07/06/2012
Other NI News In Brief
Chipboard Jobs Under Threat
Nineteen jobs are threatened at a Coleraine chipboard manufacturer as the recession bites on its profit margins.
Bosses at Spanboard are in talks with staff and union representatives over the future of the jobs, which involve making and distributing melamine laminate.
Missing Girl Safe And Sound
A 10-year-old girl who went missing and sparked a rescue search has been found "safe and well", police said.
When she left her Lower Ormeau Road home yesterday evening to go to the shops and did not come home, a search of the River Lagan was carried out.
But police confirmed she was found this morning.
Pollution Fine For County Antrim Farmer
A Ballymoney farmer polluted 1,500 metres of a tributary of the Lower Bann River.
Discharge from Jonathan Gamble’s farm on Drumlee Road, Finvoy, caused heavy fungal growth on the Slackwater Burn and could have been dangerous to fish life in the Bann.
Mr Gamble was fined £400 and ordered to pay £25 court costs at Coleraine Magistrates’ Court.
Wayfaring Wallaby Wandered Off
A marsupial that hit the headlines yesterday has been claimed by a pair of County Tyrone brothers.
George and TG Troughton keeps wallabies as pets and asked for the public's help in tracing the escaped animal, which attracted attention when seen in a field at Brantry, near Eglish.
The two-year-old male has been on the run for 10 days, surviving on leaves and fruit.
It is the father of two baby wallabies and has left its mate behind in Moy, six miles from the field where it was last seen.
TG said it probably wanted to come back to the safety of its own enclosure, but had got lost along the way.
The animal, native to Australia, does not pose any risk to the public.
(NE)
Nineteen jobs are threatened at a Coleraine chipboard manufacturer as the recession bites on its profit margins.
Bosses at Spanboard are in talks with staff and union representatives over the future of the jobs, which involve making and distributing melamine laminate.
Missing Girl Safe And Sound
A 10-year-old girl who went missing and sparked a rescue search has been found "safe and well", police said.
When she left her Lower Ormeau Road home yesterday evening to go to the shops and did not come home, a search of the River Lagan was carried out.
But police confirmed she was found this morning.
Pollution Fine For County Antrim Farmer
A Ballymoney farmer polluted 1,500 metres of a tributary of the Lower Bann River.
Discharge from Jonathan Gamble’s farm on Drumlee Road, Finvoy, caused heavy fungal growth on the Slackwater Burn and could have been dangerous to fish life in the Bann.
Mr Gamble was fined £400 and ordered to pay £25 court costs at Coleraine Magistrates’ Court.
Wayfaring Wallaby Wandered Off
A marsupial that hit the headlines yesterday has been claimed by a pair of County Tyrone brothers.
George and TG Troughton keeps wallabies as pets and asked for the public's help in tracing the escaped animal, which attracted attention when seen in a field at Brantry, near Eglish.
The two-year-old male has been on the run for 10 days, surviving on leaves and fruit.
It is the father of two baby wallabies and has left its mate behind in Moy, six miles from the field where it was last seen.
TG said it probably wanted to come back to the safety of its own enclosure, but had got lost along the way.
The animal, native to Australia, does not pose any risk to the public.
(NE)
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16 March 2005
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14 March 2002
Search intensifies for missing Portadown man
The police mountain rescue team have entered the search for a Portadown pensioner missing since Saturday afternoon. Ronald McBroom (65) was last seen on Saturday night in King Street in the town as he returned to his Clanbrassil home.
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The Ulster Unionist Party has expressed deep sadness after its former Councillor, John Hanna, was killed in a collision in Co Antrim on Monday. Mr Hanna, 66, was killed in a crash on the Ballinlea Road in Ballintoy at around 3.45pm.
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