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24/03/2009
Other NI News In Brief
Royal Hospital Fire Out
Some patients and staff had to be moved after a gas cylinder caught fire at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast earlier today, (Tuesday). It happened at the site where a new critical care unit is being built. The fire service said the fire was extinguished and officers are cooling the cylinder down.
Security Alert Ends In North Belfast
A security alert in north Belfast has been declared an elaborate hoax and residents have been allowed back after a number of homes were evacuated as a precaution. The Ballygomartin Road had been closed due to the incident with the police and an Army bomb disposal team earlier examining a suspicious object near the old Park View stores. The road closure was between Ballygomartin Road's junction with Forthriver Road and Twaddell Avenue.
'Starving' Suspects Still Held In Murder Probe
Two suspects who are being quizzed over the murder of PSNI Constable Stephen Carroll have been refusing food for a week, it has been claimed. It is said the suspects, men aged 31 and 27, have not eaten since they were detained in Antrim for questioning. A spokesman for Republican Sinn Fein claimed the men have received hospital treatment, been put on drips and had applied to see their own doctors. He said they were protesting at extensions being granted to police for interrogation. A police spokeswoman confirmed yesterday that one detainee has been receiving medical treatment and that arrangements are being made for him to see his own doctor.
Blind Payments Increase
Margaret Ritchie, the NI Social Development Minister, has announced that the mobility component of Disability Living Allowance will be increased for blind people here. The Minister had raised this with the Westminster Secretary of State for Work and Pensions James Purnell when she met with him in Whitehall, stressing the case for additional help in relation to blind people's mobility. The Minister has welcomed the amendment to the Welfare Reform Bill currently going through Parliament, which will allow those with severe sight impairment to have access to the higher rate mobility component. Subject to Executive approval, corresponding legislation will be brought before the Assembly which will help over 2,000 visually impaired people with additional mobility costs.
Fraud Quota Fishermen Jailed
Two Co Down fishermen have received jail terms for failing to pay a confiscation order after being convicted of landing illegal quotas of fish. The pair, 55-year-old Charles Leslie McBride, from Cromlech Park, Mountain Rd in Kilkeel, and his son, 35-year-old Charles Hubert McBride, from Irvington Park. Kilkeel, were jailed for two months and three months respectively at Liverpool Crown Court. They appeared along with another man, 65-year-old Leslie Clifford Girvan, from Rooney Rd in Kilkeel. They had been ordered to pay back more than �1million to the Assets Recovery Agency. The three men, along with two Kilkeel-based fish processing companies of which they were directors, had made an estimated �15m from the sale of illegally caught fish. They had been fined �370,000 after admitting several specimen charges of landing fish in excess of their quota in 2007.
Ground Improvement Works Completed In Larne
Residents in Larne have welcomed the work recently undertaken to improve ground in the St John's Place area. The project, funded by the Housing Executive, was lauded by Dixon Park Residents Association chair Anne Marshall. She said: "The new planting and fencing have given a real lease of life to these areas - let's work to keep them this way." The improvement are part of a wider programme to rehabilitate green areas at St John's Place and also at Millbrook.
(BMcC/JM)
Some patients and staff had to be moved after a gas cylinder caught fire at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast earlier today, (Tuesday). It happened at the site where a new critical care unit is being built. The fire service said the fire was extinguished and officers are cooling the cylinder down.
Security Alert Ends In North Belfast
A security alert in north Belfast has been declared an elaborate hoax and residents have been allowed back after a number of homes were evacuated as a precaution. The Ballygomartin Road had been closed due to the incident with the police and an Army bomb disposal team earlier examining a suspicious object near the old Park View stores. The road closure was between Ballygomartin Road's junction with Forthriver Road and Twaddell Avenue.
'Starving' Suspects Still Held In Murder Probe
Two suspects who are being quizzed over the murder of PSNI Constable Stephen Carroll have been refusing food for a week, it has been claimed. It is said the suspects, men aged 31 and 27, have not eaten since they were detained in Antrim for questioning. A spokesman for Republican Sinn Fein claimed the men have received hospital treatment, been put on drips and had applied to see their own doctors. He said they were protesting at extensions being granted to police for interrogation. A police spokeswoman confirmed yesterday that one detainee has been receiving medical treatment and that arrangements are being made for him to see his own doctor.
Blind Payments Increase
Margaret Ritchie, the NI Social Development Minister, has announced that the mobility component of Disability Living Allowance will be increased for blind people here. The Minister had raised this with the Westminster Secretary of State for Work and Pensions James Purnell when she met with him in Whitehall, stressing the case for additional help in relation to blind people's mobility. The Minister has welcomed the amendment to the Welfare Reform Bill currently going through Parliament, which will allow those with severe sight impairment to have access to the higher rate mobility component. Subject to Executive approval, corresponding legislation will be brought before the Assembly which will help over 2,000 visually impaired people with additional mobility costs.
Fraud Quota Fishermen Jailed
Two Co Down fishermen have received jail terms for failing to pay a confiscation order after being convicted of landing illegal quotas of fish. The pair, 55-year-old Charles Leslie McBride, from Cromlech Park, Mountain Rd in Kilkeel, and his son, 35-year-old Charles Hubert McBride, from Irvington Park. Kilkeel, were jailed for two months and three months respectively at Liverpool Crown Court. They appeared along with another man, 65-year-old Leslie Clifford Girvan, from Rooney Rd in Kilkeel. They had been ordered to pay back more than �1million to the Assets Recovery Agency. The three men, along with two Kilkeel-based fish processing companies of which they were directors, had made an estimated �15m from the sale of illegally caught fish. They had been fined �370,000 after admitting several specimen charges of landing fish in excess of their quota in 2007.
Ground Improvement Works Completed In Larne
Residents in Larne have welcomed the work recently undertaken to improve ground in the St John's Place area. The project, funded by the Housing Executive, was lauded by Dixon Park Residents Association chair Anne Marshall. She said: "The new planting and fencing have given a real lease of life to these areas - let's work to keep them this way." The improvement are part of a wider programme to rehabilitate green areas at St John's Place and also at Millbrook.
(BMcC/JM)
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