Northern Ireland News for November 2010 : Page 9

UK National News, Nov 16, 2010
Latest Afghanistan Casualty Named
The young Northern Ireland soldier who died on Remembrance Sunday in Afghanistan has been named. He was Ranger Aaron McCormick, 22, who came from the small village of Macosquin near Castlerock in Co ...
UK National News, Nov 16, 2010
Smoking During Pregnancy 'Linked To Offending'
New research, published online in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, suggests that mums who smoke heavily while pregnant run the risk of having kids who grow up to become repeat crimina...
UK National News, Nov 16, 2010
Baroness Newlove In 'Call To Action' For Community Safety
Inspirational community activists who help keep neighbourhoods safe are being called on to spread their good work by the Government's champion for active, safer communities, Baroness Newlove. Outlini...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 16, 2010
Young Sisters Found Dead In Cork
Gardaí are investigating after two children and their father - all from a Co Cork fishing village - died in separate incidents. The man, who was in his 40s, died when his car crashed into a tree and ...
UK National News, Nov 16, 2010
Other UK News In Brief
Obesity Epidemic Putting Strain On NI Health Service

 Doctors have welcomed the launch of the public consultation “A fitter future for all – an obesity prevention framework for Northern ...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 16, 2010
USA Training For Medics 'Exposed'
A newspaper exposé of costly foreign travel undertaken by senior managers in the NI Health Service has provoked a response by the Stormont Minister responsible. Commenting on the costs of overseas tr...
Business News, Nov 16, 2010
COMET Cross-Border Projects Target Prosperity
Belfast and district is set for a fillip with news that the COMET (Councils of the Metropolitan Area) annual plan has been launched. The document was unveiled in the City Hall and is to focus on a ra...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 16, 2010
NI Colleges Sign-up To US Co-operation
An international agreement between colleges in the USA and NI-based colleges will lead to better working relationships with the local institutions able to share expertise with their counterparts in th...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 16, 2010
Cowen Insists 'No Bailout Sought'
The Irish Premier, Brian Cowen has again insisted that Ireland is making no application to Europe for a bailout, stressing that Ireland is 'fully funded into the middle of next year'. The Taoiseach ...
Business News, Nov 16, 2010
NI Colleges Sign-up To US Co-operation
An international agreement between colleges in the USA and NI-based colleges will lead to better working relationships with the local institutions able to share expertise with their counterparts in th...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 16, 2010
Lyric Drama Lives On As Theatre Rebuilt
As work nears completion on the new Lyric Theatre in south Belfast, ongoing work by the Lyric Drama Studio is to open its second season with drama students presenting their production of Russian playw...
Business News, Nov 16, 2010
Ireland 'Under Pressure To Accept Bailout'
The Dáil Government is vehemently resisting intense pressure from Europe to accept a bailout package. It has emerged that the European Central bank is suggesting that the Irish State accepts a bailo...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 16, 2010
COMET Cross-Border Projects Target Prosperity
Belfast and district is set for a fillip with news that the COMET (Councils of the Metropolitan Area) annual plan has been launched. The document was unveiled in the City Hall and is to focus on a ra...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 16, 2010
Murphy Hails Craigavon Road Developments
Investment totalling £1.7million for structural road maintenance in the Craigavon borough this year has been warmly welcomed. The NI Regional Development Minister Conor Murphy - who has been taking p...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 16, 2010
Other NI News In Brief
Gas Death Tragedy 'Doubles' A second tragedy has been revealed with news that the widow of the Co Fermanagh man killed by carbon monoxide poisoning last week has also died. She was found critically i...
Recruitment News, Nov 16, 2010
Tesco To Checkout Hundreds Of Jobs
Over 300 jobs are to be created across a number of areas in the Irish Republic by grocery giant Tesco including Ballybeg, Oranmore and Swinford. A total of 110 jobs have been created at Galway's Ora...
Business News, Nov 16, 2010
Utility Reconnection Fees 'Could Be Halved'
The Commission for Energy Regulation has revealed discussions are taking place that may lead to the halving of gas and electricity reconnection fees. The number of disconnections has been on the rise...
UK National News, Nov 15, 2010
'Poor Deal' Struck For British Yacht Couple
After being held hostage by Somali pirates for 388 days, the Chandler's are preparing for their trip back to the UK. It is understood the British couple, from Tunbridge Wells in Kent, were released a...
UK National News, Nov 15, 2010
Cameron Denies UK Global Standing Demise
Later in his first foreign affairs speech, the Prime Minister will admit to the UK's loss in respect over its finances, but will deny a decline in its global standing. David Cameron will state that t...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 15, 2010
Shock As RIR Soldier Dies In Afghan Blast
Remembrance Sunday was marked across the UK yesterday, while in NI, it was particularly poignant following news that a local soldier from 1st Battalion The Royal Irish Regiment had died in an explosio...
UK National News, Nov 15, 2010
Mother Pleads Guilty To Son's Bleach Death
A court has heard how the mother of a 12-year-old autistic boy killed him by making him drink bleach. Satpal Kaur Singh, 44, denied murder and pleaded guilty to manslaughter at the Old Bailey in Lond...
UK National News, Nov 15, 2010
Shock As RIR Soldier Dies In Afghan Blast
Remembrance Sunday was marked across the UK yesterday, while in NI, it was particularly poignant following news that a soldier from 1st Battalion The Royal Irish Regiment (RIR) had died in an explosio...
Business News, Nov 15, 2010
NI Tourism Targets Incentive Market
Business 'incentive' visitors are to be targeted for expansion by NI's tourism sector. The Stormont Minister responsible for tourism, Arlene Foster, has highlighted Northern Ireland's appeal as a wor...
UK National News, Nov 15, 2010
McCanns Sign Book Deal
Madeleine McCann's parents have signed a book deal to detail efforts to find their missing daughter who vanished on a family holiday in Portugal in 2007. Kate and Gerry McCann will donate all proceed...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 15, 2010
Regret Over Foreign Prisoner's Suicide
The Stormont Justice Minister David Ford has expressed regret at the death by suicide of a foreign national prisoner (know as Prisoner 'B') in Maghaberry Prison in March 2009. He was speaking after t...
Business News, Nov 15, 2010
O'Keeffe 'Rules Out' Corporation Tax Change
Ireland's highly competitive 12.5% corporation tax rate will not change in next month's Budget, according to the Minister for Enterprise. Batt O'Keeffe is to make the announcement tonight to a group ...
Business News, Nov 15, 2010
European Energy Award Comes To Ireland
An Irish student has won the prestigious European Energy Savings Award. Karimah Gambo - a transition year student at St. Joseph's College, Lucan, Co Dublin - was presented with the accolade in early ...
Business News, Nov 15, 2010
NI Celebrates WorldSkills UK Awards
Four Northern Ireland students have been honoured at the recent WorldSkills UK 2010 awards ceremony held in London. The awards were to celebrate the gold medal winners of the WorldSkills UK national ...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 15, 2010
Gerry Adams To Stand In Co Louth
The President of Sinn Fein, Gerry Adams, is to step down from his role as a Westminster MP and Stormont MLA to stand for election in the Irish Republic. He said he hoped to contest the Louth constitu...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 15, 2010
Co Down Men Face Irish ATM Raid Charges
Two men from Northern Ireland have been charged with taking part in a ram-raid on a bank ATM in Co Kerry yesterday. The men have been before a special district court sitting in Killorglin, Co Kerry ...