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Northern Ireland News for October 2013 : Page 11
UK National News, Oct 10, 2013
Charles Taylor To Serve His Sentence In The UK
Former Liberian president Charles Taylor is to serve the rest of his prison sentence in the UK, according to Justice Minister Jeremy Wright. Taylor was found guilty of 11 counts of war crimes and cri...
Charles Taylor To Serve His Sentence In The UK
Former Liberian president Charles Taylor is to serve the rest of his prison sentence in the UK, according to Justice Minister Jeremy Wright. Taylor was found guilty of 11 counts of war crimes and cri...
UK National News, Oct 10, 2013
SSE To Increase Tariffs By 8.2%
SSE has said it is to increase its household energy tariffs from 15 November 2013. Customers of the energy firm will see an average rise of 8.2% in gas and electricity prices. The company has said...
SSE To Increase Tariffs By 8.2%
SSE has said it is to increase its household energy tariffs from 15 November 2013. Customers of the energy firm will see an average rise of 8.2% in gas and electricity prices. The company has said...
Business News, Oct 10, 2013
Council Launches 'An Introduction To Retail'
Anyone planning a career in retail should sign up to Belfast City Council's new programme. 'An Introduction to Retail' is open to residents of the city who want to open their own independent retail b...
Council Launches 'An Introduction To Retail'
Anyone planning a career in retail should sign up to Belfast City Council's new programme. 'An Introduction to Retail' is open to residents of the city who want to open their own independent retail b...
Recruitment News, Oct 10, 2013
260 New Jobs Announced For Omagh
Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster has announced a £21.7million investment by US multinational Terex Corporation that is expected to create around 260 new skilled jobs in Co Tyrone. The NYSE listed c...
260 New Jobs Announced For Omagh
Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster has announced a £21.7million investment by US multinational Terex Corporation that is expected to create around 260 new skilled jobs in Co Tyrone. The NYSE listed c...
UK National News, Oct 10, 2013
32,600 Compensation Claims Received Over Potholes
Britain's roads are peppered with almost 200,000 potholes, or one for every mile of road in Great Britain, according to official council data obtained via a freedom of information request by Britannia...
32,600 Compensation Claims Received Over Potholes
Britain's roads are peppered with almost 200,000 potholes, or one for every mile of road in Great Britain, according to official council data obtained via a freedom of information request by Britannia...
UK National News, Oct 10, 2013
Michael Pitt To Leave The Planning Inspectorate
Chief Executive, Sir Michael Pitt has announced that he is to leave the Planning Inspectorate at the end of March 2014. Sir Michael was appointed Chair of the Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC)...
Michael Pitt To Leave The Planning Inspectorate
Chief Executive, Sir Michael Pitt has announced that he is to leave the Planning Inspectorate at the end of March 2014. Sir Michael was appointed Chair of the Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC)...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 10, 2013
260 Jobs Created In Omagh
260 new jobs in Omagh are to be created following a £21.7m investment by US company Terex. The company manufactures mobile materials processing equipment at factories in Dungannon and Omagh. Enterpr...
260 Jobs Created In Omagh
260 new jobs in Omagh are to be created following a £21.7m investment by US company Terex. The company manufactures mobile materials processing equipment at factories in Dungannon and Omagh. Enterpr...
UK National News, Oct 10, 2013
Air Ambulance Comes Off Runway At Aberdeen Airport
Flights at Aberdeen International Airport have been suspended after a plane came off the runway after it had landed. A statement from the airport on Twitter says: "Flights suspended for around two ho...
Air Ambulance Comes Off Runway At Aberdeen Airport
Flights at Aberdeen International Airport have been suspended after a plane came off the runway after it had landed. A statement from the airport on Twitter says: "Flights suspended for around two ho...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 10, 2013
North Belfast Man Shot
A dissident republican group calling itself 'the IRA' is thought to be responsible for the shooting of a man whose body was found in a lake in a park in north Belfast. The story was revealed by the I...
North Belfast Man Shot
A dissident republican group calling itself 'the IRA' is thought to be responsible for the shooting of a man whose body was found in a lake in a park in north Belfast. The story was revealed by the I...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 10, 2013
Man Shot In L'Derry
A man has been shot dead at a flat in L'Derry City. Emergency crews were called to the scene in Shipquay Street at about 11:00 on Thursday morning. The circumstances surrounding the incident have no...
Man Shot In L'Derry
A man has been shot dead at a flat in L'Derry City. Emergency crews were called to the scene in Shipquay Street at about 11:00 on Thursday morning. The circumstances surrounding the incident have no...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 10, 2013
Ombudsman Launches Liam Adams Investigation
The police ombudsman has launched an investigation to examine how police dealt with the case of Liam Adams, who was convicted of sexually assaulting and raping his own daughter, Áine, in the 1970s. T...
Ombudsman Launches Liam Adams Investigation
The police ombudsman has launched an investigation to examine how police dealt with the case of Liam Adams, who was convicted of sexually assaulting and raping his own daughter, Áine, in the 1970s. T...
UK National News, Oct 10, 2013
Man Sentenced To 20 Years Over Denis Cowan Murder
A man has been jailed for 20 years for the murder of a man in October 2000. Dialo Hall, 33, of no fixed abode was jailed for life with a minimum term of 20 years for the murder of 27-year-old Denis C...
Man Sentenced To 20 Years Over Denis Cowan Murder
A man has been jailed for 20 years for the murder of a man in October 2000. Dialo Hall, 33, of no fixed abode was jailed for life with a minimum term of 20 years for the murder of 27-year-old Denis C...
UK National News, Oct 10, 2013
Funding For Farmers To Turn Waste Into Energy
Farmers will be able to obtain funding to set up small anaerobic digestion (AD) plants under a government-funded loan scheme that opens today. The technology turns waste into energy, reduces greenhou...
Funding For Farmers To Turn Waste Into Energy
Farmers will be able to obtain funding to set up small anaerobic digestion (AD) plants under a government-funded loan scheme that opens today. The technology turns waste into energy, reduces greenhou...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 10, 2013
15 Jobs Announced In New £20m Data Centre
15 jobs are expected to be created as a result of a new £20m data centre in Coleraine. Environment Minister Mark H Durkan has announced planning approval for the centre, which will see the developmen...
15 Jobs Announced In New £20m Data Centre
15 jobs are expected to be created as a result of a new £20m data centre in Coleraine. Environment Minister Mark H Durkan has announced planning approval for the centre, which will see the developmen...
UK National News, Oct 10, 2013
Other News In Brief
Funding Boost For Technologies Of The Future A package of investment in the eight great technologies of the future will accelerate high-tech progress from the lab to the marketplace and help ...
Other News In Brief
Funding Boost For Technologies Of The Future A package of investment in the eight great technologies of the future will accelerate high-tech progress from the lab to the marketplace and help ...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 10, 2013
£2m Housing Development Opened On Rathlin
A £2m social housing development has opened on Rathlin Island, off the Antrim Coast, making it the first to built there in almost two decades. The development of ten social housing units by Apex Hous...
£2m Housing Development Opened On Rathlin
A £2m social housing development has opened on Rathlin Island, off the Antrim Coast, making it the first to built there in almost two decades. The development of ten social housing units by Apex Hous...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 10, 2013
NIPSA To Hold DSD Protest
Northern Ireland's largest trade union NIPSA is to hold a protest outside the Department for Social Development headquarters this afternoon against the privatisation of Support Grades. The protest wi...
NIPSA To Hold DSD Protest
Northern Ireland's largest trade union NIPSA is to hold a protest outside the Department for Social Development headquarters this afternoon against the privatisation of Support Grades. The protest wi...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 10, 2013
Other News In Brief
Suspicious Obkect Found In East Belfast Army bomb experts have been called to investigate a suspicious object in Rosebery Gardens in east Belfast. The find follows an alert earlier today afte...
Other News In Brief
Suspicious Obkect Found In East Belfast Army bomb experts have been called to investigate a suspicious object in Rosebery Gardens in east Belfast. The find follows an alert earlier today afte...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 9, 2013
DOE Launches Seatbelt TV Campaign
A new DOE road safety advert to encourage more seatbelt wearing is to air tomorrow night on UTV. The move follows news that seven people were killed and thirty six were seriously injured last year as...
DOE Launches Seatbelt TV Campaign
A new DOE road safety advert to encourage more seatbelt wearing is to air tomorrow night on UTV. The move follows news that seven people were killed and thirty six were seriously injured last year as...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 9, 2013
40 Omagh Jobs Announced
Omagh-based engineering firm Telestack Ltd is undertaking a £3.1m expansion that will see the company create 40 jobs. Telestack specialises in the design, manufacture and installation of a range of m...
40 Omagh Jobs Announced
Omagh-based engineering firm Telestack Ltd is undertaking a £3.1m expansion that will see the company create 40 jobs. Telestack specialises in the design, manufacture and installation of a range of m...
UK National News, Oct 9, 2013
Police To Release 'E-Fit' Image Of Possible Suspect In Madeline McCann Case
An 'e-fit' image of a possible suspect connected to the disappearance of Madeline McCann is to be released by police, according to Sky News. It is to be issued ahead of an appeal on Crimewatch which ...
Police To Release 'E-Fit' Image Of Possible Suspect In Madeline McCann Case
An 'e-fit' image of a possible suspect connected to the disappearance of Madeline McCann is to be released by police, according to Sky News. It is to be issued ahead of an appeal on Crimewatch which ...
UK National News, Oct 9, 2013
E-Borders Programme Doesn't Deliver Benefits To Immigration Control
The government's e-Borders information programme still has some way to go to deliver many of the original benefits to immigration control that were anticipated. These were the findings of the Chief ...
E-Borders Programme Doesn't Deliver Benefits To Immigration Control
The government's e-Borders information programme still has some way to go to deliver many of the original benefits to immigration control that were anticipated. These were the findings of the Chief ...
UK National News, Oct 9, 2013
Pilot Who Fell Ill Dies after Passenger Safely Lands Plane
A passenger has been forced to make an emergency landing at Humberside Airport after the plane's pilot became ill. Police have confirmed the pilot later died, however they were unable to confirm the ...
Pilot Who Fell Ill Dies after Passenger Safely Lands Plane
A passenger has been forced to make an emergency landing at Humberside Airport after the plane's pilot became ill. Police have confirmed the pilot later died, however they were unable to confirm the ...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 9, 2013
NI Adult Literacy Improves Over Decade
Adult literacy levels in Northern Ireland have improved over the past decade, according to results released in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) International Survey o...
NI Adult Literacy Improves Over Decade
Adult literacy levels in Northern Ireland have improved over the past decade, according to results released in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) International Survey o...
Business News, Oct 9, 2013
Alliance Against Royal Mail Privatisation
Alliance East Belfast MLA Chris Lyttle, who is chair of the Assembly Group on Postal Issues, has stated the Alliance Party's concerns over the Westminster Government's plans to privatise the Royal Mai...
Alliance Against Royal Mail Privatisation
Alliance East Belfast MLA Chris Lyttle, who is chair of the Assembly Group on Postal Issues, has stated the Alliance Party's concerns over the Westminster Government's plans to privatise the Royal Mai...
Recruitment News, Oct 9, 2013
Etain Creates 34 New Posts
Belfast-based software company Etain is creating 34 new high quality jobs as part of a £2.3 million investment supported by Invest Northern Ireland. Established in 1999, Etain is a locally owned busi...
Etain Creates 34 New Posts
Belfast-based software company Etain is creating 34 new high quality jobs as part of a £2.3 million investment supported by Invest Northern Ireland. Established in 1999, Etain is a locally owned busi...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 9, 2013
McCausland Hails 'Help To Buy' Scheme
Housing Minister Nelson McCausland has said the early launch of a Help to Buy Mortgage Guarantee Scheme across the UK could help more people in Northern Ireland get onto the property ladder. The gove...
McCausland Hails 'Help To Buy' Scheme
Housing Minister Nelson McCausland has said the early launch of a Help to Buy Mortgage Guarantee Scheme across the UK could help more people in Northern Ireland get onto the property ladder. The gove...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 9, 2013
Leading Cancer Scientist Appointed Queen's President
A world-renowned cancer scientist has been appointed as the new President and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University, Belfast. Professor Patrick Johnston, who is Dean of the School of Medicine, Dentis...
Leading Cancer Scientist Appointed Queen's President
A world-renowned cancer scientist has been appointed as the new President and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University, Belfast. Professor Patrick Johnston, who is Dean of the School of Medicine, Dentis...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 9, 2013
Further Ramorum Disease Identified In Larch Trees
An increase in the number of new cases of Ramorum disease amongst larch trees has been recorded, leading to fears it could eventually become impossible to eradicate. Infection by the disease known as...
Further Ramorum Disease Identified In Larch Trees
An increase in the number of new cases of Ramorum disease amongst larch trees has been recorded, leading to fears it could eventually become impossible to eradicate. Infection by the disease known as...
Northern Ireland News, Oct 9, 2013
ICT Training Launched For Rural Communities
Agriculture Minister Michelle O’Neill has launched an initiative designed to give people living in rural areas greater access to online training. BT has paired with the Minister and her department to...
ICT Training Launched For Rural Communities
Agriculture Minister Michelle O’Neill has launched an initiative designed to give people living in rural areas greater access to online training. BT has paired with the Minister and her department to...
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Northern Ireland WeatherToday:A very mild, but mostly cloudy day, although with some bright or sunny spells. It will be mostly dry in the morning, but a little patchy light rain or drizzle at times in the afternoon. Maximum temperature 14 °C.Tonight:A band of heavier rain will move east during the evening before clearing eastwards after midnight. then mostly dry through the early hours, but a little rain towards dawn. Minimum temperature 8 °C.
