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Northern Ireland News for February 2010 : Page 7
UK National News, Feb 16, 2010
Inflation Rises To 3.5%
UK inflations rates grew by more than half a percent last month - the most substantial jump in over a year. In December inflation stood at 2.9%. The rise to 3.5% in January has been attributed to t...
Inflation Rises To 3.5%
UK inflations rates grew by more than half a percent last month - the most substantial jump in over a year. In December inflation stood at 2.9%. The rise to 3.5% in January has been attributed to t...
UK National News, Feb 16, 2010
Probe Follows Suspicious Death Of Girl, 3
Police have launched a murder inquiry after a three-year-old girl was found dead at a house in Birmingham. A women in her 20s is being held by detectives investigating the death. She is still being q...
Probe Follows Suspicious Death Of Girl, 3
Police have launched a murder inquiry after a three-year-old girl was found dead at a house in Birmingham. A women in her 20s is being held by detectives investigating the death. She is still being q...
UK National News, Feb 16, 2010
Barclays' Profits Jump
Profits at Barclays bank have soared by 92%, the financial services giant revealed today. Full year profits for 2009 tipped £11.6bn ($18.2bn), a figure bolstered by the sale of the bank's BGI fund m...
Barclays' Profits Jump
Profits at Barclays bank have soared by 92%, the financial services giant revealed today. Full year profits for 2009 tipped £11.6bn ($18.2bn), a figure bolstered by the sale of the bank's BGI fund m...
Recruitment News, Feb 16, 2010
Union Ballot For Action Over Halifax Jobs
Trade union Unite has said it will be balloting its members at Bank of Scotland Ireland (BoSI) seeking a mandate for industrial action over the loss of hundreds of jobs. Last week BoSI announced plan...
Union Ballot For Action Over Halifax Jobs
Trade union Unite has said it will be balloting its members at Bank of Scotland Ireland (BoSI) seeking a mandate for industrial action over the loss of hundreds of jobs. Last week BoSI announced plan...
Northern Ireland News, Feb 16, 2010
Pair Held In Officer's Murder Probe
Two men in their 20s and 30s, are being questioned at Antrim police station after being arrested in connection with the murder of a police officer in Craigavon, Co Armagh last year. Constable Stephen...
Pair Held In Officer's Murder Probe
Two men in their 20s and 30s, are being questioned at Antrim police station after being arrested in connection with the murder of a police officer in Craigavon, Co Armagh last year. Constable Stephen...
Northern Ireland News, Feb 16, 2010
Views Sought On Justice Deal
Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness have called on the people of Northern Ireland to examine the Hillsborough Castle Agreement, and express their views on the accord. The First and Deputy First Min...
Views Sought On Justice Deal
Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness have called on the people of Northern Ireland to examine the Hillsborough Castle Agreement, and express their views on the accord. The First and Deputy First Min...
Northern Ireland News, Feb 16, 2010
Stormont Executive Is 'Building For Future'
Construction work on the new South West Hospital in Enniskillen and new Health and Wellbeing Centres that are underway in west Belfast were yesterday highlighted as two examples of success by the NI E...
Stormont Executive Is 'Building For Future'
Construction work on the new South West Hospital in Enniskillen and new Health and Wellbeing Centres that are underway in west Belfast were yesterday highlighted as two examples of success by the NI E...
UK National News, Feb 16, 2010
Legal Concerns Over Body Scanners
Full-body security scanners at major British airports could break the law, Equality and Human Rights Commission has warned. Calling for immediate action on policy, the Commission wrote to Transport S...
Legal Concerns Over Body Scanners
Full-body security scanners at major British airports could break the law, Equality and Human Rights Commission has warned. Calling for immediate action on policy, the Commission wrote to Transport S...
Business News, Feb 16, 2010
CyberSource Has Designs On Belfast
A US based high-tech business, CyberSource, is to invest almost £2.8million, in research and development (R&D) at its Belfast centre. Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster said today that CyberSource's ...
CyberSource Has Designs On Belfast
A US based high-tech business, CyberSource, is to invest almost £2.8million, in research and development (R&D) at its Belfast centre. Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster said today that CyberSource's ...
Northern Ireland News, Feb 16, 2010
TD Slams Vatican Representative
A Fine Gael TD has slammed the Papal Nuncio for his failure to cooperate with the Murphy reports and for his refusal to answer questions at a joint Oireachtas committee. The Fine Gael spokesperson on...
TD Slams Vatican Representative
A Fine Gael TD has slammed the Papal Nuncio for his failure to cooperate with the Murphy reports and for his refusal to answer questions at a joint Oireachtas committee. The Fine Gael spokesperson on...
Northern Ireland News, Feb 16, 2010
Dublin Shooting Victim Dies
A 21-year-old man has been died after being shot in Dublin during the early hours of this morning, Gardaí have revealed. Officers in Blanchardstown are investigating the circumstances surrounding the...
Dublin Shooting Victim Dies
A 21-year-old man has been died after being shot in Dublin during the early hours of this morning, Gardaí have revealed. Officers in Blanchardstown are investigating the circumstances surrounding the...
Northern Ireland News, Feb 16, 2010
CyberSource Has Designs On Belfast
A US based high-tech business, CyberSource, is to invest almost £2.8million, in research and development (R&D) at its Belfast centre. Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster said today that CyberSource's ...
CyberSource Has Designs On Belfast
A US based high-tech business, CyberSource, is to invest almost £2.8million, in research and development (R&D) at its Belfast centre. Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster said today that CyberSource's ...
Northern Ireland News, Feb 16, 2010
Gildernew Defends Farm Modernisation
Proposed farm modernisation across Northern Ireland has been in for criticism, putting Stormont Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development, Michelle Gildernew on the defensive. Her proposals for ...
Gildernew Defends Farm Modernisation
Proposed farm modernisation across Northern Ireland has been in for criticism, putting Stormont Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development, Michelle Gildernew on the defensive. Her proposals for ...
UK National News, Feb 16, 2010
Man Jailed For 1996 Rapes
A man who fled to Ireland in a bid to escape justice has been jailed for committing two rapes. Dawid Wysocki, also known as Andrzej Wysocki or Arthur Bryewicz, 30, of Copenhagen St, N1 was sentenced ...
Man Jailed For 1996 Rapes
A man who fled to Ireland in a bid to escape justice has been jailed for committing two rapes. Dawid Wysocki, also known as Andrzej Wysocki or Arthur Bryewicz, 30, of Copenhagen St, N1 was sentenced ...
UK National News, Feb 16, 2010
Immigration Tribunals 'Streamlined'
UK immigration appeals have been streamlined as part of a new two-tier tribunals service structure. The former Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (AIT) is the latest to benefit from the process of bring...
Immigration Tribunals 'Streamlined'
UK immigration appeals have been streamlined as part of a new two-tier tribunals service structure. The former Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (AIT) is the latest to benefit from the process of bring...
UK National News, Feb 16, 2010
Cash Robbery Plotters Jailed
Four men who spent weeks plotting to steal from cash delivery vans have been jailed. The men, from north Manchester, were being watched by police as they spent hours scrutinising cash deliveries at s...
Cash Robbery Plotters Jailed
Four men who spent weeks plotting to steal from cash delivery vans have been jailed. The men, from north Manchester, were being watched by police as they spent hours scrutinising cash deliveries at s...
UK National News, Feb 16, 2010
Other UK News In Brief
Lover's Death 'On Air' A TV presenter's on-air confession that he killed his ailing same-sex lover is to be investigated by Nottinghamshire Police. Ray Gosling, 70, told the BBC's Inside Out programm...
Other UK News In Brief
Lover's Death 'On Air' A TV presenter's on-air confession that he killed his ailing same-sex lover is to be investigated by Nottinghamshire Police. Ray Gosling, 70, told the BBC's Inside Out programm...
Northern Ireland News, Feb 16, 2010
Berry Street To Ripen?
Shoppers and businesses in Belfast city centre may soon see benefits as a famous old street that once led from west Belfast into the city centre looks likely to be reopened. A group called the Forum ...
Berry Street To Ripen?
Shoppers and businesses in Belfast city centre may soon see benefits as a famous old street that once led from west Belfast into the city centre looks likely to be reopened. A group called the Forum ...
Northern Ireland News, Feb 16, 2010
Belfast Retailers Offered Masterclasses
Belfast City Council is launching the next round of a popular business development programme 'Retail Therapy'. Open to all independent retailers across the city, it offers support and assistance on p...
Belfast Retailers Offered Masterclasses
Belfast City Council is launching the next round of a popular business development programme 'Retail Therapy'. Open to all independent retailers across the city, it offers support and assistance on p...
Northern Ireland News, Feb 16, 2010
Other NI News In Brief
SF Pick Candidate The West Belfast Sinn Féin candidate selection convention for the upcoming Westminster election will take place this evening, in the Roddy McCorley Club on the Glen Road. The select...
Other NI News In Brief
SF Pick Candidate The West Belfast Sinn Féin candidate selection convention for the upcoming Westminster election will take place this evening, in the Roddy McCorley Club on the Glen Road. The select...
UK National News, Feb 15, 2010
Lib Dem 'Undecided' On Coalition
The Liberal Democrats have expressed ambivalence towards their role in a possible hung parliament. However, leader Nick Clegg has reportedly ruled out of entering a coalition government if the next ...
Lib Dem 'Undecided' On Coalition
The Liberal Democrats have expressed ambivalence towards their role in a possible hung parliament. However, leader Nick Clegg has reportedly ruled out of entering a coalition government if the next ...
Recruitment News, Feb 15, 2010
Cork Suffers Construction Job Losses
Around 9,000 jobs have been lost in the construction industry in Cork over the last 12 months, new figures have revealed. The report, by the Construction Industry Federation (CIF), estimates that the...
Cork Suffers Construction Job Losses
Around 9,000 jobs have been lost in the construction industry in Cork over the last 12 months, new figures have revealed. The report, by the Construction Industry Federation (CIF), estimates that the...
Business News, Feb 15, 2010
Planners Provoke Forecourt War
It's to be petrol nozzles at dawn as independent retailers battle Tesco in 'forecourt wars'. The redevelopment of Northcott Shopping Centre in Newtownabbey - by Blanca Developments was given the go-a...
Planners Provoke Forecourt War
It's to be petrol nozzles at dawn as independent retailers battle Tesco in 'forecourt wars'. The redevelopment of Northcott Shopping Centre in Newtownabbey - by Blanca Developments was given the go-a...
Northern Ireland News, Feb 15, 2010
£2m Weekend Drug Haul
Drugs seized during a intelligence-led operation against an organised crime gang in Northern Ireland and England at the weekend have been valued at more than £2m. Substances suspected to be cocaine, ...
£2m Weekend Drug Haul
Drugs seized during a intelligence-led operation against an organised crime gang in Northern Ireland and England at the weekend have been valued at more than £2m. Substances suspected to be cocaine, ...
UK National News, Feb 15, 2010
Preston Focus In Weekend Drug Haul
Drugs seized during a intelligence-led operation against an organised crime gang in Northern Ireland and England at the weekend have been valued at more than £2m. Substances suspected to be cocaine, ...
Preston Focus In Weekend Drug Haul
Drugs seized during a intelligence-led operation against an organised crime gang in Northern Ireland and England at the weekend have been valued at more than £2m. Substances suspected to be cocaine, ...
Northern Ireland News, Feb 15, 2010
Mid-Ulster Rates Increase Tops NI
There have been significant rises in rates for homeowners of more than 7% in Belfast, Ballymoney and Limavady council areas. However, Magherafelt Council has announced the biggest percentage increase...
Mid-Ulster Rates Increase Tops NI
There have been significant rises in rates for homeowners of more than 7% in Belfast, Ballymoney and Limavady council areas. However, Magherafelt Council has announced the biggest percentage increase...
UK National News, Feb 15, 2010
BNP Will Admit Black Members
The British National Party has over-turned its "whites-only" membership policy following a threat from human rights authorities. Members of the far right political party met in Essex yesterday and vo...
BNP Will Admit Black Members
The British National Party has over-turned its "whites-only" membership policy following a threat from human rights authorities. Members of the far right political party met in Essex yesterday and vo...
Northern Ireland News, Feb 15, 2010
Bishops Meet Pope Over Abuse Scandal
A two-day meeting between Irish bishops and the Pope Benedict XVI has begun in the Vatican over the shocking revelations on clerical child abuse in Ireland. The talks, which are believed to unprecede...
Bishops Meet Pope Over Abuse Scandal
A two-day meeting between Irish bishops and the Pope Benedict XVI has begun in the Vatican over the shocking revelations on clerical child abuse in Ireland. The talks, which are believed to unprecede...
Northern Ireland News, Feb 15, 2010
Ruane Faces Construction Challenge
The amount of money being spent on new school building projects is in focus this week as a call to review the criteria for capital programmes is made. North Antrim DUP MLA Mervyn Storey has called on...
Ruane Faces Construction Challenge
The amount of money being spent on new school building projects is in focus this week as a call to review the criteria for capital programmes is made. North Antrim DUP MLA Mervyn Storey has called on...
Northern Ireland News, Feb 15, 2010
Portrush Marina Funding At Low Ebb
There are problems with cash from a €7m EU-funded organisation which promotes marine leisure across Scottish and Irish waters that has been earmarked for the rejuvination of a once thriving seaside re...
Portrush Marina Funding At Low Ebb
There are problems with cash from a €7m EU-funded organisation which promotes marine leisure across Scottish and Irish waters that has been earmarked for the rejuvination of a once thriving seaside re...
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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.
