Customers concerned after late Ulster Bank payments
Ulster Bank has moved to reassure customers that late payments on Friday are not connected to the glitch earlier in the year which saw thousands of customers left unable to access their accounts for...
View ArticleTax returns jump on Christmas Day
The number of people taking to the internet on Christmas Day to fill out their tax returns jumped by 40 per cent this year, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has revealed.A total of 1,548 people took time...
View ArticleDivided UUP bemoaned its ‘inadequate’ leader
A HOST of senior Ulster Unionist figures – including the party’s deputy leader – were in 1982 privately telling the government that Jim Molyneaux’s leadership was disastrous for the party, newly...
View ArticleUUP’s choice: unionist unity or deal with Alliance
THIRTY years ago the Ulster Unionist Party’s press officer privately told the Government that the party should think seriously about “co-operation” with the Alliance Party, newly-released records...
View ArticleMan killed in Dublin suspected gangland shooting
A 35-year-old man has died after a shooting.The man was dropped at St James’ Hospital in Dublin with gunshot wounds on Friday evening.A Garda spokesman said he was pronounced dead in the hospital a...
View ArticleBT expands innovative scheme into rural areas
BT has announced the expansion of its BT Connected Communities programme into rural communities across Northern Ireland. The major initiative, which was launched in a number of cities and towns in 2011...
View ArticleFirst-time buyers ‘on the increase’
First-time home buyer numbers in the UK reached a five-year high in 2012, helped by improvements in affordability, a study has found.However, the average age of a first-time buyer has increased to 30,...
View ArticleHSBC to repay forgotten withdrawals
HSBC has confirmed it is joining banking group Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) in refunding people who forgot to take their cash when making an ATM withdrawal.The bank said it will automatically refund...
View ArticleAlert over home contents insurance
Families are being warned to review their home contents insurance after research found that the value of their possessions increases by around £700 over Christmas.The average household spent around...
View ArticleObama in last-ditch budget talks
Barack Obama yesterday summoned congressional leaders for 11th-hour talks to avert a New Year budget crisis which threatens to drag America into recession.The US President cut short his holiday in...
View ArticleWendy ‘proud’ to engineer a top award
WENDY Blundell, who receives an OBE, is one of just seven per cent of women in the high-powered devolved regions branch of the Institution of Civil Engineers, which covers a large section of the United...
View ArticleNumbers add up for BB stalwart Tommy
IT’S a case of 50, 60 and 70 for MBE recipient Tommy Hanlon – 50 years in charge of a Boys Brigade junior section, 60 years’ association with the BB man and boy, and reaching the milestone of being 70...
View ArticleThe local people who made the Queen’s list
Here is the full list of Ulster’s Honours recipients.Order of the Bath Companions of the Order of the Bath (CB)Mr Oswyn George Paulin Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)Mr Justice...
View ArticleLanterns carry flame for Ulster flag protest
FLAMING lanterns will light up the skies across Northern Ireland at the turn of the New Year as part of the protest over the removal of the Union Flag from Belfast City Hall on all but the 20 official...
View ArticleOne punch can kill, PSNI reminds public
The PSNI has issued a reminder that just one punch can kill in the run-up to the New Year celebrations.Police have been running a campaign to raise public awareness of the dangers of a single punch...
View ArticleMadness in the name of human rights
IT is lunacy, masquerading as human rights, to rule that a murderer has a right to family life.This is what the European Court of Human Rights did in 2007 in the appalling case of Kirk Dickson, who...
View ArticleMan escapes injury after petrol bombing
A petrol bomb and a brick were thrown at a house in Newtownards on Friday.A man aged in his 20s who was in the house in Movilla Street at the time escaped injury.Police said the front window of the...
View ArticleLong-serving UUP councillor gets an MBE
AN Ulster Unionist councillor has been awarded the MBE for her services to local government and the community.Deputy Mayor of Armagh Sylvia McRoberts has been an Armagh and District councillor since...
View ArticleCash and cigarettes stolen in shop robbery
A man claiming to have a gun stole cash and cigarettes during a robbery at a shop in Belfast on Friday night.Shortly after 8pm the man, thought to be aged around 30 and 5ft 10ins tall, told staff in...
View ArticleMan beaten by gang in north Belfast
A man was beaten by up to five people who attacked him in north Belfast, police have said.The gang, one of whom was suspected to have a gun, got out of their Mitsubishi jeep and assaulted the...
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