Northern Ireland News for November 2002 : Page 8
Northern Ireland News, Nov 6, 2002
Stream axe 48 jobs at Londonderry call centre
The Londonderry branch of Stream International has announced that it is shedding 48 jobs. Stream International, which operates a call centre in the city's Science and Technology Park, provides suppor...
Stream axe 48 jobs at Londonderry call centre
The Londonderry branch of Stream International has announced that it is shedding 48 jobs. Stream International, which operates a call centre in the city's Science and Technology Park, provides suppor...
Business News, Nov 6, 2002
Low-paid more likely to stop work to care for children
A survey has found that those who can least afford to stop work and take on parenting full-time are more likely to do so because of a lack of affordable childcare. The Chartered Institute of Personne...
Low-paid more likely to stop work to care for children
A survey has found that those who can least afford to stop work and take on parenting full-time are more likely to do so because of a lack of affordable childcare. The Chartered Institute of Personne...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 6, 2002
Workplace health issues move up agenda
Each year close to 55,000 employees in Northern Ireland suffer from ill health that has been caused or made worse by work. The Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSENI) highlighted thi...
Workplace health issues move up agenda
Each year close to 55,000 employees in Northern Ireland suffer from ill health that has been caused or made worse by work. The Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSENI) highlighted thi...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 6, 2002
Prison officers fight for better security measures
Prison officers have come to an agreement with the Police Service of Northern Ireland on ensuring better security measures for their prison staff after the IRA allegedly accessed personal files. A ma...
Prison officers fight for better security measures
Prison officers have come to an agreement with the Police Service of Northern Ireland on ensuring better security measures for their prison staff after the IRA allegedly accessed personal files. A ma...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 6, 2002
Ten-year road safety strategy for Northern Ireland launched
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Angela Smith, today launched the new Northern Ireland Road Safety Strategy for 2002-2012. The Strategy sets long-term targets aimed at reducing road deaths and...
Ten-year road safety strategy for Northern Ireland launched
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Angela Smith, today launched the new Northern Ireland Road Safety Strategy for 2002-2012. The Strategy sets long-term targets aimed at reducing road deaths and...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 6, 2002
Report recommends sweeping Special Branch changes
A report delivered to the Policing Board has recommended the setting up of a new intelligence branch within the Police Service of Northern Ireland. The report by Her Majesty's Inspector of Constabula...
Report recommends sweeping Special Branch changes
A report delivered to the Policing Board has recommended the setting up of a new intelligence branch within the Police Service of Northern Ireland. The report by Her Majesty's Inspector of Constabula...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 6, 2002
Belfast to Heathrow route helps bmi passenger numbers
The Belfast to Heathrow route has helped airline bmi attract more passengers than ever before. Airlines bmi and bmibaby saw passenger numbers rise by 32% in October, compared to the same month last y...
Belfast to Heathrow route helps bmi passenger numbers
The Belfast to Heathrow route has helped airline bmi attract more passengers than ever before. Airlines bmi and bmibaby saw passenger numbers rise by 32% in October, compared to the same month last y...
Business News, Nov 6, 2002
Technology-led companies becoming a driving force
Companies in niche technology markets are increasingly driving the transformation of Northern Ireland into a knowledge-driven economy. This was the message from Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State...
Technology-led companies becoming a driving force
Companies in niche technology markets are increasingly driving the transformation of Northern Ireland into a knowledge-driven economy. This was the message from Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State...
Business News, Nov 6, 2002
CITB scoops regional win in training awards
The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) for Northern Ireland is one of the 29 Northern Ireland regional winners in this year’s National Training Awards Competition. Congratulating the CITB on...
CITB scoops regional win in training awards
The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) for Northern Ireland is one of the 29 Northern Ireland regional winners in this year’s National Training Awards Competition. Congratulating the CITB on...
Business News, Nov 6, 2002
Lisburn company expansion set to generate more business
Power generation specialist Edina Manufacturing has opened a new plant in Lisburn. Graham Davis, Invest NI's Director of Local Economic Development, opened the new premises, which are located at Liss...
Lisburn company expansion set to generate more business
Power generation specialist Edina Manufacturing has opened a new plant in Lisburn. Graham Davis, Invest NI's Director of Local Economic Development, opened the new premises, which are located at Liss...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 6, 2002
Women entrepreneurs' achievements celebrated
The achievements of a new generation of women entrepreneurs in the North East were acknowledged at a special event yesterday in Ballymena organised by Invest NI. Over 70 businesswomen attended the ev...
Women entrepreneurs' achievements celebrated
The achievements of a new generation of women entrepreneurs in the North East were acknowledged at a special event yesterday in Ballymena organised by Invest NI. Over 70 businesswomen attended the ev...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 6, 2002
Visitor boost for Belfast Welcome Centre
Figures released by the Belfast Visitor and Convention Bureau (BVCB) reveal that visitor numbers to the Belfast Welcome Centre are up 17% on last year with an increase of 19% in total enquiries. Duri...
Visitor boost for Belfast Welcome Centre
Figures released by the Belfast Visitor and Convention Bureau (BVCB) reveal that visitor numbers to the Belfast Welcome Centre are up 17% on last year with an increase of 19% in total enquiries. Duri...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 6, 2002
MP blames IRA for Armagh attacks
Northern Ireland's former deputy first minister Seamus Mallon has said the IRA were behind a vicious attack on a young man in south Armagh. The man, 22-year-old Kieran Toner, was setting up his mobil...
MP blames IRA for Armagh attacks
Northern Ireland's former deputy first minister Seamus Mallon has said the IRA were behind a vicious attack on a young man in south Armagh. The man, 22-year-old Kieran Toner, was setting up his mobil...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 5, 2002
LVF and UDA feud over
The feud between loyalist paramilitary groups the Loyalist Volunteer Force and the Ulster Defence Association is over. The announcement came on Tuesday afternoon after the two groups met at a hotel v...
LVF and UDA feud over
The feud between loyalist paramilitary groups the Loyalist Volunteer Force and the Ulster Defence Association is over. The announcement came on Tuesday afternoon after the two groups met at a hotel v...
Business News, Nov 5, 2002
BA announces increase in profits
British Airways has reported a leap in profits to the sum of £245m for the three months to the end of September. While the company warned of "continued uncertainty" in the aviation market it said tha...
BA announces increase in profits
British Airways has reported a leap in profits to the sum of £245m for the three months to the end of September. While the company warned of "continued uncertainty" in the aviation market it said tha...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 5, 2002
Exiled man returns to Province
A man who was forced to leave Northern Ireland by the IRA has reportedly returned home. Joseph McCloskey, 30, fled Londonderry in April 2001 after receiving death threats from the IRA following an in...
Exiled man returns to Province
A man who was forced to leave Northern Ireland by the IRA has reportedly returned home. Joseph McCloskey, 30, fled Londonderry in April 2001 after receiving death threats from the IRA following an in...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 5, 2002
Management buy-out secures Fujitsu's Belfast R&D operation
A management buy-out at the Belfast-based research and development operation of Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe has placed the operation in local hands. The buy-out deal brings the leading-edge sof...
Management buy-out secures Fujitsu's Belfast R&D operation
A management buy-out at the Belfast-based research and development operation of Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe has placed the operation in local hands. The buy-out deal brings the leading-edge sof...
Business News, Nov 5, 2002
Red Bay Boats expands production facilities
Cushendall company, Red Bay Boats is forecasting a healthy increase in sales following a recent factory expansion. The Invest Northern Ireland backed company, which produces a range of Fastfisher Fis...
Red Bay Boats expands production facilities
Cushendall company, Red Bay Boats is forecasting a healthy increase in sales following a recent factory expansion. The Invest Northern Ireland backed company, which produces a range of Fastfisher Fis...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 5, 2002
Illicit vodka bottling plant uncovered in south Armagh
Police have uncovered an illicit vodka bottling plant and seized £300,000 worth of contraband goods during a raid in south Armagh on Monday evening. Police uncovered the vodka plant in Jonesborough w...
Illicit vodka bottling plant uncovered in south Armagh
Police have uncovered an illicit vodka bottling plant and seized £300,000 worth of contraband goods during a raid in south Armagh on Monday evening. Police uncovered the vodka plant in Jonesborough w...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 5, 2002
Trimble unwilling to 'fudge' Assembly suspension
Ulster Unionist Party leader, David Trimble has said that the responsibility to avert the current political crisis and launch the process of returning power to Stormont rests firmly with Sinn Féin. I...
Trimble unwilling to 'fudge' Assembly suspension
Ulster Unionist Party leader, David Trimble has said that the responsibility to avert the current political crisis and launch the process of returning power to Stormont rests firmly with Sinn Féin. I...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 5, 2002
Work begins on final phase of Laganside development
Work at the £10m private sector funded Lanyon Quay project, one of the last pieces of the regeneration jigsaw around Belfast's Waterfront Hall, got under way today. The project, which will provide th...
Work begins on final phase of Laganside development
Work at the £10m private sector funded Lanyon Quay project, one of the last pieces of the regeneration jigsaw around Belfast's Waterfront Hall, got under way today. The project, which will provide th...
Business News, Nov 5, 2002
Fermanagh firm has recipe for success at Harrods
Award winning Fermanagh Black Bacon from Enniskillen is a sizzling success with 'foodies' and other shoppers at Harrods in London. O’Doherty’s, an Invest NI client company, has seen success in the co...
Fermanagh firm has recipe for success at Harrods
Award winning Fermanagh Black Bacon from Enniskillen is a sizzling success with 'foodies' and other shoppers at Harrods in London. O’Doherty’s, an Invest NI client company, has seen success in the co...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 5, 2002
Trimble and Adams meet to discuss way forward
Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble and Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams have met for the first time since the suspension of the Northern Ireland Assembly. They met at Stormont on Monday just a few d...
Trimble and Adams meet to discuss way forward
Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble and Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams have met for the first time since the suspension of the Northern Ireland Assembly. They met at Stormont on Monday just a few d...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 5, 2002
House building on the increase in Northern Ireland
House-building activity in Northern Ireland has increased by ten per cent during the third quarter of 2002, according to the latest figures from the National House-Building Council (NHBC). NHBC figur...
House building on the increase in Northern Ireland
House-building activity in Northern Ireland has increased by ten per cent during the third quarter of 2002, according to the latest figures from the National House-Building Council (NHBC). NHBC figur...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 5, 2002
Councillors warn on drug dealers targeting schoolchildren
School principals in the Belfast area are to be warned that drug dealers are targeting pupils catching school buses around the City Hall. At a meeting of Belfast City council on Monday evening it was...
Councillors warn on drug dealers targeting schoolchildren
School principals in the Belfast area are to be warned that drug dealers are targeting pupils catching school buses around the City Hall. At a meeting of Belfast City council on Monday evening it was...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 5, 2002
Police search operation launched after nail attack
Police investigating the brutal assault of a man who had his hands nailed to a fence have searched five properties in the Seymour Hill estate and seized various items for forensic examination. A poli...
Police search operation launched after nail attack
Police investigating the brutal assault of a man who had his hands nailed to a fence have searched five properties in the Seymour Hill estate and seized various items for forensic examination. A poli...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 4, 2002
Belfast tourism figures on the up
Belfast played host to nearly 1.5 million tourists last year, according to the latest figures from Belfast City Council. The Belfast tourism monitor report showed that the 1.5 million tourists came t...
Belfast tourism figures on the up
Belfast played host to nearly 1.5 million tourists last year, according to the latest figures from Belfast City Council. The Belfast tourism monitor report showed that the 1.5 million tourists came t...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 4, 2002
Policing Board reaches first year milestone
Despite uncertainty over the Northern Ireland Policing Board's future, the board has reached a major milestone in its existence – its first birthday. Reflecting on the achievements of the 'accountabi...
Policing Board reaches first year milestone
Despite uncertainty over the Northern Ireland Policing Board's future, the board has reached a major milestone in its existence – its first birthday. Reflecting on the achievements of the 'accountabi...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 4, 2002
Man charged with Lisburn murder
A 42-year-old County Antrim man has appeared in court charged with murder. David Malcolm Ryan, formerly from Chapel Hill in Lisburn was accused of murdering 52-year-old Gerald Thompson. Mr Thompson'...
Man charged with Lisburn murder
A 42-year-old County Antrim man has appeared in court charged with murder. David Malcolm Ryan, formerly from Chapel Hill in Lisburn was accused of murdering 52-year-old Gerald Thompson. Mr Thompson'...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 4, 2002
Ryanair post blossoming half-year results
Low-cost Irish carrier Ryanair has announced record passenger levels for the first half this financial year. According to figures published today the Irish budget airline carried 7.84 million passeng...
Ryanair post blossoming half-year results
Low-cost Irish carrier Ryanair has announced record passenger levels for the first half this financial year. According to figures published today the Irish budget airline carried 7.84 million passeng...
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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.
