Northern Ireland News for March 2007 : Page 8

Northern Ireland News, Mar 13, 2007
Further consultation on Irish language legislation expected
The Minister for Culture, Arts and Leisure, Maria Eagle, today announced that her Department is to carry out further consultation on Irish language legislation. Sinn Fein has backed the move but the ...
UK National News, Mar 13, 2007
Premiership footballer arrested over assault
Premiership footballer Joey Barton is understood to have been arrested on suspicion of assault and criminal damage. The Manchester City midfielder is reported to have been questioned in connection wi...
Northern Ireland News, Mar 13, 2007
Minister opens new renal dialysis unit at Ulster Hospital
Health Minister Paul Goggins today officially opened the new £7 million Renal Dialysis Unit at the Ulster Hospital. The new renal unit will enable the Ulster Community and Hospital Trust to increase ...
Northern Ireland News, Mar 13, 2007
Irish League stars unite for Midnight Street Soccer launch
A list of Irish League stars have joined forces with the IFA's World United Anti-Racism Team to help launch the Midnight Street Soccer initiative. Linfield’s William Murphy and Jim Ervin joined force...
Northern Ireland News, Mar 13, 2007
Board members hold round of US Meetings
Members of the Northern Ireland Policing Board will this week hold a series of meetings with key opinion formers and influencers during a 4 day working visit to Washington and New York (13-17 March 20...
UK National News, Mar 12, 2007
Seven-year-olds to learn languages
Learning a foreign language is to become compulsory for 7 to 14-year-olds in England, the government has announced. Education Secretary Alan Johnson announced that the government would back the recom...
Northern Ireland News, Mar 12, 2007
Two bodies found in Belfast
Detectives have launched two seperate murder investigations following the discovery of two bodies in Belfast. A body was found at the O’Donovan Rossa GAA club on the Falls Road, and the area from the...
UK National News, Mar 12, 2007
Aston Martin on the road home
Aston Martin is on course to return to the hands of a British consortium. The leading luxury sports car marque has been bought for £475 million by a consortium of bidders fronted by Prodrive owner Da...
UK National News, Mar 12, 2007
Government minister resigns over Trident plans
Deputy leader of the Commons Nigel Griffiths has resigned from his post in protest over the government's plans to renew the Trident nuclear weapons system. The MP for Edinburgh South, who has been an...
Northern Ireland News, Mar 12, 2007
Two die in road traffic incidents
Two men have died following separate road traffic incidents over the weekend. Damien McGovern, 17, from Drumaran in Letterbreen, near Enniskillen, died following a collision at Sligo Road in Belcoo o...
UK National News, Mar 12, 2007
British skiers die on Norwegian mountain
Two British cross-country skiers are believed to have frozen to death in blizzard conditions on a Norwegian mountain. The bodies of Peter Wilson, 18, from Inverness-shire and James Ross, 50, from Ros...
UK National News, Mar 12, 2007
Two killed in bus crash
Two women have been killed in a crash involving a bus in Cheshire. The collision happened around 8:45am on Monday morning on Mobberly Road in Knutsford. According to initial eyewitness reports, the ...
UK National News, Mar 12, 2007
Drifters involved in car crash
Soul band The Drifters have been involved in a serious car crash on the M1 in South Yorkshire. The incident happened around 12:45am on Monday morning. The crash involved two cars - a red Skoda and a ...
Northern Ireland News, Mar 12, 2007
Republican candidate remanded in custody
An independent Republican candidate has appeared in court over charges related to the attempted murder of a part-time UDR soldier in 1981. Gerry McGeough, 46, was arrested after leaving the count cen...
UK National News, Mar 12, 2007
Britons feared dead in Paris fire
Three British women are feared to have been killed in a fire in an apartment block in Paris. The women are believed to have been staying in the five-storey apartment building in Rue des Innocents in ...
UK National News, Mar 12, 2007
Search continues for missing diver
A search is continuing for a diver missing at Dorothea Quarry, near Caernarfon. The woman, who is believed to be in her 40s and from the Cheshire area, was diving with a male companion on Sunday afte...
Northern Ireland News, Mar 12, 2007
NIE cuts tariffs by 3%
Northern Ireland Electricity (NIE) has today announced a 3% reduction in electricity tariffs. Around 680,000 NIE domestic customers will see their bills reduced by around £11, the equivalent of a pri...
Northern Ireland News, Mar 12, 2007
OFT bans Northern Ireland estate agent
The OFT has made a prohibition order against a Northern Ireland estate agent banning him from estate agency work. Sidney Mawhinney was a sole trader who operated under his own name in Carryduff, Coun...
Northern Ireland News, Mar 12, 2007
Bangor man jailed after extradition on drugs charges
A Bangor man was jailed for four and a half years at Belfast Crown Court today following his extradition from Spain on HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) and PSNI warrants. Michael Thomas Francis Cahillane,...
Northern Ireland News, Mar 12, 2007
Ceremony rewards international work experience
Queen's University Belfast students who gained workplace experience in companies around the world will take part in a special ceremony on Wednesday 14 March. The event for the 160 students is the 12t...
Northern Ireland News, Mar 12, 2007
Early birds get fit at Belfast leisure centres
Wake up to exercise – that is the message from Belfast City Council, and to help even more people do just that it is extending early opening hours at its leisure centres. From Monday 2 April, more ce...
UK National News, Mar 9, 2007
Father jailed for life for child murders
A father has been jailed for life for murdering his two young children in north Wales. At Mold Crown Court on Friday, Perry Samuel, 35, admitted suffocating his daughter Caitlin, five, and three-year...
UK National News, Mar 9, 2007
UK crime boss handed seven year sentence
UK crime boss Terry Adams, 52, who had admitted conspiracy to conceal hundreds of thousands of pounds from illegal dealings, has been sentenced to seven years in jail. Last month, Adams, who ran a ma...
UK National News, Mar 9, 2007
Kidnapped Britons reported 'unharmed and safe'
Four British embassy employees who were kidnapped in Ethiopia are reported to be unharmed and safe. According to reports, the Britons - one of whom has joint Italian-British nationality - are being h...
Northern Ireland News, Mar 9, 2007
Politicians warned devolution deadline must be met
Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain has warned politicians today they must “put up or shut up” over the return to devolved government. Mr Hain has held separate talks with the DUP and Sinn Fein reg...
UK National News, Mar 9, 2007
Reward offered to catch teen's killers
Police are offering a £20,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of the killers of Manchester teenager Jessie James. Jesse, 15, was shot dead as he cycled through Broadfield Park in Mos...
Northern Ireland News, Mar 9, 2007
DUP and Sinn Fein leading in Assembly Elections
UPDATE: The Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Fein hold the majority of seats in the Northern Ireland Assembly Election. The DUP and Sinn Fein emerged considerably ahead of the other parties with ma...
UK National News, Mar 9, 2007
Mills to get £2m down payment
It is reported that Heather Mills is to get a £2 million down payment from her estranged husband. The money is to be paid as a "goodwill gesture without prejudice." A settlement case is ongoing, but...
Northern Ireland News, Mar 9, 2007
Republican candidate arrested over 'serious terrorist crime'
An Independent Republican candidate was arrested yesterday over “serious terrorist crime”. Gerry McGeough, 46, was arrested after leaving the count centre at Omagh leisure centre. The candidate in Fe...
UK National News, Mar 9, 2007
No charges over Big Brother racism row
No criminal charges will be brought in connection with the 'Celebrity Big Brother' racism row, Hertfordshire Police have confirmed. The Crown Prosecution Service ruled that what had occurred on the s...