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Northern Ireland News for March 2009 : Page 7
Northern Ireland News, Mar 20, 2009
Ministers Hold Cross-Border Agriculture Meeting
Ongoing moves towards closer co-operation on a range of all-island animal health and welfare issues are on the agenda today as Northern Ireland's Agriculture and Rural Development Minister, Michelle G...
Ministers Hold Cross-Border Agriculture Meeting
Ongoing moves towards closer co-operation on a range of all-island animal health and welfare issues are on the agenda today as Northern Ireland's Agriculture and Rural Development Minister, Michelle G...
UK National News, Mar 20, 2009
Appeal For Son Of Murder Victim To Come Forward
A murdered London woman's son has appealed for his brother to come forward to help with the investigation. Detectives have been trying to trace Wehinmi Metsagharun since 61-year-old Rose Jatto was fo...
Appeal For Son Of Murder Victim To Come Forward
A murdered London woman's son has appealed for his brother to come forward to help with the investigation. Detectives have been trying to trace Wehinmi Metsagharun since 61-year-old Rose Jatto was fo...
UK National News, Mar 20, 2009
Injectable Badger TB Vaccine Ready For Use
The first vaccine against bovine tuberculosis in badgers will be used in 'the field' in England next year, Environment Secretary Hilary Benn announced today. The vaccine will be used in six areas of ...
Injectable Badger TB Vaccine Ready For Use
The first vaccine against bovine tuberculosis in badgers will be used in 'the field' in England next year, Environment Secretary Hilary Benn announced today. The vaccine will be used in six areas of ...
Northern Ireland News, Mar 20, 2009
Moderator Visits Jail Inmates
Life behind bars was the order of service this week as the NI Presbyterian Moderator, the Reverend Donald Patton paid his first visit to Magilligan Prison. Reverend Patton was accompanied by his wife...
Moderator Visits Jail Inmates
Life behind bars was the order of service this week as the NI Presbyterian Moderator, the Reverend Donald Patton paid his first visit to Magilligan Prison. Reverend Patton was accompanied by his wife...
UK National News, Mar 20, 2009
Other News In Brief
Boy Critically Ill After Being Hit By Two Cars A nine-year-old boy is critically ill in hospital after being hit by two cars near Wrexham. North Wales Police said the first car did not stop following...
Other News In Brief
Boy Critically Ill After Being Hit By Two Cars A nine-year-old boy is critically ill in hospital after being hit by two cars near Wrexham. North Wales Police said the first car did not stop following...
Northern Ireland News, Mar 20, 2009
High Tech APT Sells Hardware Business To Audemat
APT, the Belfast-based manufacturer of the award-winning WorldCast and WorldNet codecs software - as used in the broadcast industry - has become part of a formidable amalgamation of Audemat companies....
High Tech APT Sells Hardware Business To Audemat
APT, the Belfast-based manufacturer of the award-winning WorldCast and WorldNet codecs software - as used in the broadcast industry - has become part of a formidable amalgamation of Audemat companies....
Northern Ireland News, Mar 20, 2009
Other NI News In Brief
Ministers Offer Sympathy To Ballymena Actor The two top Stormont Executive members have joined forces to offer their condolences to the family of Ballymena-born actor Liam Neeson, following the death...
Other NI News In Brief
Ministers Offer Sympathy To Ballymena Actor The two top Stormont Executive members have joined forces to offer their condolences to the family of Ballymena-born actor Liam Neeson, following the death...
UK National News, Mar 19, 2009
Actress Natasha Richardson Dies After Ski Fall
British actress Natasha Richardson has died in hospital after suffering a serious head injury in a skiing accident. The 45-year-old daughter of actress Vanessa Redgrave, fell during a lesson on a nur...
Actress Natasha Richardson Dies After Ski Fall
British actress Natasha Richardson has died in hospital after suffering a serious head injury in a skiing accident. The 45-year-old daughter of actress Vanessa Redgrave, fell during a lesson on a nur...
UK National News, Mar 19, 2009
Butcher Blamed For Fatal E.Coli Breakout
One butcher caused an outbreak of food poisoning that killed a boy in 2005, and left over 150 others ill, the chairman of a public inquiry said today. Bridgend butcher William Tudor was jailed after ...
Butcher Blamed For Fatal E.Coli Breakout
One butcher caused an outbreak of food poisoning that killed a boy in 2005, and left over 150 others ill, the chairman of a public inquiry said today. Bridgend butcher William Tudor was jailed after ...
Northern Ireland News, Mar 19, 2009
Neeson 'Devastated' Over Natasha's Ski Fall Death
Ballymena-born actor Liam Neeson is today reported to be devastated after the death of his wife. British actress Natasha Richardson (pictured with Liam) has passed away in hospital after suffering a ...
Neeson 'Devastated' Over Natasha's Ski Fall Death
Ballymena-born actor Liam Neeson is today reported to be devastated after the death of his wife. British actress Natasha Richardson (pictured with Liam) has passed away in hospital after suffering a ...
UK National News, Mar 19, 2009
Bodies Found In Lake 'Are Missing Mother And Daughter'
Post mortem examinations have revealed the two bodies recovered from a lake in the Cotswolds are those of a missing florist and her daughter, who died from drowning. A specialist team of police diver...
Bodies Found In Lake 'Are Missing Mother And Daughter'
Post mortem examinations have revealed the two bodies recovered from a lake in the Cotswolds are those of a missing florist and her daughter, who died from drowning. A specialist team of police diver...
UK National News, Mar 19, 2009
Livingstone To Mount Bid For Return To Mayor Post
Former London Lord Mayor Ken Livingstone is to mount a bid to return to his old post in 2012, he has confirmed. Mr Livingstone said he would run as an Independent nominee if Labour did not select him...
Livingstone To Mount Bid For Return To Mayor Post
Former London Lord Mayor Ken Livingstone is to mount a bid to return to his old post in 2012, he has confirmed. Mr Livingstone said he would run as an Independent nominee if Labour did not select him...
Northern Ireland News, Mar 19, 2009
Drugs Gang Behind Bangor Gun Attack
A violent drug gang are thought to be behind last night's attack on a house in Bangor, Co Down. It is alleged the same group has issued more than a dozen death threats to community workers in the are...
Drugs Gang Behind Bangor Gun Attack
A violent drug gang are thought to be behind last night's attack on a house in Bangor, Co Down. It is alleged the same group has issued more than a dozen death threats to community workers in the are...
Northern Ireland News, Mar 19, 2009
Conference Highlights Cross-Border Crime
Cross-border fraud and corruption are being targeted today in a high-level EC-funded event. Issues such as cigarette smuggling, fuel smuggling, oils, alcohol and cross-border VAT frauds are all in th...
Conference Highlights Cross-Border Crime
Cross-border fraud and corruption are being targeted today in a high-level EC-funded event. Issues such as cigarette smuggling, fuel smuggling, oils, alcohol and cross-border VAT frauds are all in th...
Northern Ireland News, Mar 19, 2009
Lisburn Maternity Care 'Reprieved'
Fears over the future of a Co Antrim maternity facility are receeding this week. The NI Health Minister, Michael McGimpsey, yesterday announced that maternity services will - after all - be retained ...
Lisburn Maternity Care 'Reprieved'
Fears over the future of a Co Antrim maternity facility are receeding this week. The NI Health Minister, Michael McGimpsey, yesterday announced that maternity services will - after all - be retained ...
UK National News, Mar 19, 2009
CC Orders BAA To Sell Two Airports
The Competition Commission (CC) has ordered BAA to sell both Gatwick and Stansted as well as either Edinburgh or Glasgow. In its final report on BAA's ownership of seven UK airports, the CC also sti...
CC Orders BAA To Sell Two Airports
The Competition Commission (CC) has ordered BAA to sell both Gatwick and Stansted as well as either Edinburgh or Glasgow. In its final report on BAA's ownership of seven UK airports, the CC also sti...
Northern Ireland News, Mar 19, 2009
Suspended Sentence For Cuckolded Knife Man
A Co Armagh man who stabbed his victim after walking in on him in bed with his ex-girlfriend has been spared jail by a Co Donegal judge. Despite the seriousness of such a stabbing, Judge Gerard Griff...
Suspended Sentence For Cuckolded Knife Man
A Co Armagh man who stabbed his victim after walking in on him in bed with his ex-girlfriend has been spared jail by a Co Donegal judge. Despite the seriousness of such a stabbing, Judge Gerard Griff...
UK National News, Mar 19, 2009
Number Of Households On Waiting Lists Projected To Reach All-Time High
More than 200,000 households are projected to join waiting lists for social housing by 2011, as the recession fuels demand - taking the overall number to a record high of around two million. New rese...
Number Of Households On Waiting Lists Projected To Reach All-Time High
More than 200,000 households are projected to join waiting lists for social housing by 2011, as the recession fuels demand - taking the overall number to a record high of around two million. New rese...
Northern Ireland News, Mar 19, 2009
Jobs Lost On Foot Of Recession
Over 60 jobs are to go in Co Tyrone as a local timber firm shuts down. Some 17 jobs in retailing have also been lost with the closure of the Belfast branch of a top footwear store. OSC, the Origina...
Jobs Lost On Foot Of Recession
Over 60 jobs are to go in Co Tyrone as a local timber firm shuts down. Some 17 jobs in retailing have also been lost with the closure of the Belfast branch of a top footwear store. OSC, the Origina...
Northern Ireland News, Mar 19, 2009
Heaney Accolade Is Second Irish Honour
The Co Londonderry poet and Nobel Laureate, Seamus Heaney has received a major national accolade, the David Cohen prize for literature. It was two in a row for Northern Ireland as the last winner was...
Heaney Accolade Is Second Irish Honour
The Co Londonderry poet and Nobel Laureate, Seamus Heaney has received a major national accolade, the David Cohen prize for literature. It was two in a row for Northern Ireland as the last winner was...
UK National News, Mar 19, 2009
William Reveals Childhood Ambition
A candid Prince William has told two young 'Newsround' reporters about his childhood ambition to be a policeman. The second-in-line to the throne also told the pair how he could beat his younger bro...
William Reveals Childhood Ambition
A candid Prince William has told two young 'Newsround' reporters about his childhood ambition to be a policeman. The second-in-line to the throne also told the pair how he could beat his younger bro...
Recruitment News, Mar 19, 2009
Jobs Lost On Foot Of Recession
Over 60 jobs are to go in Co Tyrone as a local timber firm shuts down. Some 17 jobs in retailing have also been lost with the closure of the Belfast branch of a top footwear store. OSC, the Origina...
Jobs Lost On Foot Of Recession
Over 60 jobs are to go in Co Tyrone as a local timber firm shuts down. Some 17 jobs in retailing have also been lost with the closure of the Belfast branch of a top footwear store. OSC, the Origina...
UK National News, Mar 19, 2009
Cash Boost For Organisations Run By People With Disabilities
More than £1 million will help disabled groups run their own organisations and help people to live full and independent lives, Care Services Minister, Phil Hope has today announced. Twenty-five "user...
Cash Boost For Organisations Run By People With Disabilities
More than £1 million will help disabled groups run their own organisations and help people to live full and independent lives, Care Services Minister, Phil Hope has today announced. Twenty-five "user...
Northern Ireland News, Mar 19, 2009
Court Was Torched, Says Fire Service
Last week's blaze which destroyed around half of the empty Crumlin Road Courthouse was deliberate. The Northern Ireland Fire Service said a fire at the Victorian, 150-year-old courthouse last week wa...
Court Was Torched, Says Fire Service
Last week's blaze which destroyed around half of the empty Crumlin Road Courthouse was deliberate. The Northern Ireland Fire Service said a fire at the Victorian, 150-year-old courthouse last week wa...
Northern Ireland News, Mar 19, 2009
Older Women To Get Breast Scans
Women up to the age of 70 will be invited for breast screening under new plans just announced by NI Health Minister Michael McGimpsey. Up to now only women aged between 50 and 64 have been routinely ...
Older Women To Get Breast Scans
Women up to the age of 70 will be invited for breast screening under new plans just announced by NI Health Minister Michael McGimpsey. Up to now only women aged between 50 and 64 have been routinely ...
UK National News, Mar 19, 2009
Striking A Deal: UK Purchases Supersonic Stealth Jets
On a visit to Washington, Defence Secretary John Hutton has announced the decision to purchase three Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) test aircraft - the UK's next generation of supersonic stealth fast jets...
Striking A Deal: UK Purchases Supersonic Stealth Jets
On a visit to Washington, Defence Secretary John Hutton has announced the decision to purchase three Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) test aircraft - the UK's next generation of supersonic stealth fast jets...
UK National News, Mar 19, 2009
Other News In Brief
Boy Dies After PE Lesson A 15-year-old boy has collapsed and died following a PE lesson in North East Lincolnshire. Sam Broderick, a Year 10 pupil at Healing School in Grimsby, was taken to hospital ...
Other News In Brief
Boy Dies After PE Lesson A 15-year-old boy has collapsed and died following a PE lesson in North East Lincolnshire. Sam Broderick, a Year 10 pupil at Healing School in Grimsby, was taken to hospital ...
Northern Ireland News, Mar 19, 2009
Public Urged To Contribute To Water Studies
Members of the public across Northern Ireland have been encouraged to play their part in the protection and improvement of Northern Ireland waterways. The Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) ...
Public Urged To Contribute To Water Studies
Members of the public across Northern Ireland have been encouraged to play their part in the protection and improvement of Northern Ireland waterways. The Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) ...
Recruitment News, Mar 19, 2009
Obama Promises Policies Will Not Affect Irish Jobs
The Taoiseach has said US President Barack Obama has assured him that job creation by American firms in Ireland will not suffer under his new policies. The assurances will assuage fears that the new...
Obama Promises Policies Will Not Affect Irish Jobs
The Taoiseach has said US President Barack Obama has assured him that job creation by American firms in Ireland will not suffer under his new policies. The assurances will assuage fears that the new...
Northern Ireland News, Mar 19, 2009
Other NI News In Brief
Funding Brief On North West's EC Cash Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún is in Co Londonderry today for a briefing on the £18.5 million available for the North West through the EC-backed Rural Development...
Other NI News In Brief
Funding Brief On North West's EC Cash Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún is in Co Londonderry today for a briefing on the £18.5 million available for the North West through the EC-backed Rural Development...
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Northern Ireland WeatherThis Evening and Tonight:A dry night, save for a few light showers around the coasts, with prolonged clear spells and light winds bringing a frosty dawn for many in central and southern parts. Minimum temperature -3 °C.
