Northern Ireland News for July 2002 : Page 9

Northern Ireland News, Jul 2, 2002
Cancer specialist centre gets green light
A new cancer specialist centre has been given the green light by the Executive today as part of £270 million reform and reinvestment package. Building work on the regional specialist centre at the Ci...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 2, 2002
Security increased at Newtownabbey cemetery
Security is to be tightened at a Newtownabbey cemetery following the desecration of nearly 30 graves last weekend. Councillors in Newtownabbey met on Monday night to consider how the attacks at Carnm...
Business News, Jul 2, 2002
Company directors disqualified over £768,000 debts
The High Court has completed proceedings against three Directors who were involved in Omagh-based civil engineering company, Castle Contracts (IRL) Limited. On 16 May 2002 the High Court disqualifie...
Business News, Jul 2, 2002
Cadcoevolution install new CAD system at Pressfold
Northern Ireland company Pressfold, which designs and produces the Powersheild range of steel doors and frames, have taken delivery of a new CAD system from cadcoevolution. Pressfold's Design Enginee...
Business News, Jul 2, 2002
Interior design has eastern promise at Tai Tam Studio
If the answer to "What does the Qing dynasty mean to you?" is 'little' you're not alone, yet its influence and that of two Northern Ireland sisters with a personal interest in the Far East is beginnin...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 2, 2002
Ministerial go-ahead to catering college merger
The Minister for Employment and Learning Carmel Hanna has given her seal of approval to the controversial merger of the Northern Ireland Hotel and Catering College (NIHCC) with the University of Ulste...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 2, 2002
Executive provides further £10m for children
The Executive is to provide a further £10.1 million from its Children’s Fund to support new projects. These projects will be aimed at improving the life chances and citizenship of vulnerable children...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 2, 2002
Yoghurt deal churned out at Dale Farm
Dale Farm has announced the acquisition of the specialist Scottish yoghurt and health drinks manufacturer, Rowan Glen Dairy Products. Dale Farm said the acquisition, which was for an undisclosed sum,...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 2, 2002
Orange Order seek review of Drumcree parade ban
The Portadown Orange Lodge have requested a formal review of a Parades Commission decision banning their annual controversial parade from Drumcree Church. The Parades Commission made the ruling on Mo...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 2, 2002
Bombardier boost job skills in West Belfast
Bombardier Aerospace has announced two more programmes as part of a major skills initiative to improve employment prospects for people in the West Belfast/Greater Shankill area. The programmes will f...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 2, 2002
Reid meets with top loyalists in Belfast
Northern Ireland Secretary John Reid has held talks with senior loyalists in Belfast today to discuss growing sectarian tensions in the city. Mr Reid met with members of the Loyalist Commission, an u...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 1, 2002
Trimble urges Drumcree parade go-ahead
The leader of the Ulster Unionist Party David Trimble has urged the Parades Commission to allow this year’s controversial march at Drumcree to go ahead. The Orange Order parade to Drumcree in Portado...
Business News, Jul 1, 2002
Farmers Loan Scheme discussions with HSBC
Ulster Unionist Assembly spokesman on Agriculture, George Savage has held lengthy meetings with senior representatives from international bank, HSBC on the proposed farmers' Early Retirement and Loan ...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 1, 2002
Sinn Féin leaders meet Taoiseach
A Sinn Féin delegation led by party president Gerry Adams will meet the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern today for a review of the peace process. The meeting comes as another potential crisis looms after David...
Business News, Jul 1, 2002
HSENI launch European Safety Week
The Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSENI) recently launched this year's European Week for Safety and Health which runs from October 14 to October 20. With around half a million peo...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 1, 2002
Cross border initiative tackles child deaths on farms
A north-south initiative to highlight the problem of child deaths on farms, has released new figures which reveal the scale of the problem on both sides of the border. Figures from the initiative rev...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 1, 2002
Minister announces £4m cash boost for health
Finance Minister Sean Farren has announced the Health Service in Northern Ireland is to get a £4 million cash boost. The bulk of the funding allocation, some £3 million will be used for cardiac surge...
Business News, Jul 1, 2002
Mobile users encouraged to save money when abroad
Visitors from the UK using their mobile phone in Europe this summer can save themselves around 40 per cent or more on their bill by following advice published by Oftel. While many mobile phone users ...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 1, 2002
Ombudsman to probe murder of Catholic RUC officer
The Police Ombudsman’s Office has said in light of fresh information it is to launch an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the murder of a Catholic Royal Ulster Constabulary officer 25 y...
Business News, Jul 1, 2002
Ryanair celebrates third year at Derry Airport
Low fares airline Ryanair will this week celebrate its third anniversary of scheduled services from the City of Derry Airport to London Stansted. Congratulating the Irish airline’s investment Derry C...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 1, 2002
Ambulance fleet to receive £10m for improvements
The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service looks set to receive nearly £10 million as part a Department of Health plan to improve its service and upgrade its aging fleet. The announcement last week came ...
Business News, Jul 1, 2002
NI companies look to the Carolinas
Representatives from 11 Northern Ireland companies recently spent a week in the South Carolina and the Charlotte region in the US as part of a north-east Antrim trade mission. As part of the trip, re...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 1, 2002
Maskey lays wreath in tribute to WWI victims
Belfast’s first citizen Alex Maskey has become the first republican lord mayor to lay a wreath in commemoration of those who died in the Battle of the Somme. This morning Mr Maskey became the first e...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 1, 2002
Hanna highlights success of Mitchell Scholarships
Employment and Learning Minister, Mrs Carmel Hanna, has praised the Mitchell Scholarship Programme as a "successful and worthwhile" programme for American students in Northern Ireland. The Minister m...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 1, 2002
Rosslea police station attacked by republican youths
A police station in County Fermanagh was attacked by a crowd of republican youths on Sunday afternoon. Around 50 masked youths attacked the police station and caused damage to the exterior of the bui...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 1, 2002
McClarty to meet B9 over wind farm proposal
East Londonderry assembly member David McClarty is to meet a senior representative of B9 Energy, who are part of an energy consortium investigating the viability of developing a Wind Farm off the Nort...
Northern Ireland News, Jul 1, 2002
Rapid Advancement Programme attracts UK attention
Carmel Hanna, Minister for Employment and Learning, has spoken of the possible adoption of Northern Ireland's Rapid Advancement Programme (RAP) model into other regions of the UK. The Minister was sp...
Business News, Jul 1, 2002
UK accolade for local engineering company
Larne-based FG Wilson has won a major UK manufacturing award in London. The engineering outfit picked up the ‘Process Innovation’ award in the Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) Manufacturing...
Business News, Jul 1, 2002
Morrow Communications campaign hits home
Holywood-based public relations consultancy, Morrow Communications was highly commended at the recent all-Ireland Awards for Excellence in Public Relations (PRCA), competing in the Healthcare category...