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Northern Ireland News, Feb 7, 2011
Three Held After Co Derry Hi-Jack Bid
A man and woman were forced off the road and out of their car in Kilrea, Co Londonderry in the early hours of Sunday morning. Although they were dragged from their black Peugeot 306, they were not hu...
Three Held After Co Derry Hi-Jack Bid
A man and woman were forced off the road and out of their car in Kilrea, Co Londonderry in the early hours of Sunday morning. Although they were dragged from their black Peugeot 306, they were not hu...
Northern Ireland News, Jan 14, 2011
Holywood A2 Back To Normal After 'Incident'
Thousands of drivers were caught up in traffic chaos during an 'incident' that led to day-long disruption in east Belfast on Thursday. Earlier, passing rush hour motorists on what is one of NI's busi...
Holywood A2 Back To Normal After 'Incident'
Thousands of drivers were caught up in traffic chaos during an 'incident' that led to day-long disruption in east Belfast on Thursday. Earlier, passing rush hour motorists on what is one of NI's busi...
Northern Ireland News, Dec 13, 2010
£1m Drugs Haul Welcomed
A large-scale police operation that saw a major drug seizure has been warmly welcomed by a local DUP politician. The news that three men were arrested following the seizure of £1m worth of drugs brou...
£1m Drugs Haul Welcomed
A large-scale police operation that saw a major drug seizure has been warmly welcomed by a local DUP politician. The news that three men were arrested following the seizure of £1m worth of drugs brou...
Northern Ireland News, Dec 10, 2010
Bridge Jump Man Saved By Police
A remarkable act of bravery by a police officer and some quick thinking by a lorry driver have combined to save a man from jumping from a Westlink bridge this afternoon. Traffic ground to a halt on t...
Bridge Jump Man Saved By Police
A remarkable act of bravery by a police officer and some quick thinking by a lorry driver have combined to save a man from jumping from a Westlink bridge this afternoon. Traffic ground to a halt on t...
Recruitment News, Sep 17, 2010
Bread 'To Rise' As Jobs Hit, Says Dodds
A European Union directive on driving hours will drive bread prices up. DUP MEP Diane Dodds has warned of the potential detrimental impact of an EU 'Directive on Driver's Hours', particularly for job...
Bread 'To Rise' As Jobs Hit, Says Dodds
A European Union directive on driving hours will drive bread prices up. DUP MEP Diane Dodds has warned of the potential detrimental impact of an EU 'Directive on Driver's Hours', particularly for job...
Northern Ireland News, Sep 17, 2010
Bread Set To Rise, Says Dodds
A European Union directive on driving hours will drive bread prices up. DUP MEP Diane Dodds has warned of the potential detrimental impact of an EU 'Directive on Driver's Hours', particularly for job...
Bread Set To Rise, Says Dodds
A European Union directive on driving hours will drive bread prices up. DUP MEP Diane Dodds has warned of the potential detrimental impact of an EU 'Directive on Driver's Hours', particularly for job...
UK National News, Sep 10, 2010
Murdered Lorry Driver's Family Appeals
The family of a lorry driver who was gunned down at his home in Staffordshire in July have appealed for information about his murder. Father-of-two Richard Deakin, 27, was shot in the chest at his ho...
Murdered Lorry Driver's Family Appeals
The family of a lorry driver who was gunned down at his home in Staffordshire in July have appealed for information about his murder. Father-of-two Richard Deakin, 27, was shot in the chest at his ho...
UK National News, Sep 1, 2010
Woman Dies After M5 Crash
A woman who was injured in a multiple vehicle collision on the M5 in Devon has died in hospital. Oxana Tukova, a 21-year-old Russian national, was one of seven people injured in the eight-vehicle col...
Woman Dies After M5 Crash
A woman who was injured in a multiple vehicle collision on the M5 in Devon has died in hospital. Oxana Tukova, a 21-year-old Russian national, was one of seven people injured in the eight-vehicle col...
UK National News, Aug 26, 2010
Man Jailed For 1989 Rape
A lorry driver has been jailed for six-and-a-half years for the rape of a woman in Burnley more than twenty years ago. Leslie Marshall, 51, of Stonefield Road, Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, pleaded gu...
Man Jailed For 1989 Rape
A lorry driver has been jailed for six-and-a-half years for the rape of a woman in Burnley more than twenty years ago. Leslie Marshall, 51, of Stonefield Road, Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, pleaded gu...
UK National News, Aug 18, 2010
Driver Dies In Four Lorry Collision
A man has been killed in a collision involving four lorries on the M1 this morning. The incident happened around 4:40am between junctions 15 at Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire. The driver of o...
Driver Dies In Four Lorry Collision
A man has been killed in a collision involving four lorries on the M1 this morning. The incident happened around 4:40am between junctions 15 at Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire. The driver of o...
UK National News, Aug 18, 2010
Over 20 Hurt In Rail Crossing Crash
Twenty-one people have been injured after a train collided with a sewage tanker at a level crossing in Suffolk on Tuesday. The incident happened around 5:30pm at Little Cornard, near Sudbury, when th...
Over 20 Hurt In Rail Crossing Crash
Twenty-one people have been injured after a train collided with a sewage tanker at a level crossing in Suffolk on Tuesday. The incident happened around 5:30pm at Little Cornard, near Sudbury, when th...
Northern Ireland News, Aug 3, 2010
Daíl Pays Price For Illegal Dumping
The Irish Republic is to pay around €20 million to repatriate waste which was illegally dumped across the border in Northern Ireland over the past decade. Daíl Environment Minister John Gormley annou...
Daíl Pays Price For Illegal Dumping
The Irish Republic is to pay around €20 million to repatriate waste which was illegally dumped across the border in Northern Ireland over the past decade. Daíl Environment Minister John Gormley annou...
UK National News, Jul 27, 2010
Man Jailed Over Plot To 'Sell Ritz'
An unemployed lorry driver has been jailed for five years over an "elaborate and outrageous scam" to sell the Ritz Hotel in London for £250 million. Anthony Lee, 49, from Beal in North Yorkshire dupe...
Man Jailed Over Plot To 'Sell Ritz'
An unemployed lorry driver has been jailed for five years over an "elaborate and outrageous scam" to sell the Ritz Hotel in London for £250 million. Anthony Lee, 49, from Beal in North Yorkshire dupe...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 2, 2010
PSNI's Bid For Cost-Cutting Civilians Fails
A proposal to use armed civilian guards has been vetoed by the NI Policing Board - but as the PSNI faces massive financial cuts of more than £1m a week - such a move could have saved the PSNI a much-n...
PSNI's Bid For Cost-Cutting Civilians Fails
A proposal to use armed civilian guards has been vetoed by the NI Policing Board - but as the PSNI faces massive financial cuts of more than £1m a week - such a move could have saved the PSNI a much-n...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 2, 2010
Fake Cigs Haul Welcomed
The actions of customs and PSNI officers in seizing millions of illegal Chinese manufactured cigarettes in south Armagh have been welcomed by an East Belfast MLA. The DUP's Robin Newton (pictured) s...
Fake Cigs Haul Welcomed
The actions of customs and PSNI officers in seizing millions of illegal Chinese manufactured cigarettes in south Armagh have been welcomed by an East Belfast MLA. The DUP's Robin Newton (pictured) s...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 30, 2010
PSNI Roadblock Officer 'Seriously Ill'
A Sinn Fein Stormont Minister has slammed those behind a cross border smuggling attempt that has left two police officers injured - one of them very seriously. Conor Murphy, the MP for Newry Armagh w...
PSNI Roadblock Officer 'Seriously Ill'
A Sinn Fein Stormont Minister has slammed those behind a cross border smuggling attempt that has left two police officers injured - one of them very seriously. Conor Murphy, the MP for Newry Armagh w...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 3, 2010
Lorry Driver In Deadly Bus Crash 'Guilty'
Sentencing is due to take next month after a man accused of causing the death of a teenage girl when his lorry hit a school bus in Co Tyrone changed his plea to guilty yesterday. The crash took place...
Lorry Driver In Deadly Bus Crash 'Guilty'
Sentencing is due to take next month after a man accused of causing the death of a teenage girl when his lorry hit a school bus in Co Tyrone changed his plea to guilty yesterday. The crash took place...
UK National News, May 26, 2010
YouTube Lorry Driver Keeps Licence
A lorry driver who was recorded driving along a motorway with a car trapped on the front of his cab is to retain his licence. The footage, which was shown on YouTube, showed the lorry pushing a Renau...
YouTube Lorry Driver Keeps Licence
A lorry driver who was recorded driving along a motorway with a car trapped on the front of his cab is to retain his licence. The footage, which was shown on YouTube, showed the lorry pushing a Renau...
UK National News, Apr 22, 2010
Man Who Killed Biker Jailed For 10 Years
A man who violently killed a biker more than 10 years ago has been jailed. Thomas Pryde, 38, from Perthshire, said he attacked 46-year-old biker Adam Alexander in 1999 with a metal pole after they ha...
Man Who Killed Biker Jailed For 10 Years
A man who violently killed a biker more than 10 years ago has been jailed. Thomas Pryde, 38, from Perthshire, said he attacked 46-year-old biker Adam Alexander in 1999 with a metal pole after they ha...
UK National News, Apr 21, 2010
EC Lorry Fears Over Ash Contingency
Contingency plans being made this week for goods movements on foot of earlier flight restrictions could still be thwarted by European bureaucracy. According to the Freight Transport Association (FTA)...
EC Lorry Fears Over Ash Contingency
Contingency plans being made this week for goods movements on foot of earlier flight restrictions could still be thwarted by European bureaucracy. According to the Freight Transport Association (FTA)...
Northern Ireland News, Mar 29, 2010
Road Death Tragedies Return To NI
It has been a weekend of tragedy on NI roads with a father-of-six, named as Peter Francis Devlin, killed after the car he was travelling in was in collision with a lorry on the Belfast to Downpatrick ...
Road Death Tragedies Return To NI
It has been a weekend of tragedy on NI roads with a father-of-six, named as Peter Francis Devlin, killed after the car he was travelling in was in collision with a lorry on the Belfast to Downpatrick ...
UK National News, Mar 15, 2010
Drink-Drive Limit May Be Cut
Just one pint of beer could soon put motorists at odds with the law if - as mooted - the drink-drive limit is lowered. Drivers would then be at risk being unfit to drive after drinking a single pint ...
Drink-Drive Limit May Be Cut
Just one pint of beer could soon put motorists at odds with the law if - as mooted - the drink-drive limit is lowered. Drivers would then be at risk being unfit to drive after drinking a single pint ...
UK National News, Mar 12, 2010
Other UK News Briefs
French Accord The French President Nicolas Sarkozy is in London today for separate meetings with Gordon Brown and his Conservative rival David Cameron. Mr Brown said they had discussed a range of iss...
Other UK News Briefs
French Accord The French President Nicolas Sarkozy is in London today for separate meetings with Gordon Brown and his Conservative rival David Cameron. Mr Brown said they had discussed a range of iss...
Northern Ireland News, Feb 15, 2010
£2m Weekend Drug Haul
Drugs seized during a intelligence-led operation against an organised crime gang in Northern Ireland and England at the weekend have been valued at more than £2m. Substances suspected to be cocaine, ...
£2m Weekend Drug Haul
Drugs seized during a intelligence-led operation against an organised crime gang in Northern Ireland and England at the weekend have been valued at more than £2m. Substances suspected to be cocaine, ...
UK National News, Feb 15, 2010
Preston Focus In Weekend Drug Haul
Drugs seized during a intelligence-led operation against an organised crime gang in Northern Ireland and England at the weekend have been valued at more than £2m. Substances suspected to be cocaine, ...
Preston Focus In Weekend Drug Haul
Drugs seized during a intelligence-led operation against an organised crime gang in Northern Ireland and England at the weekend have been valued at more than £2m. Substances suspected to be cocaine, ...
UK National News, Feb 3, 2010
Two Die In Fatal Cortes Collision
Two people have been killed and a child has been seriously injured following a one vehicle road collision in Cortes at the weekend, Grampian Police confirmed today. The incident occurred on the A90 P...
Two Die In Fatal Cortes Collision
Two people have been killed and a child has been seriously injured following a one vehicle road collision in Cortes at the weekend, Grampian Police confirmed today. The incident occurred on the A90 P...
Northern Ireland News, Dec 16, 2009
ATM Security Boosted
As the number of ram-raid attacks on automated teller machine (ATMs) climbed higher this week, a dedicated group to counter the thefts has been revealed. Paul Goggins, (pictured) the NIO Security Min...
ATM Security Boosted
As the number of ram-raid attacks on automated teller machine (ATMs) climbed higher this week, a dedicated group to counter the thefts has been revealed. Paul Goggins, (pictured) the NIO Security Min...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 18, 2009
Road Death Toll Hits Six
It has been a grim night on the roads of Ireland. A man was killed in a road accident on the Shore Road in Newtownabbey, Co Antrim early this morning and four young women were fatally injured in the ...
Road Death Toll Hits Six
It has been a grim night on the roads of Ireland. A man was killed in a road accident on the Shore Road in Newtownabbey, Co Antrim early this morning and four young women were fatally injured in the ...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 22, 2009
ATM Robbery Bid Fails
In the third such incident in Northern Ireland in the last few days, thieves have again used a digger to try to steal a cash machine from outside a shop in Co Down. The latest was reported at about 3...
ATM Robbery Bid Fails
In the third such incident in Northern Ireland in the last few days, thieves have again used a digger to try to steal a cash machine from outside a shop in Co Down. The latest was reported at about 3...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 20, 2009
Transport Firm Fined Over Fitter's Death
The tragic death of a worker in Co Antrim was recalled in court this week as the firm involved faced action from the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSENI). Montgomery Transport Ltd...
Transport Firm Fined Over Fitter's Death
The tragic death of a worker in Co Antrim was recalled in court this week as the firm involved faced action from the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSENI). Montgomery Transport Ltd...
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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.