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Northern Ireland News for October 2009 : Page 8
UK National News, Oct 19, 2009
'Tough Action' On Climate Change: PM
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has warned that "tough action" is needed on climate change. Speaking at the Major Economies Forum in London, which was comprised of representatives of 17 of the world's bi...
'Tough Action' On Climate Change: PM
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has warned that "tough action" is needed on climate change. Speaking at the Major Economies Forum in London, which was comprised of representatives of 17 of the world's bi...
UK National News, Oct 19, 2009
Father In 'Honour Killing' Trial Collapses
The man who is on trial for the alleged "honour killing" of his teenage daughter has collapsed at the Old Bailey. Mehmet Goren, 49, who is on trial for the murder of his 15-year-old daughter Tulay, i...
Father In 'Honour Killing' Trial Collapses
The man who is on trial for the alleged "honour killing" of his teenage daughter has collapsed at the Old Bailey. Mehmet Goren, 49, who is on trial for the murder of his 15-year-old daughter Tulay, i...
UK National News, Oct 19, 2009
Parents To Be Offered Choice On School Start Age
Parents in England are to be given the opportunity to place their children in a school or nursery by the age of four, under new plans announced by School Secretary Ed Balls today. From September 2011...
Parents To Be Offered Choice On School Start Age
Parents in England are to be given the opportunity to place their children in a school or nursery by the age of four, under new plans announced by School Secretary Ed Balls today. From September 2011...
Business News, Oct 19, 2009
Erne's Best Broadcasts To German Market
A crew from a German TV channel VOX TV was filming in one of Northern Ireland's most picturesque areas during September. They followed a German family, Martin and Barbara Baumann and their children, ...
Erne's Best Broadcasts To German Market
A crew from a German TV channel VOX TV was filming in one of Northern Ireland's most picturesque areas during September. They followed a German family, Martin and Barbara Baumann and their children, ...
UK National News, Oct 19, 2009
FSA Sets Out Major Reforms For The Mortgage Market
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) today set out proposals for the major reforms required in the UK mortgage market to ensure that it works better for consumers and is sustainable for all market p...
FSA Sets Out Major Reforms For The Mortgage Market
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) today set out proposals for the major reforms required in the UK mortgage market to ensure that it works better for consumers and is sustainable for all market p...
UK National News, Oct 19, 2009
ACAS To Arbitrate Royal Mail Dispute
The Royal Mail is calling in conciliation service ACAS in a last-minute bid to halt pending strike action. They are making a final effort to resolve its industrial dispute and to see if unions will a...
ACAS To Arbitrate Royal Mail Dispute
The Royal Mail is calling in conciliation service ACAS in a last-minute bid to halt pending strike action. They are making a final effort to resolve its industrial dispute and to see if unions will a...
UK National News, Oct 19, 2009
Police Win Conviction Deletion Appeal
Five police forces have won an appeal to retain criminal convictions records on their databases. The forces challenged a ruling that if upheld would have forced them to delete conviction details of a...
Police Win Conviction Deletion Appeal
Five police forces have won an appeal to retain criminal convictions records on their databases. The forces challenged a ruling that if upheld would have forced them to delete conviction details of a...
UK National News, Oct 19, 2009
Footballer Stabbed During Nottinghamshire Football Match
Police in Nottinghamshire have launched an investigation after a footballer was stabbed at half-time during a Sunday league football match. Officers were called to Bestwood Workshops in Bestwood Vill...
Footballer Stabbed During Nottinghamshire Football Match
Police in Nottinghamshire have launched an investigation after a footballer was stabbed at half-time during a Sunday league football match. Officers were called to Bestwood Workshops in Bestwood Vill...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 19, 2009
Belfast Car Bomb Admitted
A republican dissident splinter group called Oglaigh na hEireann has admitted planting an under-car bomb that injured the girlfriend of a police officer in east Belfast. Using a recognised codeword t...
Belfast Car Bomb Admitted
A republican dissident splinter group called Oglaigh na hEireann has admitted planting an under-car bomb that injured the girlfriend of a police officer in east Belfast. Using a recognised codeword t...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 19, 2009
US-Backed Jobs Boost Announced
There's good news on the way for Northern Ireland which is to receive major US investment creating hundreds of jobs. Details of the high-profile project were unveiled this morning - with the dramati...
US-Backed Jobs Boost Announced
There's good news on the way for Northern Ireland which is to receive major US investment creating hundreds of jobs. Details of the high-profile project were unveiled this morning - with the dramati...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 19, 2009
Border Bomb 'Hoax' Suspects Freed
There is to be no further action against those arrested over last week's major border security alert. The two men arrested in connection with the elaborate bomb hoax in a border village have been rel...
Border Bomb 'Hoax' Suspects Freed
There is to be no further action against those arrested over last week's major border security alert. The two men arrested in connection with the elaborate bomb hoax in a border village have been rel...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 19, 2009
Olympics Get 'Stamp Of Approval'
The Olympics are coming – with Royal Mail putting aside its industrial relations problems by commissioning some of Britain's top artists and illustrators to create three sets of stamps, to be issued o...
Olympics Get 'Stamp Of Approval'
The Olympics are coming – with Royal Mail putting aside its industrial relations problems by commissioning some of Britain's top artists and illustrators to create three sets of stamps, to be issued o...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 19, 2009
BMA Chairman Backs Front Line Services
There's a new face representing Northern Ireland's medical professionals. The British Medical Association (BMA) has this morning announced the appointment of a new NI chairman - and he has plunged st...
BMA Chairman Backs Front Line Services
There's a new face representing Northern Ireland's medical professionals. The British Medical Association (BMA) has this morning announced the appointment of a new NI chairman - and he has plunged st...
UK National News, Oct 19, 2009
Gately Article Provokes Complaints
Just hours after the singer's cremation, police have received a complaint about an article written by a UK newspaper columnist about the death of Boyzone singer Stephen Gately. Scotland Yard said it ...
Gately Article Provokes Complaints
Just hours after the singer's cremation, police have received a complaint about an article written by a UK newspaper columnist about the death of Boyzone singer Stephen Gately. Scotland Yard said it ...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 19, 2009
Digital TV Software Firm Makes Top 50
A provider of software based conditional access and middleware technology for the digital Pay TV industry, Latens, has announced that it has been awarded a ranking at number 17 in the Deloitte Technol...
Digital TV Software Firm Makes Top 50
A provider of software based conditional access and middleware technology for the digital Pay TV industry, Latens, has announced that it has been awarded a ranking at number 17 in the Deloitte Technol...
UK National News, Oct 19, 2009
Government To Fund National Film Centre
A new state-of-the-art film centre is to be created on London's South Bank, thanks to a Government commitment of £45 million, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has announced. The British Film Institute (BF...
Government To Fund National Film Centre
A new state-of-the-art film centre is to be created on London's South Bank, thanks to a Government commitment of £45 million, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has announced. The British Film Institute (BF...
Business News, Oct 19, 2009
Cork Funds Operation Goes To China
A Cork-based financial institution has been 'Shanghaied'. The Minister for Trade and Commerce Billy Kelleher has launched Apex Fund Services Ltd's new fund administration operation in Shanghai, China...
Cork Funds Operation Goes To China
A Cork-based financial institution has been 'Shanghaied'. The Minister for Trade and Commerce Billy Kelleher has launched Apex Fund Services Ltd's new fund administration operation in Shanghai, China...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 19, 2009
Mobile Success For SLA
Rapid overseas expansion and a string of international deals with some of the world's biggest mobile brands have helped power SLA Mobile to third place in Ireland's high-tech company leader board. Th...
Mobile Success For SLA
Rapid overseas expansion and a string of international deals with some of the world's biggest mobile brands have helped power SLA Mobile to third place in Ireland's high-tech company leader board. Th...
UK National News, Oct 19, 2009
Other News In Brief
Stamp Of Approval The Olympics are coming – with Royal Mail putting aside its industrial relations problems by commissioning some of Britain's top artists and illustrators to create three sets of sta...
Other News In Brief
Stamp Of Approval The Olympics are coming – with Royal Mail putting aside its industrial relations problems by commissioning some of Britain's top artists and illustrators to create three sets of sta...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 19, 2009
Other NI News In Brief
Picture Perfect Judging has taken place for the 26th annual photographic competition at Belfast Zoological Gardens. With almost 300 entries this year, competition was fierce and the standard of entri...
Other NI News In Brief
Picture Perfect Judging has taken place for the 26th annual photographic competition at Belfast Zoological Gardens. With almost 300 entries this year, competition was fierce and the standard of entri...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 16, 2009
Belfast Blast 'Cowardly', Says MLA
The security forces are back on alert this morning following a bomb explosion underneath a car in east Belfast. The area around the property at Kingsdale Park was cordoned off earlier and the Gilnahi...
Belfast Blast 'Cowardly', Says MLA
The security forces are back on alert this morning following a bomb explosion underneath a car in east Belfast. The area around the property at Kingsdale Park was cordoned off earlier and the Gilnahi...
Recruitment News, Oct 16, 2009
Building Jobs Boost At Cultra Manor
Seven local firms have been invited to tender for a huge restoration project at one of Co Down's best known listed properties. NI Finance Minister, Sammy Wilson has revealed that each of the firms h...
Building Jobs Boost At Cultra Manor
Seven local firms have been invited to tender for a huge restoration project at one of Co Down's best known listed properties. NI Finance Minister, Sammy Wilson has revealed that each of the firms h...
Business News, Oct 16, 2009
Mobile Success For SLA
Rapid overseas expansion and a string of international deals with some of the world's biggest mobile brands have helped power SLA Mobile to third place in Ireland's high-tech company leader board. Th...
Mobile Success For SLA
Rapid overseas expansion and a string of international deals with some of the world's biggest mobile brands have helped power SLA Mobile to third place in Ireland's high-tech company leader board. Th...
UK National News, Oct 16, 2009
Controversial Dutch MP In UK
Controversial right-wing Dutch MP Geert Wilders has arrived in the UK, after previously being refused entry. During a press conference outside the Abbey Gardens buildings, opposite the Houses of Parl...
Controversial Dutch MP In UK
Controversial right-wing Dutch MP Geert Wilders has arrived in the UK, after previously being refused entry. During a press conference outside the Abbey Gardens buildings, opposite the Houses of Parl...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 16, 2009
Murdered Soldiers 'Taunt Man' Bailed
A Co Antrim man who hurled abuse at grieving relatives of a soldier shot dead by dissident republicans has been granted bail. He is seeking to appeal a five months jail sentence which was imposed on ...
Murdered Soldiers 'Taunt Man' Bailed
A Co Antrim man who hurled abuse at grieving relatives of a soldier shot dead by dissident republicans has been granted bail. He is seeking to appeal a five months jail sentence which was imposed on ...
UK National News, Oct 16, 2009
Formal Learning 'Should Begin At Six'
Children should not begin taking formal school lessons until the age of six, a review of primary education in England has said. The Cambridge Primary Review said that children responded better to pla...
Formal Learning 'Should Begin At Six'
Children should not begin taking formal school lessons until the age of six, a review of primary education in England has said. The Cambridge Primary Review said that children responded better to pla...
Business News, Oct 16, 2009
Contractor Sought For Cultra Manor
Seven local firms have been invited to tender for a huge restoration project at one of Co Down's best known listed properties. NI Finance Minister, Sammy Wilson has revealed that each of the firms ha...
Contractor Sought For Cultra Manor
Seven local firms have been invited to tender for a huge restoration project at one of Co Down's best known listed properties. NI Finance Minister, Sammy Wilson has revealed that each of the firms ha...
Business News, Oct 16, 2009
Halifax Jobs To Go
The new owners of a major estate agency and building society are to sell part of the business. Almost 500 jobs are now under threat after Lloyds Banking Group confirmed it is to sell the Halifax esta...
Halifax Jobs To Go
The new owners of a major estate agency and building society are to sell part of the business. Almost 500 jobs are now under threat after Lloyds Banking Group confirmed it is to sell the Halifax esta...
Business News, Oct 16, 2009
Norfolkline Investment Sails In
A prestigious financial servcies centre is to be located in Belfast. NI Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster has announced Invest Northern Ireland's support for Norfolkline's new European Finance Servic...
Norfolkline Investment Sails In
A prestigious financial servcies centre is to be located in Belfast. NI Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster has announced Invest Northern Ireland's support for Norfolkline's new European Finance Servic...
Business News, Oct 16, 2009
US-Irish Research Partnership Announced
Four tripartite US-Ireland research and development (R&D) partnerships valued at €7m were announced this week. The news was revealed at an event hosted by the US Ambassador to Ireland in Dublin which...
US-Irish Research Partnership Announced
Four tripartite US-Ireland research and development (R&D) partnerships valued at €7m were announced this week. The news was revealed at an event hosted by the US Ambassador to Ireland in Dublin which...
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