07/05/2010
Other NI News In Brief
Poll Bomb Alert
General Election counting in Foyle and East Londonderry was suspended for an hour and a half after a car was abandoned at Templemore Sports Complex in Londonderry overnight. A pipe bomb left outside an election count centre in Londonderry was later described as a viable device. Police said that a taxi was hijacked and a gun put to the driver's head. He was told to bring the pipe bomb to the count. Dissident republicans have been blamed.
Jobs On The Line
Some 80 jobs are at risk at the call centre operator Gem with a consultation period already underway. The company has said 60 staff at its Belfast offices and 20 in Londonderry could be made redundant from the 500 people it employs now. It would happen between June and September this year with a spokesperson for the company saying that the reduction in the workforce followed decisions by two of its clients not to renew contracts.
PMS Savers Cash-In
Preliminary payments have been made this week to some savers in the Presbyterian Mutual Society - but only the larger investors in the collapsed PMS had cheques delivered - and then, they were only worth 12% of their own money. Smaller savers with under £20,000 will not benefit from the cheques, as the High Court has ruled that they are not creditors and must take second priority to larger savers.
Pensioner Hurt By Robbers
A 79-year-old woman has been left injured and two younger people badly shaken when a gang ransacked the elderly woman's house at Castlereagh on Wednesday. The east Belfast pensioner, a 20-year-old man and a woman, aged 19, were held in one room of the dwelling at Mayfair Avenue while a number of men searched the house. The men eventually made off with a sum of money.
(BMcC/GK)
General Election counting in Foyle and East Londonderry was suspended for an hour and a half after a car was abandoned at Templemore Sports Complex in Londonderry overnight. A pipe bomb left outside an election count centre in Londonderry was later described as a viable device. Police said that a taxi was hijacked and a gun put to the driver's head. He was told to bring the pipe bomb to the count. Dissident republicans have been blamed.
Jobs On The Line
Some 80 jobs are at risk at the call centre operator Gem with a consultation period already underway. The company has said 60 staff at its Belfast offices and 20 in Londonderry could be made redundant from the 500 people it employs now. It would happen between June and September this year with a spokesperson for the company saying that the reduction in the workforce followed decisions by two of its clients not to renew contracts.
PMS Savers Cash-In
Preliminary payments have been made this week to some savers in the Presbyterian Mutual Society - but only the larger investors in the collapsed PMS had cheques delivered - and then, they were only worth 12% of their own money. Smaller savers with under £20,000 will not benefit from the cheques, as the High Court has ruled that they are not creditors and must take second priority to larger savers.
Pensioner Hurt By Robbers
A 79-year-old woman has been left injured and two younger people badly shaken when a gang ransacked the elderly woman's house at Castlereagh on Wednesday. The east Belfast pensioner, a 20-year-old man and a woman, aged 19, were held in one room of the dwelling at Mayfair Avenue while a number of men searched the house. The men eventually made off with a sum of money.
(BMcC/GK)
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28 January 2005
Two people perish in Derry house fire
Two people, both reported to be in their 40s, have died in a house fire in Londonderry in the early hours of Friday morning. The bodies were discovered in the hallway near to the front door of a house at Cashelhill Park in the Shantallow area at around 3.30am this morning.
Two people perish in Derry house fire
Two people, both reported to be in their 40s, have died in a house fire in Londonderry in the early hours of Friday morning. The bodies were discovered in the hallway near to the front door of a house at Cashelhill Park in the Shantallow area at around 3.30am this morning.
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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.