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03/12/2010
Other NI News In Brief
'Remembrance Day' Burial
The funeral for the young Co Londonderry soldier Aaron McCormick who was killed in an explosion in Afghanistan on Remembrance Sunday is to take place on Saturday in his home village. The 22-year-old from Macosquin was helping to clear roadside bombs in the Helmand area when he was killed. He will be buried after a service at St Mary's Church of Ireland church with a full military funeral.
Dentist Killer Gets 21 Years
Double murderer, Colin Howell has been sentenced to a minimum term of 21 years for murdering his wife and his former lover's husband. This is the minimum tarrif before he can be considered for release. Dentist Colin Howell, 51, from Glebe Road, Castlerock, pleaded guilty to the murders years after he set up their bodies in a car full of exhaust fumes in 1991 to look like a suicide pact. The case was re-opened last year when Howell admitted the killings at a police station.
Lo Hits Out On Robberies
South Belfast Alliance MLA Anna Lo has expressed disgust at news that a shop on the Ormeau Road has been robbed twice in the past week. She said these incidents must draw politicians' attention again to the motion passed in the Assembly this week calling for measures to be considered to protect shopworkers here in the run-up to Christmas. "Only this week in the Assembly, a motion was unanimously passed calling for action to be considered to help protect shopworkers in the run up to Christmas. These despicable events highlight the need for the Executive to consider more measures to combat such problems. My thoughts are with the owners of this shop and the staff at this difficulty time. People in the area will be appalled at these incidents and I would appeal to anyone with information on them to contact police immediately," she said.
Larne 'Vital NI Hub'
Finance Minister Sammy Wilson has congratulated Larne's enterprise development company, LEDCOM on its 25th anniversary. Initiated in 1985 by Larne Borough Council and LEDU to motivate the creation of enterprise within the local economy, LEDCOM is now the largest local enterprise agency in Northern Ireland in terms of workspace and business and economic development support services. "LEDCOM has played its part in the economic regeneration of Larne and the surrounding area, promoting innovation and entrepreneurship by supporting a vast range and variety of businesses," he said, noting: "We must continue to invest the resources we have, to make Northern Ireland, and key hubs, such as Larne, a better place to do business."
Sport NI Praised
Sports Minister Nelson McCausland has said that good progress was being made in implementing the Northern Ireland Strategy for Sport and Physical Recreation. The strategy, entitled Sport Matters, outlines a new vision for sport and physical recreation in Northern Ireland. It also establishes key targets and priorities for sport's future development as identified by the sports sector, the community at large and a range of other interests across central and local government, the voluntary and business sectors. At the AGM of the Northern Ireland Sports Forum, he said: "I have established a monitoring group made up of a number of government Departments and stakeholders, including the Sports Forum, to oversee the delivery of the strategy. There are significant challenges ahead in delivering Sport Matters and the Sports Forum have an important role to play as members of both the Monitoring Group and the Implementation Groups. However, I am pleased with the significant progress made to date and the structures that have been established," he said.
Stormont Goes West
Junior Ministers Gerry Kelly and Robin Newton have visited both the Shankill and Falls areas of west Belfast to hear about an integrated service aimed at helping young people raise their aspirations. Junior Minister Kelly said: "We have been very impressed today by the work of the Integrated Services, which was one of a number of services funded by the OFMDFM £5million Integrated Development Fund (IDF) for Shankill and West Belfast. They are giving hope to many young people living in severe deprivation in the area. The service has helped to open new doors of opportunity to them as well as expand their young minds and encourage them not only to dream about a better future but to work towards achieving it." Also commenting, Junior Minister Newton added: "Credit is owed to everyone involved with ISCYP who have helped to delivered an integrated model which aims to make the most effective use of limited resources to improve the outcomes for our most at risk children, youth and families."
(BMcC/KMcA)
The funeral for the young Co Londonderry soldier Aaron McCormick who was killed in an explosion in Afghanistan on Remembrance Sunday is to take place on Saturday in his home village. The 22-year-old from Macosquin was helping to clear roadside bombs in the Helmand area when he was killed. He will be buried after a service at St Mary's Church of Ireland church with a full military funeral.
Dentist Killer Gets 21 Years
Double murderer, Colin Howell has been sentenced to a minimum term of 21 years for murdering his wife and his former lover's husband. This is the minimum tarrif before he can be considered for release. Dentist Colin Howell, 51, from Glebe Road, Castlerock, pleaded guilty to the murders years after he set up their bodies in a car full of exhaust fumes in 1991 to look like a suicide pact. The case was re-opened last year when Howell admitted the killings at a police station.
Lo Hits Out On Robberies
South Belfast Alliance MLA Anna Lo has expressed disgust at news that a shop on the Ormeau Road has been robbed twice in the past week. She said these incidents must draw politicians' attention again to the motion passed in the Assembly this week calling for measures to be considered to protect shopworkers here in the run-up to Christmas. "Only this week in the Assembly, a motion was unanimously passed calling for action to be considered to help protect shopworkers in the run up to Christmas. These despicable events highlight the need for the Executive to consider more measures to combat such problems. My thoughts are with the owners of this shop and the staff at this difficulty time. People in the area will be appalled at these incidents and I would appeal to anyone with information on them to contact police immediately," she said.
Larne 'Vital NI Hub'
Finance Minister Sammy Wilson has congratulated Larne's enterprise development company, LEDCOM on its 25th anniversary. Initiated in 1985 by Larne Borough Council and LEDU to motivate the creation of enterprise within the local economy, LEDCOM is now the largest local enterprise agency in Northern Ireland in terms of workspace and business and economic development support services. "LEDCOM has played its part in the economic regeneration of Larne and the surrounding area, promoting innovation and entrepreneurship by supporting a vast range and variety of businesses," he said, noting: "We must continue to invest the resources we have, to make Northern Ireland, and key hubs, such as Larne, a better place to do business."
Sport NI Praised
Sports Minister Nelson McCausland has said that good progress was being made in implementing the Northern Ireland Strategy for Sport and Physical Recreation. The strategy, entitled Sport Matters, outlines a new vision for sport and physical recreation in Northern Ireland. It also establishes key targets and priorities for sport's future development as identified by the sports sector, the community at large and a range of other interests across central and local government, the voluntary and business sectors. At the AGM of the Northern Ireland Sports Forum, he said: "I have established a monitoring group made up of a number of government Departments and stakeholders, including the Sports Forum, to oversee the delivery of the strategy. There are significant challenges ahead in delivering Sport Matters and the Sports Forum have an important role to play as members of both the Monitoring Group and the Implementation Groups. However, I am pleased with the significant progress made to date and the structures that have been established," he said.
Stormont Goes West
Junior Ministers Gerry Kelly and Robin Newton have visited both the Shankill and Falls areas of west Belfast to hear about an integrated service aimed at helping young people raise their aspirations. Junior Minister Kelly said: "We have been very impressed today by the work of the Integrated Services, which was one of a number of services funded by the OFMDFM £5million Integrated Development Fund (IDF) for Shankill and West Belfast. They are giving hope to many young people living in severe deprivation in the area. The service has helped to open new doors of opportunity to them as well as expand their young minds and encourage them not only to dream about a better future but to work towards achieving it." Also commenting, Junior Minister Newton added: "Credit is owed to everyone involved with ISCYP who have helped to delivered an integrated model which aims to make the most effective use of limited resources to improve the outcomes for our most at risk children, youth and families."
(BMcC/KMcA)
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