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| Two on-duty police officers have been found guilty of throwing litter from a car |
14th
May 2009 |
| The numbers claiming Job Seekers Allowance in Northern Ireland now stands at 46,100 a rise of 2000 in the last month |
12th
May 2009 |
| Bus and rail fares in Northern Ireland are to increase by up to 3% on Monday |
12th
May 2009 |
| Audit Office criticises Housing Executive for writing off more than £10m in owed rents over five years |
6th
May 2009 |
| One hundred and thirty jobs will be lost with the closure of five Pizza Hut outlets across Northern Ireland |
1st
May 2009 |
| George Best Belfast City Airpor bans motorists droping off passengers outside the terminal |
29th
April 2009 |
| Father-of-four Geoff Kerr, 60, shot dead at his Templepatrick home by gunmen posing as delivery drivers |
28th
April 2009 |
| The Belfast Telegraph earned more than £9m in government advertising over three years, figures have revealed |
21st
April 2009 |
| One of Belfast's oldest citizens Maria McQuillan from south Belfast, celebrates her 107th birthday |
17th
April 2009 |
| 169 bedroom Ramada Encore of the St Anne's Square area of Belfast opens Monday 6th April '09 creating 60 jobs |
6th
April 2009 |
| Ian Paisley Jnr says he will take the name of his source to his grave after High Court ruling to disclose |
3rd
April 2009 |
| Staff at Bombardier's factories in Northern Ireland have been told almost 1,000 jobs are to go |
2nd
April 2009 |
| Northern Ireland's health service restructuring has come into effect with a new regional health board in place |
1st
April 2009 |
| UK government defeated by Lords over plans to introduce controls over people
traveling between UK & Ireland |
1st
April 2009 |
| Gordon Brown curbs top public servants' pay whilst MP's get bigger pay rise |
31st
March 2009 |
| Petrol bombs thrown at an Orange Hall in Belfast's Clifton Street, whilst about 50 people were meeting inside |
31st
March 2009 |
| MPs are to receive a pay rise of 2.33% from 1 April, bringing their annual salary to about £64,766 |
20th
March 2009 |
| The Edinburgh home of former Royal Bank of Scotland boss Sir Fred Goodwin has been attacked |
25th
March 2009 |
| Irish exhibit painting of taoiseach Brian Cowen wearing the
Emperor's New Clothes - the art was later removed |
24th
March 2009 |
| A second man has been charged with the murder of Constable Stephen Carroll aged 48 in Craigavon on 9 March |
24th
March 2009 |
| Tory MP lodges an official complaint about Labour minister Tony McNulty's second home expenses claims |
23rd
March 2009 |
| MPs sacrifice more of our rights and back government plans to hold some inquests in private without a jury |
23rd
March 2009 |
| Employment minister Tony McNulty denies having done anything wrong by claiming second-home expenses |
22nd
March 2009 |
| Iris Robinson, chair of the Stormont health committee will not face prosecution over her homosexual comments |
20th
March 2009 |
| IN the last 12 months the number of people claiming unemployment benefits in Northern Ireland has risen by 75.7% |
18th
March 2009 |
| The funeral of Mark Quinsey (23), one of two soldiers shot dead by the Real IRA takes place |
18th
March 2009 |
| Four students appear in court after St Patrick Day disturbances in the Holyland area of south Belfast |
17th
March 2009 |
| Sir Hugh Orde pays tribute to his fallen officer at the service Constable Stephen Carroll 48 murdered in Craigavon |
13th
March 2009 |
| Former soldiers and police officers have personal weapon licences refused despite current rupublican threat |
13th
March 2009 |
| A fire at the Crumlin Road courthouse in Belfast has destroyed more than 40% of the historic building |
13th
March 2009 |
| Wealthy retired businessman killed himself after he was "appalled" by the result of a third facelift operation |
5th
March 2009 |
| Air accident investigators have revealed how an Easyjet airliner fell 10,000ft during a test flight |
4th
March 2009 |
| State Shaun Woodward states: Bill to devolve policing and justice, has the confidence of the NI Assembly |
4th
March 2009 |
| The accountancy and consulting group KPMG is to make 20 people redundant from its Belfast operation |
4th
March 2009 |
| Some Limavady council staff have refused to wear new uniforms which have a bilingual logo in English and Irish |
27th
February 2009 |
| UUP leader says Lady Sylvia Hermon, is under no immediate pressure to make a decision on a pact with the Tories |
27th
February 2009 |
| Labour Peer Lord Ahmed who sent and received text messages minutes before a fatal crash is jailed for 12 weeks |
25th
February 2009 |
| Armed woman wearing a high-visibility police jacket has robbed a chemists in Comber, County Down |
25th
February 2009 |
| University of Ulster property survey indicates house prices in NI fell sharply in the last 3 months of 2008 |
24th
February 2009 |
| A public inquiry has condemned the failings that led to thousands of people being infected with HIV |
24th
February 2009 |
| Parliament's sleaze watchdog is facing calls to launch a full investigation into Home Secretary Jacqui Smith's
claim |
19th
February 2009 |
| There is to be a public inquiry to examine a planning application which includes a John Lewis department store |
18th
February 2009 |
| A former QC takes the Royal Bank of Scotland to court claiming it concealed the truth when it sold him shares |
18th
February 2009 |
| Hundreds of farmers queue overnight outside government offices to apply for modernisation grants |
17th
February 2009 |
| Local rate increase by up to 8.5% across Northern Ireland except in Castlereagh |
16th
February 2009 |
| Revealed: The hospitality enjoyed by top civil servants - including meals, trips to the opera, tennis & cricket matches |
13th
February 2009 |
| Figures show what the public know - Petrol prices at the pump have been steadily rising since the start of January |
13th
February 2009 |
| Police will not investigate allegations against Lords accused of being willing to change laws for cash |
11th
February 2009 |
| Bog Standard: A competition has been launched to find poetry which will feature in the toilets of Shetland |
9th
February 2009 |
| Environment Minister Sammy Wilson claims a government
ad campaign on climate change as 'insidious propaganda' |
9th
February 2009 |
| Innocent teacher David Bell in bid to clear his name after schoolgirl's claim turned out to be a fabrication |
6th
February 2009 |
| Security Service knew of plan to murder Billy Wright, the inquiry into his death has heard. |
6th
February 2009 |
| Social networking site MySpace has deleted the accounts of 90,000 users it has identified as sex offenders |
4th
February 2009 |
| Presbyterian Minister the Reverend Roy Magee, who helped broker the loyalist ceasefires in the 1990s has died |
2nd
February 2009 |
| Protesters disrupted the launch of proposals on how to deal with the legacy of the Troubles |
28th
January 2009 |
| Sir Paul Stephenson pips Sir Hugh Orde to
the port, to become the next Met Commissioner |
28th
January 2009 |
| Environment Minister Sammy Wilson has said firms should give jobs to locals ahead of foreign nationals |
26th
January 2009 |
| Disbelief spreads as proposals
appear to recommend victims & their killers should be treated
as equals & paid £12k |
23rd
January 2009 |
| Peter Hain was guilty of "serious and substantial" failures in not registering donations says watchdog |
22nd
January 2009 |
| Jack Straw was guilty of a "clear, albeit inadvertent, breach" of the rules in not registering a donation |
22nd
January 2009 |
| Benefit Claimants increased by 1,800 last month leading to NI's biggest annual rise in unemployment in 37 years |
21st
January 2009 |
| Flu bug a significant factor in
the closure of the A&E department at the Ulster Hospital,
Dundonald |
14th
January 2009 |
| Almost 60 jobs awill be lost with the closure of
four Zavvi stores in Northern Ireland |
14th
January 2009 |
| Former RUC Chief Constable Sir
John Herman is remembered, as 1500 people attend a service of
thanksgiving |
11th January 2009 |
| Health Minister Michael McGimpsey introduces new pricing for
prescriptions, which will ultimately be fazed out |
1st
January 2009 |
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