Northern Ireland News for May 2008 : Page 10
UK National News, May 12, 2008
Fresh Hope As Maddie's Birthday Is Marked
There was a sad 'celebration' today as the parents of Madeleine McCann have been marking the fifth birthday of their missing daughter. A low-key party at their family home was held, and was primarily...
Fresh Hope As Maddie's Birthday Is Marked
There was a sad 'celebration' today as the parents of Madeleine McCann have been marking the fifth birthday of their missing daughter. A low-key party at their family home was held, and was primarily...
UK National News, May 12, 2008
Two Injured During Alleged 'Tombstoning' Incidents
During the hottest weekend of the year, which saw crowds pack out beaches throughout the UK, two men have received serious injuries following apparent 'tombstoning' incidents. On Saturday a 20-year-o...
Two Injured During Alleged 'Tombstoning' Incidents
During the hottest weekend of the year, which saw crowds pack out beaches throughout the UK, two men have received serious injuries following apparent 'tombstoning' incidents. On Saturday a 20-year-o...
UK National News, May 12, 2008
Rail Strike Looms
Transport across the whole of mainland Britain may be disrupted soon as the threat of the first national rail strike for 14 years looms. The rail industry's biggest union has announced it was balloti...
Rail Strike Looms
Transport across the whole of mainland Britain may be disrupted soon as the threat of the first national rail strike for 14 years looms. The rail industry's biggest union has announced it was balloti...
UK National News, May 12, 2008
Jimmy Mizen Murder Witness Responds To Police Appeal
Following the unprovoked murder of teenager Jimmy Mizen at a London bakery over the weekend, a witness has come forward in response to police appeals. The 16-year-old victim was at the Three Cooks Ba...
Jimmy Mizen Murder Witness Responds To Police Appeal
Following the unprovoked murder of teenager Jimmy Mizen at a London bakery over the weekend, a witness has come forward in response to police appeals. The 16-year-old victim was at the Three Cooks Ba...
UK National News, May 12, 2008
Can Queen's Speech 'Save' Brown
Gordon Brown is expected to use this week's Queen's Speech programme to try to reclaim the political initiative after last week's disastrous showing for Labour in the local council elections. He is s...
Can Queen's Speech 'Save' Brown
Gordon Brown is expected to use this week's Queen's Speech programme to try to reclaim the political initiative after last week's disastrous showing for Labour in the local council elections. He is s...
Recruitment News, May 12, 2008
Dungloe Gaeltacht Jobs Boost Announced
A much-needed employment boost is heading for an area of the north west that has previously seen numerous jobs lost. Some 135 jobs are to be created in the Donegal Gaeltacht, the first major employme...
Dungloe Gaeltacht Jobs Boost Announced
A much-needed employment boost is heading for an area of the north west that has previously seen numerous jobs lost. Some 135 jobs are to be created in the Donegal Gaeltacht, the first major employme...
Recruitment News, May 12, 2008
Aer Lingus Boss's Pay Award Inflames Union
A leading trade union within the transport industry has begun moves towards industrial action in a long-running dispute over pay at Aer Lingus - which has been exacerbated by large rises for senior ex...
Aer Lingus Boss's Pay Award Inflames Union
A leading trade union within the transport industry has begun moves towards industrial action in a long-running dispute over pay at Aer Lingus - which has been exacerbated by large rises for senior ex...
UK National News, May 12, 2008
Baby Remains Found In Audenshaw House
Police in Greater Manchester are investigating the discovery of two babies whose remains were found in a box at a house in the Audenshaw area. It is understood the relative of an elderly woman who ha...
Baby Remains Found In Audenshaw House
Police in Greater Manchester are investigating the discovery of two babies whose remains were found in a box at a house in the Audenshaw area. It is understood the relative of an elderly woman who ha...
Northern Ireland News, May 12, 2008
Weekend News In Brief
Woman Tied Up As Home Ransacked A woman is recovering after she was tied to a chair by four men during a burglary in County Down. It happened at a house in Tullyah Road, Belleeks, at about 11.40pm on...
Weekend News In Brief
Woman Tied Up As Home Ransacked A woman is recovering after she was tied to a chair by four men during a burglary in County Down. It happened at a house in Tullyah Road, Belleeks, at about 11.40pm on...
UK National News, May 12, 2008
PM Pledges Reform Of Elderly Care
As the percentage of the population in the older age categories expand, the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown has pledged "fundamental reform to social care of the elderly and disabled" in England as the G...
PM Pledges Reform Of Elderly Care
As the percentage of the population in the older age categories expand, the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown has pledged "fundamental reform to social care of the elderly and disabled" in England as the G...
Northern Ireland News, May 12, 2008
Family Speak Of Heartache After Bushmills Builder Killed
The family of a workman killed in a tragic dumper-truck crash, at a County Antrim building site on Friday, have spoken for the first time about their heartache. Colin Glass's brother-in-law revealed...
Family Speak Of Heartache After Bushmills Builder Killed
The family of a workman killed in a tragic dumper-truck crash, at a County Antrim building site on Friday, have spoken for the first time about their heartache. Colin Glass's brother-in-law revealed...
UK National News, May 12, 2008
Angry Owner 'Saw' Car Clamped
When a Gloucestershire builder came home to find a 'work-in-progress' car repair project clamped by what he branded over officious 'jobsworths' he took matters into his own hands. Ian Taylor, from Tr...
Angry Owner 'Saw' Car Clamped
When a Gloucestershire builder came home to find a 'work-in-progress' car repair project clamped by what he branded over officious 'jobsworths' he took matters into his own hands. Ian Taylor, from Tr...
Northern Ireland News, May 12, 2008
Omagh Trial Delayed
On the same day that a man was due to appear at Belfast Crown Court - charged with the murder of Robert McCartney (33), who was beaten and stabbed to death outside a bar near Belfast city centre on in...
Omagh Trial Delayed
On the same day that a man was due to appear at Belfast Crown Court - charged with the murder of Robert McCartney (33), who was beaten and stabbed to death outside a bar near Belfast city centre on in...
UK National News, May 12, 2008
British Energy Sign £10m Contract
British Energy, the UK's largest electricity supplier, has signed a £10 million, seven-year partnership contract with Flagship Training (Flagship) to deliver its apprentice programme from September 20...
British Energy Sign £10m Contract
British Energy, the UK's largest electricity supplier, has signed a £10 million, seven-year partnership contract with Flagship Training (Flagship) to deliver its apprentice programme from September 20...
UK National News, May 12, 2008
Centrica To Hike Gas Prices Again
Centrica, the owner of British Gas, has warned households of a potential further 30% rise in gas bills by next winter. The company said its Group operating profit for the first half of the year will ...
Centrica To Hike Gas Prices Again
Centrica, the owner of British Gas, has warned households of a potential further 30% rise in gas bills by next winter. The company said its Group operating profit for the first half of the year will ...
Northern Ireland News, May 12, 2008
Fujitsu Consolidates Position With 150 More Jobs
Following last week's high profile US-NI Investment Conference, Northern Ireland's good news continues. Economy Minister, Nigel Dodds has now announced an £8.8 million investment by Fujitsu Services,...
Fujitsu Consolidates Position With 150 More Jobs
Following last week's high profile US-NI Investment Conference, Northern Ireland's good news continues. Economy Minister, Nigel Dodds has now announced an £8.8 million investment by Fujitsu Services,...
Northern Ireland News, May 12, 2008
Troubled Weekend In NI
It has been a troubled few days with reports of disturbances in the Castlereagh area of east Belfast last night, and two serious arson attacks in different areas of Northern Ireland earlier in what ha...
Troubled Weekend In NI
It has been a troubled few days with reports of disturbances in the Castlereagh area of east Belfast last night, and two serious arson attacks in different areas of Northern Ireland earlier in what ha...
Northern Ireland News, May 12, 2008
Rape Accused For Court
A man has been charged with raping a woman in the Dungannon area at the weekend while another is to appear in court over a rape in Belfast last month. The 20-year-old is accused of sexually assaul...
Rape Accused For Court
A man has been charged with raping a woman in the Dungannon area at the weekend while another is to appear in court over a rape in Belfast last month. The 20-year-old is accused of sexually assaul...
Northern Ireland News, May 12, 2008
Selection Row Won't Displace Ruane: Sinn Féin
Continuing controversy over the long-awaited replacement for the ditched 11+ transfer test won't provoke a sideways move for the beleaguered Sinn Féin Education Minister, Caitríona Ruane. There are ...
Selection Row Won't Displace Ruane: Sinn Féin
Continuing controversy over the long-awaited replacement for the ditched 11+ transfer test won't provoke a sideways move for the beleaguered Sinn Féin Education Minister, Caitríona Ruane. There are ...
Northern Ireland News, May 12, 2008
McCord Killers Taken To Book
THE father of UVF murder victim Raymond McCord Jnr has recalled the agony of the moment when he found out his son was dead in a new book to be published this week. Justice for Raymond by Raymond McCo...
McCord Killers Taken To Book
THE father of UVF murder victim Raymond McCord Jnr has recalled the agony of the moment when he found out his son was dead in a new book to be published this week. Justice for Raymond by Raymond McCo...
Northern Ireland News, May 12, 2008
House Prices Must Fall Back By Two Years: RSCS
Hot on the heels of figures which showed the number of house repossessions in Northern Ireland rose by a third in the first quarter of the year - from 566 to 754 - an expert has claimed that prices wi...
House Prices Must Fall Back By Two Years: RSCS
Hot on the heels of figures which showed the number of house repossessions in Northern Ireland rose by a third in the first quarter of the year - from 566 to 754 - an expert has claimed that prices wi...
Northern Ireland News, May 12, 2008
Biker Death Is Year's Fourth Tragedy
The death of an injured motorcyclist at the weekend brought to four the number of such road users killed this year on local roads, while at the same time, an inquest has been told of how excessive spe...
Biker Death Is Year's Fourth Tragedy
The death of an injured motorcyclist at the weekend brought to four the number of such road users killed this year on local roads, while at the same time, an inquest has been told of how excessive spe...
UK National News, May 9, 2008
Schoolboy Killers Sentenced To Life
Two teenagers have been given life sentences for the murder of a schoolboy. Kodja Yenga, 16, was stabbed in the heart in a gang ambush in Hammersmith, west London, in March last year. Tirrel Davis, ...
Schoolboy Killers Sentenced To Life
Two teenagers have been given life sentences for the murder of a schoolboy. Kodja Yenga, 16, was stabbed in the heart in a gang ambush in Hammersmith, west London, in March last year. Tirrel Davis, ...
UK National News, May 9, 2008
Police Investigate Purple Liquid At Harrow Explosion
A house that was blown up in what was though initially to be a suspected gas explosion in Harrow had been targeted and vandalised, police have now said. Police were called to the residential property...
Police Investigate Purple Liquid At Harrow Explosion
A house that was blown up in what was though initially to be a suspected gas explosion in Harrow had been targeted and vandalised, police have now said. Police were called to the residential property...
Northern Ireland News, May 9, 2008
NI News In Brief
Train Tape Shock A young woman who found a tape cassette while travelling on a local train has found it was a recording of an interview with the PSNI and a convicted sex offender. She was travelling ...
NI News In Brief
Train Tape Shock A young woman who found a tape cassette while travelling on a local train has found it was a recording of an interview with the PSNI and a convicted sex offender. She was travelling ...
UK National News, May 9, 2008
Police Search For Psychiatric Patient On The Run
Police are searching for a young woman who has escaped from a psychiatric unit in Bury. Carrie McCarten, 21, from Everton, went missing at around 12.30 on Wednesday on a visit to the dentists in Bury...
Police Search For Psychiatric Patient On The Run
Police are searching for a young woman who has escaped from a psychiatric unit in Bury. Carrie McCarten, 21, from Everton, went missing at around 12.30 on Wednesday on a visit to the dentists in Bury...
UK National News, May 9, 2008
Sex Killer Sentenced To 35 Years
A convicted rapist has been jailed for 35 years for the sexual assault, rape and murder of a young girl. Michael Clark, 40, was handed down the sentence at Sheffield Crown Court for the killing of 14...
Sex Killer Sentenced To 35 Years
A convicted rapist has been jailed for 35 years for the sexual assault, rape and murder of a young girl. Michael Clark, 40, was handed down the sentence at Sheffield Crown Court for the killing of 14...
UK National News, May 9, 2008
Finchley Body Find Leads To Arrest
A man has been arrested in Finchley on suspicion of murder. A woman's body, believed to be in her 60's, was found in Station Road in the early hours of this morning. The man who is thought to be in ...
Finchley Body Find Leads To Arrest
A man has been arrested in Finchley on suspicion of murder. A woman's body, believed to be in her 60's, was found in Station Road in the early hours of this morning. The man who is thought to be in ...
UK National News, May 9, 2008
Queen's Speech To Boost Home Ownership
Fresh from his 'sales-pitch' for bringing investment and jobs to Northern Ireland at this week's US-NI Investment Conference, the Prime Minister is now planning a scheme to boost home ownership. Usin...
Queen's Speech To Boost Home Ownership
Fresh from his 'sales-pitch' for bringing investment and jobs to Northern Ireland at this week's US-NI Investment Conference, the Prime Minister is now planning a scheme to boost home ownership. Usin...
UK National News, May 9, 2008
Network Rail Handed £14 Million Fine By Regulator
Network Rail have been handed a £14 million fine for overrunning engineering work. The penalty has been imposed by the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) for "systematic weaknesses" in NR's "planning an...
Network Rail Handed £14 Million Fine By Regulator
Network Rail have been handed a £14 million fine for overrunning engineering work. The penalty has been imposed by the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) for "systematic weaknesses" in NR's "planning an...
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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.
