Northern Ireland News for December 2007 : Page 8

Recruitment News, Dec 5, 2007
Enterprise Ireland Support €11.4m Norkom Investment
Enterprise Ireland is to invest €4m to support Norkom Technologies €11.4m research and development and growth strategy. In investment is expected to create 111 high level jobs in Ireland, 70 of whic...
UK National News, Dec 5, 2007
British Soldier Killed In Afghanistan
A British Soldier has been killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed. The soldier, who was serving with the Brigade Reconnaissance Force, 5 Regiment Royal ...
Northern Ireland News, Dec 5, 2007
11-plus Legislation May Be Opposed
Academic selection in Northern Ireland may not yet be dead as unionist MLAs look set to block the legislation. Although Education Minister Caitriona Ruane said the transfer test for P7 pupils would b...
UK National News, Dec 5, 2007
Charges Against Rhys Meyers Dropped
Public order charges against actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers have been dropped by the Director of Public Prosecutions. The 30-year-old star of the television series 'The Tudors' had been due to appear bef...
Recruitment News, Dec 5, 2007
Galway Stunned As Abbot Labs Sheds 500 Jobs
A leading international company that featured prominently in the recent launch of the Government's IDA report for 2006 has now shocked the west with news of a huge job loss. Abbott Laboratories, one ...
Northern Ireland News, Dec 5, 2007
Paisley Lobbies Trump On Golf Development
Northern Ireland's First Minister has been holding talks with Billionaire tycoon Donald Trump aimed at securing the now controversial Trump Links development for the Province, as an alternative to the...
Northern Ireland News, Dec 5, 2007
Quinn Glass To Create 20 Jobs
There are 20 new jobs in the offing in Fermanagh as Quinn Glass has invested more than £41 million in upgrading two furnaces at its plant in Derrylin. The investment will also include the installatio...
Northern Ireland News, Dec 5, 2007
Christmas Posting Advice Offered
A staggering two billion cards, letters and parcels will be handled by Royal Mail during December, with 50 million of these in Northern Ireland alone. By following some simple steps customers can eas...
UK National News, Dec 5, 2007
Christmas Posting Advice Offered
A staggering two billion cards, letters and parcels will be handled by Royal Mail during December. By following some simple steps customers can ease the workload for their local postmen and women and...
UK National News, Dec 4, 2007
Met Anti-Terror Chief Resigns: But Sir Ian Stays
Britain's most senior anti-terror officer, Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Andy Hayman has announced his retirement. Mr Hayman said that his decision was prompted after "hurtful" accusatio...
Business News, Dec 4, 2007
Omagh Publican Invests £4m In Sally O'Brien's
The owner of Omagh pub and nightclub, Sally O'Brien's is undertaking a £4 million development programme which will include the building on John Street being demolished and rebuilt. John McGirr's plan...
Business News, Dec 4, 2007
Topglass Contracts Invest Over £1m In Premises
Decorative and architectural glass specialist Topglass Contracts has invested over £1m in state-of-the-art manufacturing and display premises in Toome, and in initiatives to grow exports through the d...
Business News, Dec 4, 2007
Derry Chamber Chief Executive Gets Behind Connect2
North West businesses have been urged by Derry Chamber Chief Executive Janice Tracey to support the Sustrans Connect2 bid. Indicating that benefits will be seen across the city, she said she was conf...
UK National News, Dec 4, 2007
Compensation For Stuart Lubbock's Father
The father of Stuart Lubbock, who was found dead in a swimming pool in the former home of entertainer Michael Barrymore, has been awarded £6,800 in criminal injuries compensation over the death. Terr...
UK National News, Dec 4, 2007
Chemical Hazard Alert As Pupil Sprays Classroom
Five pupils and a teacher have been injured in a chemical incident at a North Wales school. Firefighters were called to Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle, Penygroes in Caernarfon after a student sprayed a cleani...
Northern Ireland News, Dec 4, 2007
Talks To Avert Christmas Strike At Aer Lingus Continue
Aer Lingus passengers, those hoping to fly to or from Dublin or from this month Belfast, could be in for a difficult Christmas. The latest round of fruitless negotiations in the Aer Lingus dispute to...
Recruitment News, Dec 4, 2007
11-plus Scrapped
The traditional 11-plus transfer test will no longer be taking place, replaced instead by a new concept of transfer to secondary education at age 14. Testing of Northern Ireland's P7 children will be...
UK National News, Dec 4, 2007
Sudan Teacher Returns To The UK
A British teacher who was jailed in Sudan after allowing her pupils to name a teddy bear Muhammad has returned to the UK. Gillian Gibbons, 54, from Liverpool spent more than a week in jail for insult...
UK National News, Dec 4, 2007
Gang Sought Over Reading Armed Robbery
Police in Reading have appealed for information about an armed gang who held two at knife point a bedroom of a house while they ransacked it. Three men entered the house in St Michael's Road in Tileh...
Northern Ireland News, Dec 4, 2007
Fatal Shot Fired In Self Defence, Inquest Told
An inquest has been told of how a Glengormley man was shot dead by police investigating a domestic incident. A 30 year-old unemployed man, James Alfred Cornhill, was killed by a police officer defend...
UK National News, Dec 4, 2007
Rachel Nickell Murder Accused Appears In Court
A 41-year-old man has appeared in court charged with the murder of former model Rachel Nickell on Wimbledon Common 15 years ago. Robert Napper appeared at City of Westminster Magistrates' Court today...
Northern Ireland News, Dec 4, 2007
Road Toll Hits Seven As Elderly Pedestrian Dies
A 75-year-old man has died following a road traffic collision near Crumlin, County Antrim. Bringing Northern Ireland's road toll to seven since Friday, the elderly man has died after being struck by...
Northern Ireland News, Dec 4, 2007
Body Discovered In Burnt Out Car
A horrific discovery was made yesterday morning when a burnt out car containing a body was found. Police are set to resume their examination of the scene at Gortin Glen Forest Park near Omagh in Coun...
UK National News, Dec 4, 2007
Meredith Murder Suspect To Be Extradited
A man suspected of involvement in the murder of British student Meredith Kercher in Italy is to be extradited from Germany, it has been announced. Ivory Coast national Rudy Hermann Guede, 20, was arr...
Northern Ireland News, Dec 4, 2007
Funds Warning For Grammar Schools Testing At 11-plus
The traditional 11-plus transfer test will no longer be taking place, replaced instead by a new concept of transfer to secondary education at age 14. Testing of Northern Ireland's P7 children will be...
Northern Ireland News, Dec 4, 2007
Regeneration Project Reaps Rewards For Consarc
Northern Ireland architectural company, the Consarc Design Group, has beaten off stiff competition to secure a highly acclaimed RICS Award (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors), for its conversio...
Northern Ireland News, Dec 4, 2007
Derry Man Faces Drugs Trial
A police search of a Londonderry man's home last year has led to a court appearance on drugs charges. A 26-year-old computer technician from the Bogside area of Derry has admitted being in possession...
UK National News, Dec 4, 2007
Two In Court Over Teenager's Murder
Two teenager boys have appeared in court charged with the murder of another schoolboy in Essex last week. Jack Large, 14, was stabbed in the head and back near his home in Grange Hill on Friday. He ...
Northern Ireland News, Dec 4, 2007
Cowardly Attacker Who Terrifies His Mother Is Jailed
A savage and cowardly attack by a man who beat-up his own mother has led to a jail term. A judge at Londonderry Crown Court told Gerald McKinney, 25, that the attack - when he hit her up to nine time...
Recruitment News, Dec 4, 2007
Challenge Issued On Post Primary Selection
An educational lobby group dedicated to retaining academic selection has directly challenged Education Minister Caitriona Ruane by devising an alternative transfer test. The test is likely to be used...