Northern Ireland News for January 2011 : Page 16

UK National News, Jan 4, 2011
'Tea Break' Ambulance Worker Keeps Job
An Ambulance Technician who took his tea break rather than responding to a heart attack victim has been informed he can keep his job. The technician was 800 yards away when Mandy Mathieson, 33, had ...
Northern Ireland News, Jan 4, 2011
UTV In Your Hands
Northern Ireland broadcaster UTV has launched into the mobile app market, with a free UTV Live mobile app available for download on both iTunes and Android market. The app has been developed in conju...
UK National News, Jan 4, 2011
New Antisocial Behaviour Trials Launched
Trials of a new approach for handling complaints of antisocial behaviour (ASB) were unveiled today by Crime Prevention Minister James Brokenshire. Eight police force areas will change the way they re...
Northern Ireland News, Jan 4, 2011
Fine Gael Opens Online Election Campaign
Opposition party Fine Gael have wasted no time in the New Year, shutting down their usual website to make way for a special election forum in the run up to this year's election in the Irish Republic. ...
UK National News, Jan 4, 2011
NHS To Be Tested To The Limit In 2011
The NHS faces a “defining year” ahead as unprecedented financial pressures and an unnecessarily ambitious programme of reform in England taking affect, the British Medical Association (BMA) warned. A...
Northern Ireland News, Jan 4, 2011
Other NI News In Brief
Woman Dragged From Car There has been another case of a woman driver being forced out of a car during a hijacking. This time it was in Belfast city centre on Monday evening and took place in the Vent...
UK National News, Jan 4, 2011
Investment To Speed Hospital Discharges
Following a successful efficiency drive, the Department of Health is able to make an extra £162 million available to local health and care services to spend this financial year on front line services,...
UK National News, Jan 4, 2011
Cost-Cutting Patent Arrangements Welcomed
Intellectual Property Minister Baroness Wilcox has welcomed new arrangements for filing patents in Europe which will cut costs for UK businesses. Applicants can now supply the European Patent Office ...
UK National News, Jan 4, 2011
Other UK News In Brief
More Freedom To Buy And Sell Bread And Wine Regulations banning the sale of different unwrapped bread sizes and small measures of wine are set to be scrapped, Science Minister David Willetts confirm...