Northern Ireland News for June 2007 : Page 11

UK National News, Jun 5, 2007
Bodies exhumed in care home deaths investigation
Police investigating suspicious deaths at a Somerset care home are to exhume three bodies to examine for signs of drug poisoning. The body of Nellie 'Mary' Pickford, who died at Parkfields residentia...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 5, 2007
Pensioner knocked to ground during robbery
Detectives in Newtownards are appealing for information following a robbery at Main Street, Ballywalter. A 70-year-old woman had been making her way from Ballywalter Bowling Club to Ballywalter at ar...
UK National News, Jun 5, 2007
Image released in Manchester rape case
Police have released a CCTV image of a man that they want to speak to in connection with the rape of a 13-year-old girl in Greater Manchester. The attack happened on May 29. The girl got on the 256 b...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 5, 2007
Adoption legislation changes dismissed
A legal bid to overturn legislation banning unmarried couples from adopting has been dismissed by a judge in Northern Ireland’s Court of Appeal. The couple launched the case concerning a 10-year-old ...
UK National News, Jun 5, 2007
Channel 4 to broadcast Diana crash photos
Channel 4 has insisted that it will broadcast photos of the car crash in which Princess Diana died, in spite of a plea from her sons. The private secretary to Prince William and Prince Harry wrote to...
Recruitment News, Jun 5, 2007
Ministers Welcome Alan Johnston To Northern Ireland
The Employment and Learning Minister, Sir Reg Empey, and the Education Minister, Caitríona Ruane, welcomed the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, Alan Johnson to Parliament Buildings. Welco...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 5, 2007
Minister praises pupils involved with Eco-Schools
Education Minister Caitríona Ruane has praised the work of pupils involved in transforming their schools to Eco-status. Speaking at Belfast’s Grand Opera House, Ms Ruane stressed the importance of ma...
Recruitment News, Jun 5, 2007
Delivering Success Through Excellence In Training
NI Assembly Employment and Learning Minister, Sir Reg Empey, has underlined his commitment to providing young people with quality, professional and technical training. He was speaking at the launch o...
Recruitment News, Jun 5, 2007
Minister Confirms Extra €15.8m Funding For UCC
The Irish Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Micheál Martin, has announced additional funding of €15.86m to develop the Tyndall Institute at University College Cork into a world-class rese...
UK National News, Jun 5, 2007
Madeleine's parents in 'Crimewatch' appeal
The parents of missing British girl Madeleine McCann are to make an appeal on BBC One's 'Crimewatch' programme tonight. In the programme, which will be broadcast at 9pm, Kate McCann will show a pair ...
Business News, Jun 5, 2007
Chainreaction Cycles goes from strength to strength
Established in 1984, Chainreaction Cycles (CRC) started out as a small independent bike shop, but from the humble beginnings CRC has gone from strength to strength thanks to the keen eye of Managing D...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 5, 2007
Senator Hayes delivers Peace speech
Senator Maurice Hayes last night delivered the latest in the Tip O’Neill at the University of Ulster’s Magee campus. Addressing an invited in the Great Hall, Senator Hayes took as his theme ‘Moving O...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 5, 2007
Local beaches awarded Blue Flags
Eight beaches in Northern Ireland have been awarded Blue Flags on meeting the guideline standards. Last year the same number of awards were given to beaches with litter-free sands and bathing waters....
UK National News, Jun 5, 2007
Woman bailed over collection con
A woman has been arrested on suspicion of making bogus collections in Staffordshire for the family of missing British girl Madeleine McCann. The 33-year-old woman from Chadsmoor in Cannock had been m...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 5, 2007
Lisburn KFC fined over undercooked food
A Northern Ireland Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) outlet has been fined for selling undercooked food. The KFC franchise in Lisburn’s Governor’s Road was fined a total of £9,000 after a customer complai...
UK National News, Jun 5, 2007
Fire extinguished at chemical plant
A fire at a chemical plant in Crewe has been extinguished. An investigation is underway into the cause of the blaze at the Aztec Chemicals plant on the Crewe Gates Industrial Estate, which broke out ...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 5, 2007
RSPB to showcase ‘wildlife friendly’ garden
Over the past number of months, RSPB NI staff, volunteers and professionals have been working at Hillsborough Castle to ensure that the RSPB’s garden will be completed in time for Garden Show Ireland ...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 4, 2007
Teenage girls in hospital following explosion
Two teenage girls are in hospital after a gas cylinder exploded in a house in east Belfast. The derelict house on Tildarg Street, off the Woodstock Road collapsed following the explosion at 3pm on Su...
UK National News, Jun 4, 2007
Man sectioned after daughter is injured
A businessman has been sectioned under the Mental Health Act after his two-year-old daughter was found suffering from life threatening head injuries. Alberto Izaga, 36, an executive with insurance co...
UK National News, Jun 4, 2007
Body found in search for missing woman
Police searching for missing Surrey woman Kate Beagley have confirmed that a body has been found in woods near Watford in Hertfordshire. Ms Beagley, 32, from Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, disappeared aft...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 4, 2007
Pensioner’s mobile home set alight
A pensioner has escaped with minor injuries after thieves set fire to his mobile home in County Antrim. The 66-year-old man was woken at around 11am on Sunday by two men banging on his door of the mo...
UK National News, Jun 4, 2007
Murder charge mum found hanged in cell
A woman accused of murdering her son has been found hanged in her prison cell. Helen Cole, 48, was found dead at Styal prison in Wilmslow in Cheshire on Sunday morning. Staff were unable to resuscit...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 4, 2007
‘Crude’ bomb found at housing estate
A bomb has been found in a residential area of south Belfast, the Police Service of Northern Ireland have revealed. The device, described by a police spokesperson as “crude but viable”, was discovere...
UK National News, Jun 4, 2007
Man and two children killed in fire
A man and two children have been killed in a house fire in Devon. The blaze at the property in Gowmans Terrace in North Tawnton was reported after midnight and was eventually extinguished around 1:40...
UK National News, Jun 4, 2007
Brothers in court over boat captain's death
Two brothers are due to appear in court charged with the murder of a pleasure boat captain. Christopher Liddard, 26, of Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire and his 21-year-old brother Andrew, from Harlow in Ess...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 4, 2007
Police investigate murder of doorman
Police are investigating the murder of a man who was shot while sleeping in his bed in County Londonderry. Brian McGlynn, 28, was in bed in his home in the Fountain Hill area of the Waterside when tw...
UK National News, Jun 4, 2007
Fire crews tackle chemical plant fire
Firefighters are battling a large blaze at a chemical plant in Crewe. A 600-metre exclusion zone has been set up at the Aztec Chemicals plant, which makes aerosol products, on the Crewe Gates Industr...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 4, 2007
Flooding in Ormeau 'risk' until 2009
Residents of the Lower Ormeau area of south Belfast have been told flooding will pose a risk to their homes until a new sewerage system is put into place in 2009. The news comes after raw sewage floo...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 4, 2007
Take away driver hijacked in west Belfast
Detectives are appealing for information following a hijacking incident that took place in the early hours of Monday morning. A masked man brandishing a shotgun approached a 23-year-old take away dri...
UK National News, Jun 4, 2007
Killer's home searched in hunt for missing teenager
The former home of convicted sex killer Peter Tobin is being searched as part of an inquiry into the disappearance of Scottish teenager Vicky Hamilton. Vicky, 15, was last seen waiting for a bus in B...