Belfast Telegraph back issues from November 2001:
NORTHWEST - Tougher sentence campaign
Nov 01, 2001 ... THE family of a young Londonderry man, killed by a drunk driverin England, condemned attempts by his killer to have his jailsentence reduced. Gursharan Singh Panesar today began an appeal against the sevenand a half year jail sentence he received for killing Robert Bradley(20) ...
NORTHWEST - Parents' hit the shops for Christmas goodies
Nov 01, 2001 ... WITH embers from Halloween bonfires barely cold, parents from theNorth West are already frantically searching stores for this year'smost popular Christmas toys. Massive advertising campaigns by toy companies have left hopefulchildren wide-eyed and parents looking into taking out ...
NORTHWEST - Energy winners
Nov 01, 2001 ... THE winners of the Housing Executive's Energy Competition havebeen announced. Cushendun man Daniel Kinney won the overall prize and willreceivea low energy washing machine. And the five area winners, who ...
NORTHWEST - The boat comes in for Christopher!
Nov 01, 2001 ... A MAGHERMASON boy could be taking to the high seas after winninga 22ft boat in an American raffle. Christopher Kelly (11) was enjoying a six-week stay in Wisconsinin the USA with the Project Children Organisation. A few weeks after he had returned home, Christopher received ...
NORTHWEST - West Coast harmony on a beach in Wales
Nov 01, 2001; ... THE band are Huw Bunford, Cian Ciaran, Dafydd Ieuan, Guto Pryceand Gruff Rhys - uncompromisingly Welsh, unerringly gutsy andundoubtedly the major draw at the Nerve Centre this month. Super Furry Animals were formed in 1993 from the fragments ofother bands and have developed a style ...
NORTHWEST - Bahai's discuss future plans
Nov 01, 2001 ... MEMBERS of the Bahai faith from Omagh, Coleraine and Derry heldtheir annual convention in the city. This was one of five meetings which took place across NorthernIreland. The aim of the gathering was to discuss the work of theircommunity and develop plans for the future, as ...
NORTHWEST - Chance to dance
Nov 01, 2001 ... IF YOU are aged between 12 and 18 and have always wanted to dancenow is your chance. Echo Echo begin a new series of their exciting and innovativedance classes for young people on November 7 at ThePlayhouse,Artillery Street. Aimed at young men and women Daring Feet is the ...
NORTHWEST - Waterside's new role in the film festival
Nov 01, 2001 ... THE Waterside theatre will play host to many of the Foyle FilmFestival's top notch screenings this year, including Hollywoodblockbusters A Knight's Tale, Dr T and the Women,Best in Show, theBeatles Mockumentary and a Hard Day's Night. Conor McPherson will introduce the screening of ...
NORTHWEST - Going out ; Tonight
Nov 01, 2001 ... Circus of Horrors, Millennium Forum, 8pm; Brian Kennedy inconcert, The Diamond, Coleraine, 7.30pm; Kila in concert, TheGasyard Centre, 8pm; The Derry Boat, An Grianan Theatre, 8pm; Atribute to Americana music in the Apprentice Boys Memorial Hall inaid of the NI Firemans Fund for the New ...
NORTHWEST - Step into the world of fantasy at horror circus
Nov 01, 2001 ... THE CIRCUS of Horrors continues until Saturdayat the MillenniumForum. The show was formed in the summer of 1995 and was touredextensively throughout the world including Argentina, Chile, Uruguayand Holland as well as in festival dates throughout the UK andIreland and an ...
NORTHWEST - Joseph continues to amaze audience
Nov 01, 2001 ... THE Millennium Forum will play host next week to Bill Kenwright'srecord-breaking production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice'ssmash hit musical Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. The show toured the UK for a phenomenal 12 years from 1979 to1991, attracting an audience ...
Workers stressed, says report
Nov 01, 2001 ... OVER half of Britons suffer stress at work, a survey showedtoday. On the day the UK celebrates National Stress Awareness Day,research by time management company Time/system has found 53% ofBritons are stressed at work due to time pressures. Out of 7,500 workers questioned, ...
Winning touch of Cayenne for chefs
Nov 01, 2001; ... CELEBRITY chefs Paul and Jeanne Rankin were the toast of the towntoday after their Belfast eatery Cayenne scooped a prestigious all-Ireland award. The city centre venue, which was opened almost two years ago, wasnamed Restaurant of the Year in Georgina Campbell's 2002 ...
Political orchestra tunes up for charity cartoonist
Nov 01, 2001; ... THERE are not too many documents which have been signed by IanPaisley, Gerry Adams, Nelson Mandela, Bertie Ahern and Bill Clinton. Therefore a cartoon of Mr Clinton playing a saxophone soloalongside instrument-playing Ulster politicians could be worththousands of pounds. The ...
Travel costs 'will go through the roof' ; Fears the shake-up will hit funding
Nov 01, 2001; ... THE proposed new education system for Northern Ireland could sendschool transport costs through the roof, it was claimed today. Sammy Wilson, deputy chairman of the Assembly's EducationCommittee, has claimed that the plan to give transport assistance toany child attending a school ...
Supergroups in surprise Belfast gig
Nov 01, 2001; ... IRISH supergroupsThe Corrs and Westlife are to top the bill in aconcert in aid of BBC Children in Need this month. Both bands have agreed to take time out of their hectic schedulesto take part in a live outdoor concert in Belfast city centre onFriday, November 16. Tickets for ...
Sentence of headmaster's killer reviewed
Nov 01, 2001 ... THE killer of headmaster Philip Lawrence was today having hissentence "tariff" reviewed by the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Woolf. Learco Chindamo, now 20, stabbed Mr Lawrence to death outside hisschool as he defended a pupil. Chindamo, who was 15 at the time of the stabbing, was ...
Shorts ; Celebrity therapist
Nov 01, 2001 ... CHERIE Blair opened a holistic therapy centre for the womancredited with helping her cope with her hectic lifestyle. The Prime Minister's wife cut the ribbon at the Bharti VyasTraining Centre in central London at a launch party attended by manyof the therapist's celebrity ...
'Armagh seizure serious blow to crime'
Nov 01, 2001; ... THE SEIZURE of half a million pounds worth of illegal goods in CoArmagh has been hailed as a "very significant blow to organisedcrime". The comments came from Security Minister Jane Kennedy, who wasspeaking following Tuesday's seizure. Smuggled and counterfeit goods were ...
Shortages force retired teachers back to work
Nov 01, 2001; ... RETIRED teachers are being brought back into Northern Irelandschools to tackle growing staff shortages, it emerged today. Ray Calvin, Ulster Teachers' Union general secretary, saidschools are having teacher recruiting problems in certain areas. "There are shortages in some ...
Your verdict - What Ulster wants now ; Prospects for peace increasingly gloomy
Nov 01, 2001 ... ALMOST every section of society in Northern Ireland is gloomyabout the prospects for long and lasting peace, according to today'sBelfast Telegraph survey. For the first time since the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, amajority of Catholics are negative about long-term peace. The ...
Your verdict - What Ulster wants now ; On the eve of the crucial Assembly vote, Political Correspondent Chris Thorton analyses the results of the Belfast Telegraph opinion poll
Nov 01, 2001; ... DAVID Trimble's long battle is far from over. The Ulster Unionistleader, who may face the tightest vote of his political career atStormont tomorrow, could be forgiven for expecting a surge in publicapproval after his long quest for IRA decommissioning paid off. If so, he is ...
Plea for more blood donors as stocks plunge
Nov 01, 2001; ... ULSTER blood service chiefs delivered an emergency appeal todayfor hundreds of donors as province-wide supplies dipped to dangerlevel. The transfusion service said stocks of O-negative blood had beendepleted so badly that there were just over 10 units left, comparedwith the usual ...
Murder weapon was used in show of strength
Nov 01, 2001; ... THE terror gang who murdered a former loyalist prisoner in frontof his Catholic girlfriend had staged a sickening propaganda stuntwith the stolen police machine-gun used in the killing, it emergedtoday. Last year the gang who seized the lost Heckler and Koch MP5machine pistol ...
Priest says murderersare 'evil and cowardly'
Nov 01, 2001; ... A CATHOLIC priest today described the murderers of teenager PeterMcNally as "evil and cowardly men." Mr McNally was shot twice in the head by gunmen on Sunday nightas he visited a friend in the Westacres Estate in Drumgor,Craigavon. Fr Kieran McPartland,presiding over this ...
Much more to big vote than First Minister ; David Trimble's path back to office is far from clear. Political Correspondent Chris Thornton analyses the scenarios which could arise in the Assembly tomorrow.
Nov 01, 2001; ... ON paper, it is about 108 Assembly members voting in the jointleaders of the Executive. In reality, Friday's Assembly vote is boiling down to 58unionists deciding whether David Trimble is the leader of unionism. The voting intentions of nationalists, or Mark Durkan's place ...
Methodology of survey
Nov 01, 2001 ... IN the wake of General de Chastelain's announcement that heverified that a significant act of IRA decommissioning had occurredlast week, Ulster Marketing Surveys carried out an opinion poll toascertain the state of public opinion in Northern Ireland. It focused on the credibility ...
Man denies playing a role in Omagh bomb attack
Nov 01, 2001; ... A MAN accused of conspiring to bomb Omagh today denied he had anyoperational role in the bombing, the Special Criminal Court inDublin heard today. Detective Garda Bernie Hanley claimed that during questioningColm Murphy had named a senior dissident republican as the man ...
Integrated body hails new criteria
Nov 01, 2001; ... THE Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education haswelcomed the announcement of new viability criteria for newintegrated and Irish-medium post-primary schools. Martin McGuinness announced yesterday that schools which achievea year 8 intake of 50 pupils will now be eligible ...
Hunting for funds 'uses up too much time'
Nov 01, 2001; ... PEOPLE working in the youth sector spend a disproportionateamount of their time either chasing or reporting on funding, it wasclaimed today. This is one of the findings in an audit report ofcommunity relations and education for citizen work in the youthsector launched this ...
Hooligan gang targets village
Nov 01, 2001; ... RAMPAGING gangs of youths have caused damage running intothousands of pounds in Bessbrook, Co Armagh. It is understood thatup to 30 youths targeted a number ofbusinessesand several shop windows were broken. A fire was alsostarted in a drapery and several cars set alight in ...
Duke visits youth club
Nov 01, 2001 ... THE Duke of Gloucester ended his one-day tour of the provincewith a visit to Omagh Boys and Girls Club at its new restoredStation Centre in the town. The club, founded in 1952, provides opportunities for 400 youngpeople to participate in sport and the creative ...
Double decker bus hits bridge
Nov 01, 2001; ... THE driver of a double decker bus was taken to hospital earliertoday after crashing into the Boyne Bridge in Belfast. The accident occurred around 10.45am when the buscollided withthe bridge at the back of Great Victoria Street. No other passengers were on the bus at the time, ...
Designer clothes stolen
Nov 01, 2001 ... DESIGNER clothes valued at around 10,000 have been stolen from ashop in Warrenpoint during a lunch-time robbery, it emerged today. The thieves struck at the premises in Church Street some timebetween 1pm and 2pm yesterday. The numerous items taken ...
Council is urged to back Trust plan for Causeway
Nov 01, 2001; ... PORTRUSH Chamber of Commerce today urged Moyle Council to acceptthe National Trust's proposals for avisitor centre site at theGiant's Causeway. The council will tomorrow hear presentations from the trust andprivate company Seaport Investments, the other bidder for the nine-acre ...
Briefs ; Robbery bid fails
Nov 01, 2001 ... DETECTIVES in Glengormley are investigating an attempted robberyin Mallusk yesterday afternoon. Two men, armed with a handgun and an iron bar,attempted to rob apost office security van at an oil distribution depot on TrenchRoad. A blank round was discharged and the the van ...
Hospital campaigners take to water and streets
Nov 01, 2001; ... CAMPAIGNERS vowed today to continue the fight to have a new acutehospital located in Enniskillen - after thousands ofpeopletook tothe streets in support of the Hayes Review. TheFermanagh town was brought to a standstill last night for afireworks spectacle in support of the Hayes ...
Embassy bombers must stay in prison
Nov 01, 2001 ... TWO Palestinians convicted of involvement in the 1994 car bombingof the Israeli embassy in London today lost their Court of Appealbid for freedom. Jawad Botmeh (31), a businessman, and banker's daughter SamarAlami (33), both British residents, who were jailed for 20 years ...
Allow patients into new wards - doctors
Nov 01, 2001; ... CONSULTANTS at Ulster's top hospital today urged health chiefs tocough up 2m - and allow them to transfer patients into a new state-of-the-art building. Plans to move patients into the Royal's new hospital were shelvedfor six months yesterday because of a Department of Health ...
Skies light up for Halloween
Nov 01, 2001; ... TENS of thousands ofrevellers descended into Belfast andLondonderry to join in the Halloween celebrations and fireworksdisplays. But while parties were being held up and down the country,firefighters came under attack by gangs of youths in various partsof the province. The ...
Adams raises funds for New Yorkers
Nov 01, 2001 ... SINN Fein president Gerry Adams was today preparing to address aformal dinner in New York aimed at raising cash for families of thevictims of the September 11 terror attacks. Up to 300,000 could be raised when Mr Adams speaks at the annualFriends of Sinn Fein dinner tonight, ...
Ulster pilot's fight against cockpit intruder honoured
Nov 01, 2001 ... THE Ulster-born pilot who fought a cockpit intruder to savehundreds of passengers - including rock star Bryan Ferry andmillionairess Jemima Khan - was being honoured at an awards ceremonytoday. British Airways Captain William Hagan was one of 12 courageousindividuals receiving a ...
Belfast man is stabbed to death
Nov 01, 2001; ... DETECTIVES investigating the murder of a man in east Belfasttoday said they have not ruled out a sectarian motive. Arthur Barryman (46) was stabbed to death by a masked man whoburst into his home in Imperial Street off the Woodstock Road. At around 11.30pm yesterday the ...
Bring willingness into equation
Nov 01, 2001; ... IT STRUCK me as I listened to Tony Blair's address to the WelshAssembly on Monday that I didn't know what Paul Marsden had donewrong. Marsden is the hitherto obscure MP for Shrewsbury who was hauledover the disciplinary coals by Labour Chief Whip Hilary Armstrongfor, it seems, ...
NORTHWEST - Network expo a window for world business
Nov 01, 2001; ... COMPANIES in the North West were today preparing for a majorexhibition at which their products will be showcased to potentialcustomers from throughout the world. Approximately 40 construction and IT firms from Derry and Donegalare expected to exhibit their goods at the Network 2001 ...
NORTHWEST - Householders on vermin alert
Nov 01, 2001; ... DERRY householders were today warned to be on their guard afterreports that the local population of rats and mice has mushroomed. Pest control experts have put the explosion in vermin populationsdown to the mild October weather. The month was the hottest sincerecords ...
NORTHWEST - Halloween gang wore facemasks
Nov 01, 2001; ... SHOTS were fired during an armed robbery in Londonderry in theearly hours of this morning. The robbers took advantage of Hallowe'en celebrations to hold upstaff at a bar in the city. Three men, in boiler suits and Hannibal Lector masks, and eacharmed with a handgun, forced ...
NORTHWEST - Home grown talent shines on the big screen
Nov 01, 2001 ... ACTORS, directors, producers, animators and rock 'n' roll. The preserve of Hollywood you may well think. But with the Budweiser Foyle Film Festival now in its 14th year,homegrown talent has never featured more strongly thanthis year. Stranorlar man Frankie McCafferty will ...
NORTHWEST - Mixing it with the best in today's art world ; Week long programme of events casts a wide net over popular culture
Nov 01, 2001 ... FOLLOWING its successfuf debut last year, "the gathering" returnswith an eclectic week long programme of events starting today. Organised by the Waterside Development Trust in association withthe University of Ulster Magee, Feile na Samhna, An Gaelaras and theVerbal Arts Centre, ...
NORTHWEST - Faultless exposition of Wilde brilliance
Nov 01, 2001 ... THE Importance Of Being Earnest directed by Dan Gordon andperformed the at the Millennium Forum on October 25. The acting was faultless but with Wilde's brilliant script howcan an actor go wrong? The play centres ...
NORTHWEST - Concerts bring in cream of talent to North West
Nov 01, 2001 ... THE Londonderry Amateur Operatic Society and the Britannia Brassand Reed Band have embarked upon their 13th series of charityconcerts. Each year the popularity of these celebrated ensembles grows withaudiences throughout the North West. This year's audiences can expect to ...
NORTHWEST - Becks bishop tipped for top job
Nov 01, 2001; ... THE Bishop who married David and Victoria Beckham - alternativelyknown as Posh and Becks - was today tipped to take over from theChurch of Ireland Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, Dr James Mehaffey. Bishop Paul Colton, a native of Derry, is presently Bishop ofCork. When the Spice Girl ...
What's on tomorrow
Nov 01, 2001 ... BELFAST Blood donation sessions, NIBTS Headquarters, BCH Complex,Lisburn Road, 10am-4.45pm. Art exhibition and sale of paintings, Fisherwick PresbyterianChurch, ChurchHalls, Chlorine Gardens, Malone Road, 10am-9pm. Jumble Sale, St Matthews Parochial Hall, ShankillRoad, ...
NORTHWEST - Dramatic future for young actors
Nov 01, 2001 ... A THEATRE group for young people based at the Playhouse in Derryhas secured a grant to run youth drama workshops. Cityouth will also use the cash from the Arts Council to put onthree productions a year at the theatre. The group meets every Thursday in the Playhouse and is run ...
NORTHWEST - Call for gates at laneway
Nov 01, 2001 ... CALLS were made today for gates to be erected at a laneway inDerry being plagued by anti-social behaviour. Sinn Fein Councillor Barney O'Hagan led the demands for the gatesat the laneway between Mulroy Gardens and Central Drive in theCreggan area of the city. Mr O'Hagan said ...
Ulster Unionists in UDA/UVF talks
Nov 01, 2001 ... ULSTER Unionist sources have given further confirmation of thetalks between the party and loyalist paramilitaries, first revealedin the Belfast Telegraph last month. Details of dialogue ...
'Right to suicide' fight goes before law lords
Nov 01, 2001 ... TERMINALLY-ill Diane Pretty was today renewing her legal battlefor the right to commit suicide with the help of her husband,despite a High Court ruling that the law did not allow a "familymember to help a loved one to die". Mrs Pretty was petitioning a committee of Law Lords ...
Your verdict - What Ulster wants now ; Loyalists should decommission
Nov 01, 2001 ... THE question of loyalist decommissioning brings out the greatestagreement in today's Belfast Telegraph-UMS poll. Four out of five people think loyalist paramilitary organisationsshould decommission in response to the IRA move on arms. The strength of opinion holds up across the ...
Your verdict - What Ulster wants now ; General's patience gets mixed reaction at large
Nov 01, 2001 ... HE may be the most patient man in Northern Ireland but,at leastas far as many Protestants are concerned, it is a virtue unrewarded. General John de Chastelain's long pursuit of decommissioning - hewas first linked to the D-word six years ago, when he was drafted into deal with the ...
Planning process 'to be more open'
Nov 01, 2001; ... THE Department of the Environment today announced new measuresdesigned to make the planning process more open and transparent. The changes will be introduced from November 19 and will includeprocedures to let people know the reasons for planning decisions,and have greater access to ...
Next stop Israel ; Blair tries to restart peace talks during trip
Nov 01, 2001 ... PRIME Minister Tony Blair was today arriving in Israel for talksto help restart the floundering Middle East peace process,increasingly seen as the long-term key to ending the terrorismcrisis. The discussions, with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinianleader Yasser Arafat, ...
'My mind made up on voting'
Nov 01, 2001; ... ULSTER Unionist sceptic Pauline Armitage said today she has madeup her mind on tomorrow's First Minister's election - droppingstrong hints that she could vote against David Trimble. Mrs Armitage, an Assembly member for East Londonderry, would notconfirm that she will oppose Mr ...
Hunger-strike man warns 'lift threat or I will die' ; Sinn Fein politicians ignoring my plight: claim
Nov 01, 2001; ... A LONDONDERRY man who is camped at the gates of Stormont todayvowed to continue his hunger-strike until Sinn Fein lift a deaththreat he claims was imposed on him by the IRA in 1999. Kevin Barry Johnston said he has been on hunger-strike for fourweeks. During that time, the ...
Teacher killer given 12 year sentence
Nov 01, 2001 ... THE Lord Chief Justice today imposed a sentence tariff of 12years upon Learco Chindamo, the killer of headmaster PhilipLawrence. Chindamo, now 21, stabbed Mr Lawrence to death outside his schoolas he defended a pupil. Aged 15 at the time of the stabbing, Chindamo was found ...
Housing market heads for slump
Nov 01, 2001 ... HOUSE prices fell by 0.5% last month as the economic slowdowntook its toll on the property market, Britain's biggest buildingsociety said today. Nationwide said the housing market looked to be heading for aslowdown as job losses and the "nervous global economic climate"since ...