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UK National News, Jul 10, 2008
Multiple Fatalities In Leicestershire Crash
Six people have died in a collision between a car and a lorry in Leicestershire, police have confirmed. The A607 near Melton Mowbray was closed in both directions following the crash. Police were ca...
UK National News, Jul 2, 2008
Fuel Protest Hits London
Disgruntled lorry drivers have arrived in London to demonstrate against the rocketing price of fuel. Part of the A40 has been partly closed as groups of between 20 and 30 vehicles will park on it whi...
UK National News, Jun 24, 2008
M1 Crash Driver Jailed
The driver of a coach that overturned at an M1 service station has been jailed. Leslie Weinberg, 35, has been sentenced to 10 months imprisonment and disqualified for four years. He has also been fi...
UK National News, Jun 5, 2008
Fuel Price Protest Hits Motorists
Rush hour motorists will face headaches today as motorcyclists stage a 'go-slow' protest at soaring fuel prices. Hundreds of motorcyclists congregated at Birch services between junctions 18 and 19 on...
Northern Ireland News, May 30, 2008
Security Firm Targeted By Tiger Kidnapping
A substantial sum of money - believed to be around £200,000 - has been handed over to so-called 'Tiger' kidnappers. A mum and her four-year-old son were kidnapped for a ransom demand, police have rev...
UK National News, May 28, 2008
Brown Talks Fuel With Industry Chiefs
The Prime Minister and the Chancellor are to meet oil industry leaders today to discuss spiralling fuel costs. Yesterday lorry drivers staged protests to demand cuts on diesel to salvage the British ...
Northern Ireland News, May 23, 2008
Lorry Hijackers Sought
A dramatic hijacking incident in Co Antrim has been revealed. An articulated lorry driver was driven away in the boot of a car after his vehicle was taken near the port of Larne in the early hours of...
Northern Ireland News, May 12, 2008
Biker Death Is Year's Fourth Tragedy
The death of an injured motorcyclist at the weekend brought to four the number of such road users killed this year on local roads, while at the same time, an inquest has been told of how excessive spe...
Northern Ireland News, May 2, 2008
Deliberate Blaze Closes Roads
After tackling a major fire in Co Antrim - caused accidentally yesterday - firefighters were last night also tasked to another blaze, this time in Co Down, which turned out to be deliberate - and cont...
Northern Ireland News, Apr 24, 2008
Tobacco Haul Is Year's Biggest
Detectives are investigating a major contraband discovery - which has turned out to be the biggest seizure of its kind for a year. Along with customs officers, the police had undertaken a major opera...
UK National News, Apr 14, 2008
Five Britons Killed In Ecuador Bus Crash
Five British women have been killed in a bus crash in Ecuador. The women - four gap year students and a tour guide - died when the tour bus they were travelling in collided with a lorry as they trave...
Northern Ireland News, Apr 1, 2008
Ambulance Crew Involved In M1 Crash
An ambulance crew has been involved in a crash in Belfast as they were attempting to resuscitate a young baby on the M1 motorway. The crew had been flagged down on Kennedy Way to help an infant who h...
Northern Ireland News, Mar 12, 2008
Storm-Hit Power Restored
Electricity has been restored to the homes across Northern Ireland which were left without power following overnight gales. Northern Ireland Electricity has said most of the homes affected are in cou...
Northern Ireland News, Mar 10, 2008
Second School Bus Crash Reported
Just weeks after a tragic school bus crash left a local child dead, a pupil from the same school has been taken to hospital after a collision involving a school bus, a 4x4 vehicle and a lorry. The ac...
Northern Ireland News, Feb 28, 2008
School Bus Death Girl's Cousin 'Critical'
As Grainne Mallon, the nine-year-old cousin of the schoolgirl killed in yesterday's tragic school bus accident battles for life in hospital, it has emerged that hospital staff were moved to tears when...
Northern Ireland News, Feb 27, 2008
School Bus Death Teen Named
The teenage girl who died today after a lorry crashed into a school bus forcing it into a nearby garden has been named locally as 16-year-old Nicola Murray, a pupil at St Ciaran's High School in Bally...
Northern Ireland News, Feb 25, 2008
Meath Man Killed In Keady Crash Named
Police have released the name of a man who died following a road accident in Co Armagh on Friday last and are also seeking help in finding the driver who has left a nine-year-old in hospital after a s...
Northern Ireland News, Feb 20, 2008
IRA Hunger Striker Dies - 30 Years On
Two thousand people watched the funeral of former hunger striker, IRA commander and later Sinn Fein critic, Brendan Hughes yesterday. The 59-year-old Belfast man was taken into hospital last week aft...
Northern Ireland News, Feb 19, 2008
Apology Over Files That 'Fell Off The Back Of A Lorry'
While slamming a fellow MLA's motives for revealing the issue in the first place, the NI Assembly Education Minister, Caitriona Ruane has now apologised after personal files were found dumped at a Co ...
Northern Ireland News, Feb 18, 2008
Dutch Cattle Brought Blue Tongue to Ulster
Imports from the Netherlands are being blamed for Northern Ireland's now more threatening outbreak of the cattle illness, blue tongue disease. Things are being taken very seriously with yet more catt...
Northern Ireland News, Feb 12, 2008
Derry Lotto Winner Banks Cheque
Derry has hit lucky yet again as a local man was today celebrating after scooping one of the province's biggest ever lottery wins. The Londonderry ticket-holder won £6.4m in the EuroMillions lottery ...
Northern Ireland News, Feb 4, 2008
Motorist Dies In Collision
A man has been killed in a serious road traffic collision in County Londonderry. The crash, which occurred at around 7am near the junction of the Glenshane Road and the Claudy road, involved a lorry ...
UK National News, Feb 1, 2008
Train Crash Driver 'Serious'
A train driver suffered serious injuries today when his train derailed after hitting a damaged footbridge in Leicestershire. British Transport police said that the train driver was removed from the d...
UK National News, Jan 31, 2008
Extreme Weather To Worsen
Gale force winds have been causing traffic chaos across the UK, claiming at least one life, with forecasters warning of blizzards and snow showers to come. A lorry driver died on the M6 in Cumbria in...
UK National News, Jan 28, 2008
'Spy' TV Camera Aided Securitas Robbery
TV-based technology allowed both the detailed planning of a multi-million pound robbery and ultimately led to the capture and conviction of the culprits. Among the five men convicted of kidnap, robbe...
Northern Ireland News, Jan 17, 2008
Lotto Winner Remanded Over Threat Allegation
Money, it seems really can't buy you love – despite the Beatles iconic lyrics – it has emerged that the relationship between an Ulsterman who scooped £130,000 on the National Lottery and his girlfrien...
UK National News, Dec 6, 2007
Suicide Verdict In Death Of Fashion Icon
A coroner has ruled that style icon Isabella Blow killed herself by drinking weedkiller. An inquest into Mrs Blow's death by Gloucestershire Coroner Alan Crickmore found that there was clear evidence...
UK National News, Nov 27, 2007
M5 Reopens After Fatal Crash
A stretch of the M5 motorway in Somerset has reopened following a 17 car pile-up in which one man was killed. The accident happened around 7pm on Monday night, on the northbound carriageway between j...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 23, 2007
Not Guilty Pleas In £18m Drug Trial
One of the men arrested when police seized the largest drugs haul ever made in Northern Ireland, has denied any involvement in the multi-million-pound drugs smuggling operation. Martin Kerfoot (40), ...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 22, 2007
Derry Is Good Luck For Lottery Players
There was an early festive bonus for a Londonderry couple this week with news they have won £130,000 on the National Lottery. Sean Cruickshank and his partner Denise Carlin are planning to spend a fe...