Northern Ireland News for February 2015 : Page 4

Recruitment News, Feb 20, 2015
12 New Jobs Announced For SlurryKat
Enterprise, Trade and Investment Minister Arlene Foster has announced expansion plans and the creation of 12 new jobs by SlurryKat in Waringstown. Slurry Kat which designs, manufacturers and exports ...
Business News, Feb 20, 2015
SlurryKat Announces Expansion Plans And New Jobs
Enterprise, Trade and Investment Minister Arlene Foster has announced expansion plans and the creation of 12 new jobs by SlurryKat in Waringstown. Slurry Kat which designs, manufacturers and exports ...
UK National News, Feb 20, 2015
Schoolgirls Urged Not To Enter Syria
Police have issued an appeal urging three schoolgirls not to enter Syria. It is understood 15-year-old Shamima Begum, 16-year-old Kadiza Sultana and an unnamed 15-year-old left London Gatwick on a fl...
Northern Ireland News, Feb 20, 2015
Ryanair To Cut Derry To Portugal Flights
Ryanair is reportedly planning cuts to one of its routes at the City of Derry Airport. According to a report by the BBC, the airline will reduce the number of flights from Derry to Faro in Portugal....
UK National News, Feb 20, 2015
Student Donates £42,000 To Homeless Charity
A 22-year-old student has raised more than £40,000 for a homeless charity after a homeless man offered her money for a taxi home. Dominique Harrison-Bentzen was trying to make her way home following ...
UK National News, Feb 20, 2015
Car Showroom Destroyed In Fire
A car showroom in Somerset has been badly damaged in a fire. Fire crews were called to the two-storey building on Bridgewater Road in Lympsham at about 21:40 on Thursday night. At its highest 11 fir...
UK National News, Feb 20, 2015
Council Votes To Outsource All Services
Northamptonshire County Council has voted to accept plans to outsource all services and move the majority of its staff to new bodies. The council is seeking to save £68 million by outsourcing all ser...
Northern Ireland News, Feb 20, 2015
Lorry Overturns In Co Tyrone
A lorry has crashed and overturned in Co Tyrone. It is understood the cement lorry crashed into a graveyard at St Mark's church. Police have said the Crossowen Road, between Augher and Clogher, is...
Northern Ireland News, Feb 20, 2015
Two Security Alerts In L'Derry's Waterside
Army bomb officers carried out two separate security alerts in L'Derry on Thursday. Two pipe bombs were discovered by police in the Waterside area – on Trafalgar Court and Jeffrey Avenue. A number o...
Northern Ireland News, Feb 20, 2015
NI Secretary Announces New Talks On North Belfast Parade Issue
Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers has called on the business community, civic society and political leaders to "find a way forward" on the north Belfast parading dispute. There have been da...
UK National News, Feb 20, 2015
Music Teacher Jailed For Rape Of Pupils
A 64-year-old music teacher has been sentenced to 11 years in jail for the rape and indecent assault of two schoolgirls and a young woman in the 1970s and 1980s. Philip Pickett, an internationally re...
UK National News, Feb 20, 2015
Flood Warnings Issued Amid 'Supertides' Fears
A number of flood warnings have been issued amid fears of a rare "supertides" phenomenon in Pembrokeshire. A number of roads will be closed on Saturday morning as spring tides reach the peak of an 18...
UK National News, Feb 20, 2015
24-Hour Weekend Train Service Introduced In London
All-night rail services are to be offered at weekends on Tube services, the London Overground and Docklands Light Railway. A 24-hour service is to operating on London Underground's Piccadilly, Victor...
UK National News, Feb 20, 2015
Other News In Brief
Council Includes Banksy In listed Status Of Building Cheltenham Borough Council has granted retrospective planning permission to a Bansky mural. 'Spy Booth', which features three figures "s...
Northern Ireland News, Feb 20, 2015
Escaped Prisoner Robbed Pharmacy Before Recapture
An escaped prisoner caught by the PSNI at a city centre bar robbed a pharmacy at knifepoint shortly before being recaptured. 53-year-old Derek Brockwell, escaped from Tallaght Hospital, after stabbin...
Northern Ireland News, Feb 20, 2015
SlurryKat Announces Job Expansion
Twelve new jobs are to be created by Waringstown-based company, SlurryKat. The firm, which designs, manufactures and exports agri-equipment for the management of farm slurry, has said it will recrui...
Northern Ireland News, Feb 20, 2015
Belfast Street Named For Eminent Scientist
A street in Belfast's Titanic Quarter has been named in honour of one of Northern Ireland's most eminent scientist, John Stewart Bell. Bell's Theorem Crescent honours the Belfast scientist who proved...
Northern Ireland News, Feb 20, 2015
Other News In Brief
Stranmillis Road Improvements To Begin A road improvement project worth £120,000 is set to begin in the Stranmillis area of Belfast. The work will be carried out on a section of the Sharman ...
Northern Ireland News, Feb 19, 2015
Appeal Over Randalstown Attempted Armed Robbery
Police have appealed for information following an attempted armed robbery at a shop in Randalstown, Co Antrim. A masked and armed man entered a shop on Main Street at about 21:30 on Wednesday evening...
UK National News, Feb 19, 2015
Teenager Guilty Of Plot To Behead Soldier
A 19-year-old man has been found guilty of planning to behead a British soldier, the BBC has reported. Brusthom Ziamani was carrying a 12 inch knife, a hammer and an Islamic flag at the time of his a...
Northern Ireland News, Feb 19, 2015
350 Jobs Announced At Ulster Bank
350 new jobs have been announced at the Ulster Bank Direct Customer Contact Centre in Danesfort in south Belfast. The news follows an announcement that RBS and Ulster Bank will invest £300,000 in add...
UK National News, Feb 19, 2015
Police Seek Woman In Connection With Six-Day-Old Baby's Death
Police are appealing for help in tracing a woman they want to speak to in connection with the death of a six-week-old baby. The Metropolitan Police have released a CCTV image of a woman at Tooting Br...
UK National News, Feb 19, 2015
Cyclist Killed In Central London
Police are investigating the circumstances of the death of cyclist in central London. It is understood the female cyclist died after her Barclays Cycle Hire bike collided with a tipper truck. The ac...
UK National News, Feb 19, 2015
BT Order Removal Of Phone Box 'Library'
Telecoms company BT have ordered the removal of books from a "phone box library" in South Bar, Banbury in Oxfordshire. A note affixed to the working phone box from BT, states they are "concerned the ...
UK National News, Feb 19, 2015
Driver And Passengers Escape Bus Fire
A bus driver and two passengers have escaped uninjured after the First Bluebird bus caught fire. The bus was at Stirling University Innovation Park when the fire broke out. It is understood that two...
UK National News, Feb 19, 2015
Man Arrested For 2002 Murder Of Becky Godden
Police investigating the disappearance of Becky Godden on December 2002, have arrested a 51-year-old man on suspicion of murder. Ms Godden was aged 20 when she disappeared in Swindon on 27 December. ...
Northern Ireland News, Feb 19, 2015
Fugitive Stabs Himself Before Arrest
A prisoner who was on the run from authorities stabbed himself when caught by PSNI officers in Belfast city centre last night. Derek Brockwell had escaped from from Tallaght Hospital in Dublin at abo...
Business News, Feb 19, 2015
Netwatch Ireland To Set Up New Recovery Hub In Newry
Carlow-based surveillance company Netwatch Ireland Ltd is setting up a remote monitoring and disaster recovery hub in Newry, which will create 15 new jobs. Netwatch is a global Risk Management Compan...
Northern Ireland News, Feb 19, 2015
Man Arrested Over Wedding Shooting
Police have arrested a 46-year-old man in Belfast over the murder of another man at a wedding in Newtownbutler, County Fermanagh, last week. 63-year-old Bernard McGinley, from Longford, sustained a g...
Northern Ireland News, Feb 19, 2015
'Suspicious Object' Sparks L'Derry Security Alert
Police have announced a security alert in L'Derry after a suspicious object was found in the front garden of a house in Trafalgar Court on Thursday morning. A cordon has been put in place at Limavady...