Ford confirms axe for 1,500 jobs
Ford is to close its Transit van factory and another UK site with the loss of up to 1,500 jobs.The grim news was given to union officials at a meeting with the company and was described as...
View ArticleMan killed mum on Mother’s Day
A 35-year-old Co Antrim man yesterday admitted stabbing his 53-year-old mum to death on Mother’s Day last year, during which his younger brother was also allegedly attacked and wounded in the same...
View ArticleMother denies covering for baby’s killer
CO Fermanagh mother Rachael Martin, facing charges arising out of the death of her 15-month-old toddler, rejected police suggestions she was covering for her daughter’s attacker.Martin, aged 27, from...
View ArticleIndependent Orangemen slam Marie Stopes
AN offshoot of the Orange Order has also come out to condemn the abortion clinic.The Independent Loyal Orange Institution issued a statement reading: “Marie Stopes International is notorious for its...
View ArticleCeefax and Teletext shut down
THE end of Teletext and Ceefax has left some viewers having to find their way around a quite different system.The text service, which has been available for the last 38 years, has disappeared as a...
View ArticleUltimate question a couple should agree on
I HEAR there is a play about me about to open in the Grand Opera House.I have seen the adverts in the papers and the glossy promo leaflets have fluttered onto the doormats of my children’s homes.One of...
View ArticleViable pipe bomb thrown at police
A viable pipe bomb device was thrown at police in Belfast after they were lured into the area by a hoax emergency call, it was disclosed.It failed to explode but could have caused serious injury or...
View ArticleMan’s knees broken by baseball bats
A man has suffered two suspected broken kneecaps after being attacked with baseball bats in his Antrim home.Two men broke into the 38-year-old victim’s house at Islay Street on the town’s Springfarm...
View ArticleWoman ‘facing the future’
MORE than 1,200 Soroptimists – that is, professional and business women who engage in good works – last night joined forces at the Waterfront Hall.The women, from a total of 29 countries, are in...
View ArticleVilliers in New York visit
Theresa Villiers has visited New York to meet key figures in Irish America.The Northern Ireland Secretary met representatives of the American-Ireland Fund, which has raised millions of dollars for...
View ArticleDrugs link to Newtownabbey murder
The fatal shooting of a man in Belfast may have been linked to a fall-out over drugs.Danny McKay, 36, was hit several times - at least once in the face - by a gunman who fired from a hijacked car which...
View ArticleTenants on benefits cutting back
FEWER than a tenth of tenants on housing benefits looked for work to make up shortfalls in their rent in Northern Ireland.Instead they cut back, with almost half spending less on essentials last year...
View ArticleNew NI prison officers graduate
The first group of new prison officers in Northern Ireland graduated today in a sign of “fundamental” change within the organisation.Twenty custody officers completed an eight-week training programme...
View ArticleOrange Order confirm meeting with McGuinness
THE Orange Order has confirmed that they have met with Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness to discuss parading.A short statement posted on the Orange Order Twitter account read: “Grand Lodge can confirm...
View ArticleRobinson warns Sinn Fein to ‘get in line’
PETER Robinson has warned his republican partners in government “to get in line with the programme before they unravel it any further” as the rift between the DUP and Sinn Fein continues.In a speech to...
View ArticleMan dies in farming accident
ULSTER’S farming community has been hit by another tragedy, with the death of a man in Co Tyrone on Friday night.It is understood the victim fell into a cattle feeding machine at the farm on the...
View ArticleRate review will go ahead
THE proposed rating revaluation of non-domestic properties in Northern Ireland will proceed in 2015, Finance Minister Sammy Wilson said yesterday.Mr Wilson said that he planned to proceed with the...
View ArticleHousing market to ‘favour buyers’
FIVE times more Britons think the housing market will favour buyers over the next year than those who believe it will help sellers, according to a study today.Halifax said its findings point to the...
View ArticleHeavenly Tasty in tune for SME pitch
HEAVENLY Tasty Organics, the Omagh-based manufacturer of organic baby weaning meals, is to represent the province next month at the final of The Pitch, the UK’s biggest small business competition.The...
View ArticleTearful trader tells of losses as ‘kid’ at bank
AN alleged rogue trader accused of Britain’s biggest fraud wept yesterday as he told a jury he was trying to cover millions of pounds worth of losses incurred at the bank he called his “family”.Kweku...
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