Odyssey Pavillion on market for £10m
The Odyssey Pavilion in Belfast has been put on the market for a price of over £10m.It is being sold on the instruction of the administrator KPMG, with the sale being handled by real estate advisors...
View ArticlePregnant women urged to take flu jab
HEALTH Minister Edwin Poots has called on all pregnant women in Northern Ireland to take the seasonal flu jab.Launching the annual vaccination programme, Mr Poots said last year saw one of the highest...
View ArticleRegistration rules ‘risking 500 taxi jobs’
REQUIREMENTS by the Department of Environment (DoE) for taxi drivers to register as home-based businesses are threatening to put 500 drivers out of work, it has been claimed.The new regulations came in...
View ArticleIrish government in parade meetings
THE DUP has pressed for explanations after it found that three members of the Parades Commission have been meeting with officials from the Irish government.East Londonderry MP Gregory Campbell used the...
View ArticleNI inquiry into abuse set to begin
A STATE inquiry into historic institutional abuse in Northern Ireland is to begin preliminary work next week.The first stage of the Stormont probe will see victims being given the chance to register to...
View ArticleBryson reports 12 per cent growth
PIONEERING social enterprise Bryson Charitable Group grew its business by more than 12 per cent last year despite the economic uncertainty as revenues rose from £30.7 to £34.4 million, the annual...
View ArticleLisburn to lose 50 jobs
NEARLY 50 people are to lose their jobs in Lisburn as a firm announced it is to relocate to England.Communisis, a marketing company which prints bank cheque books, said it plans to close the Altona...
View ArticleBands remember tragic Spences
DRUMBEAT By QUINCEY DOUGANAS we approach the end of the band season, the ‘on the road’ part of every Ulster band’s year, the schedule is slowing down. This was reflected last weekend with only two band...
View ArticleShowbiz latest
The latest celebrity gossip from the Press Association’s showbiz reporters:: SELENA GOMEZ has revealed she’s struggling to describe her new film Feed The Dog.The actress recently finished shooting the...
View ArticleMan killed in Coleraine factory accident
A MAN is understood to have died after an industrial accident in Coleraine on Thursday morning.It is believed the accident happened at a sawmills on the New Mills Road in the town.Officers from the...
View ArticleLodge to be instituted on Covenant centenary
A new Orange Lodge is to be instituted on the centenary of the signing of the Ulster Covenant.Grand Master of the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland, Edward Stevenson, will hand over a warrant to the first...
View ArticleDissidents held over ‘spying on Gardai’
Two dissident republicans are being questioned after surveillance equipment was seized in a hotel room overlooking Dublin’s garda headquarters.Detectives at Harcourt Square in Dublin became aware of...
View ArticleUnionist unity call dangerous - Ringland
A JOINT call from Peter Robinson and Mike Nesbitt for unionist unity in the celebration of the Covenant, has been described as dangerous by former rugby international Trevor Ringland.Published in...
View ArticleDelays could see A5 scheme lose £millions
FOR every month that the controversial A5 dualling project is delayed, £10million could be redirected to other projects, it was confirmed yesterday.In July, the Roads Minister Danny Kennedy gave the...
View ArticlePSNI hunt fake detective
A BOGUS caller who posed as a police detective, claimed he had recovered cash from two youths he had arrested for burglary.Details of the intricate deception were revealed by police in Newtonabbey, who...
View ArticleNews Letter appoints new editor
JOHNSTON Press has appointed Rankin Armstrong as the new editor of the News Letter.Rankin has been on the paper’s staff for 14 years, joining as an assistant editor in July 1998 and moving to the role...
View ArticleHigh-profile support for Sandy Row boxers
A FORMER Labour sports minister has given her backing to a south Belfast boxing club fighting to break away from the nationalist-dominated local boxing authorities.Ulster-born Kate Hoey – who served in...
View ArticleLoyal Orders and protesters appeal for calm
THE Loyal Orders commemorating Saturday’s Covenant centenary and the protesters expected to gather in north Belfast have both called for calm.An expected 150 Carrick Hill residents are due to protest...
View ArticleIAN PAISLEY: Sir Edward Carson – a people’s politician
FOR our generation, the nearest memory we have in scale to the numbers thronging the City Hall on Ulster Day 1912, are the Anti Anglo-Irish Agreement rallies.Those rallies, and indeed that period in...
View ArticlePublic can sign Covenant online 100 years on
MEMBERS of the public can go online and sign the Covenant on Friday at the exact moment the original signing took place 100 years ago.Ulster Unionist MLA Michael Copeland said it was a chance to...
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