Northern Ireland News for June 2008 : Page 6

UK National News, Jun 19, 2008
Toddler Killed At Highland Show
A toddler has been killed in an accident at Edinburgh's Royal Highland Show. The three-year-old boy was admitted to The Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh with serious head injuries at 1.3...
UK National News, Jun 19, 2008
Figures Show Abortion Increase In Teenage Girls
New figures published today have shown a rise in abortions among young girls. The Department of Health has released statistics revealing how many women had abortions in 2007. The number of abortions...
UK National News, Jun 19, 2008
Detainees Escape Oxfordshire Detention Centre
Four immigration detainees have escaped an Oxfordshire centre overnight. Police hunting the fugitives have closed a road leading to Campsfield House in Kidlington and are searching the area. A Home ...
UK National News, Jun 19, 2008
Police Hunt Man In Rape Case
Police are hunting a man in connection with the alleged repeated rape of an 11-year-old girl. Colin Anthony Miller, 28, is being sought by the London Metropolitan Police's Child Abuse Investigation C...
UK National News, Jun 19, 2008
Three Accused Of Soldier Manslaughter
The jury has been selected to try three soldiers accused of killing a junior soldier through an informal punishment. Private Gavin Williams, 22, died at Lucknow Barracks in Tidworth, Wiltshire, on 3 ...
UK National News, Jun 19, 2008
DVD Launched In Tribute To Train Death Victim
An educational DVD highlighting the dangers of trespassing on railways has been launched at a Kent school today. Titled 'Jade's Story', the DVD is a tribute to Jade Kenyon, a 17-year-old schoolgirl f...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 19, 2008
Cross Border Team To Tackle Fuel Faudsters
Law enforcement agencies from both Northern Ireland and the Republic are to establish a new cross-border group to tackle fuel fraud. The joining of forces will provide a new approach to combat the m...
UK National News, Jun 19, 2008
Bristol Is Wheelie Good City
Bristol could give Amsterdam a run for its money as it has been appointed the UK's first official Cycling City. Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly made the announcement which is part of a £100 million Go...
UK National News, Jun 19, 2008
OTHER NEWS IN BRIEF
Five Men Charged With Murder Over Teen Death Five men are to appear in court charged with beating a teenage boy to death. Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim, 17, was attacked in Sefton Park, Liverpool, in the ear...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 19, 2008
Court Date In 'Dog Walker Stabbing' Case
A man has been charged with attacking two men standing outside a bar in west Belfast earlier this month. The attack took place on the Springfield Road where the pair were injured by a man apparently ...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 19, 2008
Crime Busters Successful
At the same time as an announcement that criminal assets worth more than £35m have been seized or frozen during the last year by law enforcement agencies in Northern Ireland, it has also emerged that ...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 19, 2008
Less Road Deaths - Despite Mum And Baby Tragedy
Despite the recent road tragedy just across the border that left a teenage mum and child dead, it has emerged that NI statistics are actually more positive than the immediate situation appears to sugg...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 19, 2008
Royal Infection 'Contributed' To Three Deaths
Three patients at a top Belfast hospital have died following an outbreak of a serious infection in the facility. Belfast Health and Social Trust said five patients were confirmed as suffering from li...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 19, 2008
Lyric Stoops To Conquer
Thanks in large part to a Belfast City Council investment of ₤1.25m the demolition of Belfast's Lyric Theatre later today is a new start - and not the end of the iconic south Belfast stage - whi...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 19, 2008
Donegal Teen's Killing 'Collusion': PSNI
The family of a Protestant Donegal teenager murdered by the UVF 35 years ago have said detectives have found evidence of security force collusion in the case. The PSNI in Northern Ireland have uncove...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 19, 2008
City Of Ember Is 'Hot'
The first scenes from a Hollywood science-fiction blockbuster that was filmed in Belfast last year have been released. City of Ember, starring Bill Murray and Tim Robbins, was filmed between July and...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 19, 2008
Cardiac Facility Gives New Heart To Craigavon
Craigavon has been given a new 'heart' this week with news that the NI Health Minister Michael McGimpsey has officially opened a new £2.6 million cardiac catheterisation laboratory at Craigavon Area H...
UK National News, Jun 18, 2008
NEWS IN BRIEF
Teen Stabbed in 'Critical Condition' A teenager is in a critical condition after being stabbed in the street in south London. The 14-year-old boy was attacked on Great Dover Street, Southwark, after ...
UK National News, Jun 18, 2008
Servicewoman Among British Dead In Afghanistan
The death toll continues to rise in Afghanistan as four British troops, including a woman, have been killed in an explosion. While the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has confirmed the deaths of an Intelli...
UK National News, Jun 18, 2008
Man Charged With Missing Wife's Murder
A man has been charged with murdering his wife who vanished nine years ago. Maureen Hale, 42, of Thames Ditton, disappeared on 22 June 1999. The body of the mother of five has never been found. Fif...
UK National News, Jun 18, 2008
Tanker Drivers Win 14% Pay Deal
Fuel tanker drivers have been offered a 14% pay rise over two years, after their four-day strike. The dispute affected around one in 10 of Britain's petrol stations at the weekend and raised fears th...
UK National News, Jun 18, 2008
Laptops Stolen From Hospital
Six laptops containing personal information on around 20,000 patients have been stolen from a south London hospital. It is understood the computers were taken from a locked cabinet in a secure room a...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 18, 2008
NI News In Brief
Mongan Killing: Woman Freed Enquiries are continuing into the brutal murder of John Mongan, a member of the Travelling community, who was killed in his home in Fallswater Street in February. Police h...
UK National News, Jun 18, 2008
Men Found Guilty For 'Mistaken Identity' Killing
Two men have been found guilty of killing a 15-year-old boy as he slept in his south-east London home. Mohammed Sannoh, 19, of Peckham, and Abdi Omar Noor, 22, of Camberwell, have been convicted at t...
UK National News, Jun 18, 2008
Sainbury's Suspends Online Service
Sainsbury's has suspended its online grocery service after "technical difficulties". The supermarket giant was forced into the action after a computer fault was spotted on Tuesday. It is understood ...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 18, 2008
Baby Road Death Is 'Youngest Victim'
The funerals of an NI-born mother and daughter - which are due to be held on Friday in Derry - will be made all the more poignant because the baby girl killed in the Co. Donegal horror road crash this...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 18, 2008
Hopes For Peaceful 'Tour' Parade
It will be double orange squashes all round at one of this year's loyal order marches if the Orange Order succeeds in its pledge to support the police stopping people drinking alcohol at a previously ...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 18, 2008
Bull Terrier Kills Pet
Just a month after a dog killed a donkey - in a field near Ballyclare- a Limavady woman's pet dog has been killed by a bull terrier dog-type animal. It killed her family's pet in their back garden de...
UK National News, Jun 18, 2008
Girl Died From 'Misadventure', Inquest Hears
An inquest has returned a verdict of "misadventure" in relation to the death of a young girl who who fell out of a canoe. Bille Clayton, 9, had been on holiday with her twin brother, Edward and her f...
UK National News, Jun 18, 2008
England Rugby Players Investigated By New Zealand Police
Police in New Zealand are investigating a "serious allegation" concerning up to four England rugby players. It is believed that the alleged incident occurred in a private room at the Hilton Hotel in ...