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Northern Ireland News, Nov 24, 2011
Drugs Haul Boosts Border Crime Focus
Drugs have been recovered in an international cross-border operation that highlighted the fight against organised crime across Ireland, North and South. It has been revealed that a joint police opera...
UK National News, Oct 11, 2011
Hauliers To Trail 'Unsafe' Trailers
Some hauliers will be allowed to use longer trailers under plans published on Tuesday by Roads Minister Mike Penning. He said that following a consultation on proposals to allow a two metre increase ...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 4, 2011
NI Men Held Over Fuel Laundering
Two men from NI have been arrested in Monaghan on suspicion of running a fuel laundering plant. Irish Revenue officers and Gardaí raided the operation at commercial premises in Glaslough last night. ...
Northern Ireland News, Sep 5, 2011
Illicit Fermanagh Fuel Operation Targeted
Nearly three thousand litres of suspected illegal fuel were seized at a filling station in Co Fermanagh by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) officers today. HMRC accompanied by the PSNI visited the retail ...
Northern Ireland News, Aug 3, 2011
Tragic Crashes Kill Cyclists
There have been two Irish road tragedies involving cyclists. A female cyclist in her 30s has been killed after being involved in the crash on the Upper Newtownards Road, Belfast on Wednesday morning....
Northern Ireland News, Jul 28, 2011
Illegal Ballymena Fuel Pumps Shut Off
An illegal filling station or 'huckster' site was dismantled this week by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) as part of ongoing operations to tackle fuel fraud. HMRC, assisted by officers from the PSNI, vis...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 22, 2011
Safety Officials Probe Coleraine Dump Tragedy
There has been a tragedy on a Co Londonderry municipal dump today. The victim, a man, was killed in an industrial accident at the council-owned site. Coleraine PSNI attended the scene of the industr...
Northern Ireland News, Apr 15, 2011
Tragic Cyclist Identified
The cyclist killed in an accident involving a lorry at around 6.30am this morning has been identified. The man was fatally injured on the Ormeau Road at the Annadale/Ormeau junction with the police i...
Northern Ireland News, Apr 5, 2011
£50K Offered To Catch Ronan Kerr's Killers
The national crime-fighting charity Crimestoppers is offering a cash incentive of up to £50,000 for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the death of PSNI offic...
UK National News, Apr 5, 2011
Reward Boosts Hunt For NI Police Killers
The national crime-fighting charity Crimestoppers is offering a cash incentive of up to £50,000 for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the death of PSNI offic...
Northern Ireland News, Mar 18, 2011
Teens Among Irish Road Tragedies
Three people have died in two separate road accidents in Co Cork in just 24 hours. The news came as the name of the victim of a road accident on the main road between Ballymena and Ballymoney was bei...
Business News, Mar 11, 2011
Poots Announces Recycling Initiatives
Environment Minister Edwin Poots announced further funding today to boost recycling, bringing the total made available this year to over £6million. This third round of funding of £2million is in addi...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...