signs Off Press Regulation
The Queen has signed off on a royal charter that will see a landmark reform of the way the press is regulated in Britain. The reform was finalised by the privy council on Wednesday, despite last-minu...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 31, 2013
Pipe Bomb May Have Been Thrown At Police
A pipe bomb may have been thrown at PSNI officers in north Belfast, it has been revealed. The announcement follows the discovery of the device during a security alert on the Whitewell Road on Wednesd...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 31, 2013
Universities Begin Strike
Lecturers and workers at Northern Ireland's two universities have begun a strike as part of UK-wide action over pay and work loads.The one-day strike is being held by staff who belong to the Universit...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 31, 2013
Equality Commission Enters LGBT Debate
Northern Ireland's Equality Commission has told the BBC that Stormont needs to take action to protect the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people living in Northern Ireland. Th...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 31, 2013
64 Jobs Announced For Sainsbury's Upgrade
64 jobs are to be created at a Sainsbury's supermarket in L'Derry as a result of a multi-million pound upgrade and new online delivery service. The move will bring the total number employed at the St...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 31, 2013
NI Rail Use Increases
Northern Ireland's railway service has seen a 9% increase in usage during the second quarter of 2013. The latest edition of the Northern Ireland Road and Rail Transport Statistics has been published ...
UK National News, Oct 31, 2013
Batch Of Canned Sliced Beef Contains Horse DNA - FSA
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has been informed that a batch of canned sliced beef that was found to contain horse DNA has been withdrawn from sale. Horse meat is not identified in the ingredients...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 31, 2013
Funding Unlocked For L'Derry's Vacant Spaces
Funding has been approved for a project to bring empty commercial space in the centre of L'Derry back into use. Announcing the funding, Social Development Minister Nelson McCausland said: "Like other...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 31, 2013
C.S. Lewis Festival To Enchant East Belfast
A festival celebrating the life and work of one of Northern Ireland's most famous writers, C.S. Lewis, is to be held in the author's birthplace of east Belfast. A colourful week of song, drama, perfo...
UK National News, Oct 31, 2013
UK House Prices Continue To Increase
A new survey has said house prices in the UK are now 5.8% higher than this time last year. The latest study by Nationwide said prices increased by 1% in October to bring the average price of a home ...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 31, 2013
Other News In Brief
12 July Rioter Jailed A man who jumped on top of a police Landrover during 12 July riots in Belfast has been jailed for three months. James Moore, 30, of Hillhall Park in Lisburn, admitted ch...
UK National News, Oct 31, 2013
Wanted Man Arrested In Solihull
A man wanted by police for burglary and failing to appear at court for assault and harassment has been arrested. John Buckley was arrested in the early hours of this morning (31 Oct) from an address ...
UK National News, Oct 31, 2013
Fifteen People Arrested In Aberdeen
Police in Scotland have arrested 15 people as part of Operation Maple, the BBC has reported. Operation Maple has seen almost £1.2m of drugs seized and around 600 people arrested since its launch in ...
UK National News, Oct 31, 2013
Man Stabbed To Death In Manchester
Greater Manchester Police has confirmed a man has been stabbed to death and another has been injured following an attack in the city. Both men, who are believed to be in their 20s, were found by eme...
Recruitment News, Oct 31, 2013
StorageCraft To Create 30 New Jobs
Cork South Central Fine Gael TD, Jerry Buttimer, has said that the decision of StorageCraft Technology Corporation to establish its international headquarters in Cork reaffirms the city as an IT hub. ...
UK National News, Oct 31, 2013
Robber Who Shot Fife Victims Jailed
A 20-year-old man who shot two women in Fife during an attempted robbery has been sentenced to over five years in jail. Oatis Fowler was sentenced at the High Court in Edinburgh on Tuesday, having pr...
UK National News, Oct 31, 2013
Other News In Brief
Merseyside Police Track Stolen Pendant Merseyside Police have released a picture of a pendant that was stolen following a burglary in Maghull earlier this month. The incident began when offic...
Recruitment News, Oct 30, 2013
Sports Science Firm Creates 24 Jobs
Kitman Labs, Ireland's newest sports science technology company, has announced that it is to create 24 new jobs after it successfully raised €475,000, in a combination of private investment and matche...
Business News, Oct 30, 2013
Enterprise Ireland Announces SPRINT Details
Enterprise Ireland has announced details of SPRINT - an initiative designed to help the founders of start-up companies in the digital content sector to shorten the timescale from product development t...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 30, 2013
Remembering Greysteel
A memorial service is to be held in Greysteel, County L'Derry this evening, to remember eight people who were murdered in a bar during a UFF gun attack in 1993. A gang of men entered the Rising Sun b...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 30, 2013
South Belfast Bomb 'Made Safe'
Army bomb experts have made safe a 'viable device' that was found in the Village area of south Belfast on Tuesday evening. Police were alerted over a suspect object discovered at Kilburn Street, off ...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 30, 2013
Civil Servants Average 10 Days' Sick Leave
Staff in the Northern Ireland Civil service took on average over ten days each of sick leave over the period 2012/13, indicating an increase on the previous year. The Northern Ireland Statistics and ...
UK National News, Oct 30, 2013
Publishers Lose Regulation Charter Injunction
Ministers will go to the Privy Council to seek the Queen's approval for a Royal charter on UK press regulation, after newspaper publishers lost their bid to stop the move. The publishers had taken th...
UK National News, Oct 30, 2013
Police Still Searching For Child Killer
A convicted child killer is still on the run after absconding from HMP Hewell in Worcestershire on Monday. Police are continuing to search for 56-year-old Alan John Giles who fled from an "open" sect...
UK National News, Oct 30, 2013
Supreme Court Rule Against Govt In Work Scheme Appeal
The Supreme Court has upheld a ruling that the government's flagship "back to work" scheme was legally flawed. Ministers had brought a case to the Supreme Court in an effort to overturn an earlier ru...