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19/03/2010
Other NI News In Brief
Sainsbury's 'Good Sports'
Sainsbury's boss Justin King has begun a 32-mile run across the UK this week to help raise money towards the £3m which the national retailer has pledged to raise for Sport Relief. Over the next four days Chief Executive Officer Justin King will run the 32 miles in total - one mile in 32 different locations across the UK. Justin began his first mile in Holywood, near Belfast and completes his final run on Saturday 20th March in Barnet. He was seen off in the Holywood store by local MLAs Conal McDevitt and Billy Armstrong, (pictured).
Aged PMS Savers Relief
Presbyterian Mutual Society members who were in danger of passing away before receiving their investments if it stayed in administration for a mooted five more years have had a reprieve. A proposed five-year extension to running the collapsed Society in administration has been cut to 12 months. Lawyers for administrator Arthur Boyd told the High Court he was anxious to avoid needless expenses or delays. They amended his plans amid concerns that some elderly people may not live long enough to enjoy their investments if a long-term extension was granted. Nearly 10,000 Presbyterians across Northern Ireland lost access to their savings when it went into administration just over a year ago following a run on its funds. The High Court has already ruled that shareholders with less than £20,000 in the PMS cannot receive interim payments from a £20 million pot of assets realised.
Biker Robbers Flee
A stolen motorcycle was abandoned by bank robbers yesterday as they attempted to make off with a sum of cash stolen from a bank when their getaway vehicle failed to start. Police said that two men wearing black motorcycle helmets, one of them armed with a handgun, entered the premises at a shopping complex on the Saintfield Road, Knockbreda, shortly after 11am on Thursday. Staff were threatened and forced to place a sum of cash in a dark-coloured backpack, before the men tried to make their escape, but the red, white, blue and yellow motorcycle failed to start and the men fled on foot.
Holylands Needs Long Term Fix
Planning regulations on student houses must be tightened to provide a long-term solution to anti-social behaviour in the Holy Land area of Belfast. Eight people were arrested in the area, but disturbances did not reach the scale of last year's riots and, speaking after a relatively quiet Saint Patrick's Day, the University of Ulster vice Chancellor Professor Richard Barnett commended the agencies who worked together on Wednesday to minimise disorder during the St Patrick's Day festivities, but stressed the response involving intensive patrolling by police, council and university officials and mobile CCTV cameras was only a "sticking plaster" on a long-standing problem that had yet to be tackled.
Killer Soldier Freed
An Irish soldier who shot dead three colleagues in the Middle East has been formally released from prison in Co Antrim. Michael McAleavy served more than 27 years for killing the three Irish Army comrades while on peacekeeping duties in the Lebanon in 1982. The west Belfast man had been living part-time in the community in recent months as part of pre-release scheme from Maghaberry jail in Co Antrim. It is understood his sentence was formally served on Monday. His release was directed by the Independent Parole Commission.
(BMcC/GK)
Sainsbury's boss Justin King has begun a 32-mile run across the UK this week to help raise money towards the £3m which the national retailer has pledged to raise for Sport Relief. Over the next four days Chief Executive Officer Justin King will run the 32 miles in total - one mile in 32 different locations across the UK. Justin began his first mile in Holywood, near Belfast and completes his final run on Saturday 20th March in Barnet. He was seen off in the Holywood store by local MLAs Conal McDevitt and Billy Armstrong, (pictured).
Aged PMS Savers Relief
Presbyterian Mutual Society members who were in danger of passing away before receiving their investments if it stayed in administration for a mooted five more years have had a reprieve. A proposed five-year extension to running the collapsed Society in administration has been cut to 12 months. Lawyers for administrator Arthur Boyd told the High Court he was anxious to avoid needless expenses or delays. They amended his plans amid concerns that some elderly people may not live long enough to enjoy their investments if a long-term extension was granted. Nearly 10,000 Presbyterians across Northern Ireland lost access to their savings when it went into administration just over a year ago following a run on its funds. The High Court has already ruled that shareholders with less than £20,000 in the PMS cannot receive interim payments from a £20 million pot of assets realised.
Biker Robbers Flee
A stolen motorcycle was abandoned by bank robbers yesterday as they attempted to make off with a sum of cash stolen from a bank when their getaway vehicle failed to start. Police said that two men wearing black motorcycle helmets, one of them armed with a handgun, entered the premises at a shopping complex on the Saintfield Road, Knockbreda, shortly after 11am on Thursday. Staff were threatened and forced to place a sum of cash in a dark-coloured backpack, before the men tried to make their escape, but the red, white, blue and yellow motorcycle failed to start and the men fled on foot.
Holylands Needs Long Term Fix
Planning regulations on student houses must be tightened to provide a long-term solution to anti-social behaviour in the Holy Land area of Belfast. Eight people were arrested in the area, but disturbances did not reach the scale of last year's riots and, speaking after a relatively quiet Saint Patrick's Day, the University of Ulster vice Chancellor Professor Richard Barnett commended the agencies who worked together on Wednesday to minimise disorder during the St Patrick's Day festivities, but stressed the response involving intensive patrolling by police, council and university officials and mobile CCTV cameras was only a "sticking plaster" on a long-standing problem that had yet to be tackled.
Killer Soldier Freed
An Irish soldier who shot dead three colleagues in the Middle East has been formally released from prison in Co Antrim. Michael McAleavy served more than 27 years for killing the three Irish Army comrades while on peacekeeping duties in the Lebanon in 1982. The west Belfast man had been living part-time in the community in recent months as part of pre-release scheme from Maghaberry jail in Co Antrim. It is understood his sentence was formally served on Monday. His release was directed by the Independent Parole Commission.
(BMcC/GK)
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