Belfast Telegraph back issues from September 2008:
North West gearing up for fashion week
Sep 01, 2008 ... FASHION retailers in the North West are confident thatLondonderry's first ever fashion week - to be held this month - will provide a major commercial boost. Donal Doherty, director of Converse Group, which is organisingthe event, says that the concept has become a major part of ...
Local retailers up for awards ; IN BRIEF
Sep 01, 2008 ... NORTHERN Ireland independent retailers have been nominated in arange of categories at an industry awards. Nominees at the Retail Industry Awards include Gwen Patterson ofCentra Moat ...
Paper firm goes green by unveiling electric van
Sep 01, 2008; ... A BELFAST paper company has gone green with a new hi-techelectric van which saves an estimated 4,250 litres of fuel a year. McNaughton Paper NI, a subsidiary of the James McNaughton Group,said the truck also saves around 12 tonnes of carbon dioxide exhaustemissions a year, compared ...
Boost for Larne Euro-route link
Sep 01, 2008; ... COMPLETION of the Larne "Euro-route" link with Scotland has beenboosted by talks Regional Development Minister Conor Murphy has hadwith his Edinburgh Parliament counterpart, it was revealed today. Larne developed its roll-on roll-off capacity with new ramps inthe late 1970s as part ...
Council programme boosts businesses
Sep 01, 2008; ... LISBURN City Council's programme of working with companies in itsarea has resulted in14 businesses benefiting, it was revealed today. The programme, funded by Lisburn City Council's EconomicDevelopment Unit, is delivered in partnership with the University ofUlster, giving tailored ...
Marketing strategy needed if you want more website traffic
Sep 01, 2008; ... QUESTION: My website is not producing any new sales opportunitiesfor me. What can I do to drive more traffic to my site? NIALL McKEOWN, managing director of ION Technologies replies: The first question that needs to be asked is what is theobjective of your website? Forget about ...
It's double Gold for local bakery ; IN BRIEF
Sep 01, 2008 ... CHRISTMAS has come early for Irwin's Bakery - winning a doublegold in the Great Taste Awards with two seasonal products for theChristmas market. Irwin's' ...
Cookstown store creates 35 new jobs
Sep 01, 2008; ... THIRTY-five new jobs have been created by Heatons and SportsDirect who have opened the doors to their 16,500 sq ft store inMcAleer & Rushe's Pounds 10m retail and office scheme in Cookstown. The site includes a 150 space car-park below-deck providingcustomers with safe, convenient ...
Growth potential a 'tasty' prospect ; the BIG interview NICOLA DONNELLY, PROJECT MANAGER, NORTHERN IRELAND SEAFOOD
Sep 01, 2008 ... HOW'S BUSINESS? It's a busy but transitional period of change for NorthernIreland Seafood. As existing funding comes to an end, ourorganisation is looking forward to the development of a new strategyand embracing the challenge and opportunity that is outlined in theforthcoming ...
Plan ahead for a university education
Sep 01, 2008; ... QUESTION: I heard recently that the cost of university educationis substantial. What are the best ways of providing for this? ANSWER: The recent exam results will have brought a mixture ofemotions for school pupils who have spent the last few yearspreparing and revising for their ...
JOHN SIMPSON'S COMPANY SNAPSHOT
Sep 01, 2008; ... NORBROOK Laboratories in Newry is Northern Ireland's largestmanufacturer of pharmaceutical products, mainly for veterinaryusage. The Northern Ireland company is a manufacturing supplier to alarge number of other subsidiary companies in the Norbrookconnection. Norbrook ...
Airport plans are set for take-off
Sep 01, 2008 ... MORE than four years after Belfast City Airport first lodged anapplication for a review of its planning consent, matters aregrinding towards a conclusion. It now seems likely that a revised planning agreement will bepublished in the next few weeks, and that this will result in ...
The future for school leavers
Sep 01, 2008 ... THIS is the time of year when thousands of school leavers arethinking about their career options and looking for jobs or a placeat college. Without the right guidance and help, they can find it abewildering experience. The Conservatives would like to see the careers ...
The complicated business of monitoring law
Sep 01, 2008; ... THE law on surveillance of workers is complicated as there arefour pieces of law which cover it and these laws overlap with eachother. They are: * The Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) * The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) andassociated Regulations (known as ...
The long arm of the tax man and his intelligence sources
Sep 01, 2008; ... RECENTLY I wrote about a guy arrested by HM Revenue & Customscaught in Afghanistan about to board a flight with 1 kg of cocaine. The story demonstrated the cooperation which exists among lawenforcement agencies the world over. It may be that the arrest resulted from ...
'Invisible hand' is guiding students in right direction
Sep 01, 2008; ... "WHAT do you know that the market doesn't?" US Treasury SecretaryPaul O'Neill snarled at someone who had the temerity to suggest thedollar was too high (admittedly, it was a few years ago.) The reputation of markets is not what it was back then. Theextreme form of that reputation, ...
Skills - from top to bottom
Sep 01, 2008; ... As schools and students reflect on another batch of A level andGCSE results, Joanne Stuart of the Institute of Directors warns thatthe skills shortage is threatening the expansion of the province'sprivate sector SIR David Varney's second report on the competitiveness of ...
Lewis' last stand: fingers crossed for a fast solution ; SHOP TALKING
Sep 01, 2008 ... TIME will tell whether it is to be third time lucky for JohnLewis in its bid to open a department store at Sprucefield. Although the scheme has been refined, and the number of ancillarystores reduced, it is likely that the public inquiry will be anotherhumdinger. Indeed, as ...
PEOPLE ON THE MOVE
Sep 01, 2008 ... People On The Move is a free service. If you, or someone in yourcompany, is making a career move let our readers know. Please send acolour jpeg and details in the approved format (below) to:bustel@belfasttelegraph.co.uk Name: Claire McBride. Company: Stakeholder ...
PEOPLE ON THE MOVE
Sep 01, 2008 ... People On The Move is a free service. If you, or someone in yourcompany, is making a career move let our readers know. Please send acolour jpeg and details in the approved format (below) to:bustel@belfasttelegraph.co.uk Name: John Hart. Company: Stakeholder ...
Strong euro leads to increased footfall in north's supermarkets
Sep 01, 2008; ... THOSE stores in the North West that are still not accepting euroat the tills may be doing themselves no favours whatsoever. Figures released recently by ASDA show the scale of the growingcross-border trade, with the supermarket giant saying that 40% ofits takings in Strabane are ...
PEOPLE ON THE MOVE
Sep 01, 2008 ... People On The Move is a free service. If you, or someone in yourcompany, is making a career move let our readers know. Please send acolour jpeg and details in the approved format (below) to:bustel@belfasttelegraph.co.uk Name: Chris ...
PEOPLE ON THE MOVE
Sep 01, 2008 ... People On The Move is a free service. If you, or someone in yourcompany, is making a career move let our readers know. Please send acolour jpeg and details in the approved format (below) to:bustel@belfasttelegraph.co.uk Name: Brian Ross. Company: Musgrave ...
PEOPLE ON THE MOVE
Sep 01, 2008 ... People On The Move is a free service. If you, or someone in yourcompany, is making a career move let our readers know. Please send acolour jpeg and details in the approved format (below) to:bustel@belfasttelegraph.co.uk Name: Jason Harvey. Company: Musgrave ...
B&B group calls for new grading system
Sep 01, 2008 ... AN association representing more than 1,100 bed and breakfastproviders in Ireland has called for an all-island grading system. Town and Country Homes said this would offer better consumerchoice and confidence in bed and breakfast accommodation. The call was made at the launch ...
Plans for regeneration of Omagh go on display
Sep 01, 2008 ... NEW proposals for the regeneration of Omagh include capitalisingon its city centre and developing brownfield sites. Details were unveiled as the Social Development Minister,Margaret Ritchie, visited Omagh District Council's offices to viewan exhibition of draft proposals for the ...
Pounds 2m boost for Erneside
Sep 01, 2008; ... A FERMANAGH company is investing more than Pounds 2m in adevelopment of holiday cottages. Portagaria Trading Company has built four luxury traditionalholiday cottages at Leggs near Boa Island on Lower Lough Erne. It is planning to expand the development, including the ...
City Airport curbs set to be relaxed
Sep 01, 2008; ... PLANNING controls at George Best Belfast City Airport limitingthe number of passengers and aircraft movements are set to berelaxed, it emerged today. It is understood that a new draft planning agreement has beenproduced, and is currently being examined by interested ...
Search is on to find local faces for snack ads
Sep 01, 2008; ... KESTREL Foods, one of Northern Ireland's leading healthy snackfood companies, has launched a search to find 'Real Faces' to frontthe company's first ever multi-media advertising campaign. Its new WholeSnacks Homemade range of dried fruit nuts and seedsfrom Forest Feast is to be in ...
Countdown on for Andor Technology takeover bid
Sep 01, 2008; ... THE TIMETABLE has now been drawn up for the management buy-out totake effect at Andor Technology, the Belfast-based specialist cameramaker. An extraordinary general meeting is being convened for September24, at which shareholders are expected to agree to the 73p per shareoffer, ...
HCL shortlisted for sector 'Oscar'
Sep 01, 2008 ... BELFAST and Armagh based business processing company HCL ServiceNI, a division of the Indian company, HCL Technologies, has beenshortlisted for major awards. It has been nominated in four categories in the European CallCentre Awards on September 16, an event regarded as the Oscars ...
Poker power ; IN BRIEF
Sep 01, 2008 ... NORTHERN IRELAND's business leaders are to hear from professionalpoker ace Caspar Berry - a star of the James Bond film CasinoRoyale. Top UK businesses have turned to Caspar Berry ...
God row goes round in circles ; WRITEBACK
Sep 01, 2008 ... I DOUBT if any atheist/humanist would disagree with R Crawford(Write Back, August 21) that the human mind has its limitations.That's why we should be wary of simplistic answers like 'God createdthe universe'. Answers like that explain nothing as they raise more questions.Which ...
Why the DUP is in big trouble ; WRITEBACK
Sep 01, 2008 ... JUDGING by the most astonishing script of political bile writtenby Arlene Foster in the Belfast Telegraph on August 25, the alarmbells are clearly sounding inside the DUP. Arlene's protestations are further evidence of just how rattledthe DUP are over missing out themselves and ...
'Pre-used' goods are misleading ; WRITEBACK
Sep 01, 2008 ... IS THERE no-one amongst the Trading Standards agencies preparedto challenge the misleading and fallacious term 'pre-used', which isemployed by many sales outlets such as second-hand car dealers and,most noticeably, a national company selling computer games? Theprefix 'pre' in this ...
Education makeover in crisis ; WRITEBACK
Sep 01, 2008 ... SO CAITRIONA Ruane says that if the amalgamation of educationadministration doesn't go ahead, millions of pounds will be lost tothe classrooms. This is after Pounds 50m has been spent on creating the EducationSkills Authority (ESA). Does this Pounds 50m cover the redundanciesof ...
SAME AGAIN ; WRITEBACK
Sep 01, 2008 ... Here we go again, talk about talks, shootings, rioting, blastbombs and burning ...
Access to help for ME sufferers is disgraceful ; WRITEBACK
Sep 01, 2008 ... IN RESPONSE to Mr and Mrs McCann's letter (Write Back, August25), it seems that specialist help for ME sufferers may only belacking in some areas of Belfast. It would be interesting to know which health board they residein. It is with interest that the McCanns' daughter ...
FLAG IT UP ; WRITEBACK
Sep 01, 2008 ... Why did the successful Scottish Olympians on their open-topparade down Princes Street have a Saltire ...
TAKE A BREAK FROM HOLIDAYS ABROAD ; With thousands of children here back to school today, summer seems as far away as ever. Never mind, says Michael Moran, hols aren't that great anyway
Sep 01, 2008; ... There's a photo of me on holiday. I look happy enough, but Ican't remember the picture being taken, and four-year-olds are quiteeasily amused, so who can say what I'm smiling at? The photo wastaken in Bognor, that working-class playground of the 1960s. Ihaven't been back since. I haven't ...
'Sex scenes are important and not difficult to write'
Sep 01, 2008; ... Ex-librarians aren't supposed to produce steamy novels. ButSheila Turner Johnston, who spent several years from 1972 onwardsstamping the return date on books in various libraries, includingthe Central Library in Belfast and Omagh public library, has writtena really passionate romantic ...
BEATING THE BULLY
Sep 01, 2008 ... Making tonight's candid BBC One Northern Ireland programme BullyFor You meant that filmmaker Eamonn Devlin had to face the demonsunleashed by years of his own torment and misery at school Bully for You was something that has been in my consciousness formany years. I had never ...
Every swan has to sing sometime
Sep 01, 2008; ... I believe everyone should take time out one day a week to counttheir blessings. That way you have all the rest of the week to countyour grudges. The Friday before last it occurred to me that I've been a veryfortunate man. I was up on the North Antrim coast on one of thosedays ...
Cosy things you just can't do on holiday
Sep 01, 2008 ... * Have a nice cup of tea: Ask an American to make you a cup oftea and after you have negotiated your way away from a bewilderingchoice of 'erb tinctures, you will be presented with a greyishliquid capped with a thin slick of scum. * Watch proper telly: Foreign telly is rubbish ....
It's truly Scrumptious ; let's go out
Sep 01, 2008; ... Today sees the kick off of Belfast's Annual Food and DrinkFestival, Scrumptious. The event will run for the month of Septemberand there is just about every kind of food event that you canimagine taking place all over Belfast and beyond. Scrumptious alsogoes hand in hand with the 8th Open ...
SHOWS ; let's go out
Sep 01, 2008; ... The building may be physically gone, but it's still there inspirit. Tonight sees the opening of the latest production of theLyric Theatre. Taking place at the Queen's University Drama Studioin University Square, Pumpgirl is coming back to Belfast aftersuccessful runs in London, Manhatten ...
CINEMA ; let's go out
Sep 01, 2008; ... Babylon AD (12A, 90mins) Vin Diesel is back, and he's babysitting again. This one proves alittle better and he gets to flex his muscles again. Wonderfulinternational support from Michelle Yeoh and Gerard Depardieu. Step Brothers (15, 98mins) Will Ferrell is continuing ...
PUBS and clubs ; let's go out
Sep 01, 2008; ... If there are any brain cells left after the weekend, then you cangive them a work out tonight at your choice of pub quiz. The Big Empire Quiz is at the Empire Bar at 10pm, admissionPounds 1 per person, or upstairs at the Errigle Inn on the OrmeauRoad. If you prefer things a ...
EATING OUT
Sep 01, 2008 ... Mary Ann's Bar and Restaurant, Castletownshend, Co. Cork A quality package that would put Northern Ireland to shame is onoffer on the south-west coast of Ireland, but while the standardsare high, so are the prices. At any rate though, well worth a visit. Billy Andy's, 66 ...
MUSIC ; let's go out
Sep 01, 2008; ... Fans of punk rejoice tonight, Charlie Horse, the band startedfrom sheer boredom in Banbridge, will be playing in the Middle Barat the Pavilion Bar on the Ormeau Road tonight. Support will come from Spastik Dropouts and No Potential. Doorsopen at 9pm, admission Pounds 3. Also ...
Why is it always raining in Northern Ireland newsrooms?
Sep 01, 2008; ... Well, that was the summer that was. Or should I say: wasn't! Imissed the worst of August thankfully through being on holiday ineat-your-heart-out, sun-kissed France, followed by the Olympics inBeijing. Back in Belfast situ, I look out at the persistently leaden skiesof Ulster and ...
An uncertain school year begins
Sep 01, 2008 ... Those without children will notice it first on the roads, thanksto that sudden and impressive growth in traffic numbers. For thosewith children, there has been no way to escape notice for weeks now:the new school year is upon us. The children who've spent the past eight weeks ...
America's lies on Middle East spin out of control
Sep 01, 2008; ... How on earth do they get away with it? Let's start with warbetween Hizbollah and Israel - past and future war, that is. Back in 2006, Hizbollah captured two Israeli soldiers from theirside of the Lebanese frontier and dragged them into Lebanon. TheIsraelis immediately launched a ...
Can low-budget airlines weather turbulent times in UK economy?
Sep 01, 2008; ... As hundreds of Zoom customers attempt to secure a refund fortheir cancelled flight, Lisa Smyth asks whether the demise of thebudget transatlantic airline signals the end of cheap air travel HUNDREDS of Northern Ireland air passengers have been caught upin the aftermath of the ...
Revealed: the DIY weapons being builtin our jails
Sep 01, 2008; ... PRISONERS in Northern Ireland are using everyday items foundinside jails to make weapons, drug paraphernalia and homemadealcohol. Drug pipes, makeshift weapons and homemade hooch were among the3,867 items removed from inmates' cells by prison staff sinceJanuary 2006, new ...
Fresh move in fuel price war as Tesco offers discount vouchers
Sep 01, 2008; ... ONE of Northern Ireland's leading supermarkets has pledged to cutcustomers' fuel costs. Tesco shoppers who spend Pounds 50 or more either in store oronline from today will receive a coupon giving them five pence off alitre of petrol or diesel, up to a maximum of 100 ...
Language barriers for Samsung ; ASSEMBLY NOTES
Sep 01, 2008; ... SDLP councillor and Irish language enthusiast Mark H Durkan had acupla focal for Samsung when it emerged Irish language mobiles wouldsoon be in the Republic but not Northern Ireland. "This was clearly a failure by Samsung to recognise thecommercial potential of the Irish language ...
Ten years on, not much has changed ; ASSEMBLY NOTES
Sep 01, 2008; ... This week, 10 years ago, Sinn Fein was poised to enter a round ofnegotiations with unionists to secure the future of power-sharinggovernment at Stormont. September 1998 saw Gerry Adams emerge from his first face-to-face meeting with the then Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble ...
DUP wins backing from west Belfast ; ASSEMBLY NOTES
Sep 01, 2008; ... These are strange times for DUP supporters. Dogged for months by the prospect of losing votes to JimAllister's TUV, now they hear their party is building a new supportbase in west Belfast. When residents of the Twinbrook area joined the Stephen NolanShow this week to ...
Will press officers win a 2012 gold? ; ASSEMBLY NOTES
Sep 01, 2008; ... As the long build-up to London 2012 got into full swing this weeka home grown medal contender for the next Olympics has alreadyemerged. Unionist renegade Jim Allister (pictured) has been running hiseye over the early form guide and thinks he's spotted NorthernIreland's next ...
Mansion blaze wife was shot in head ; A second charred body 'is an adult man'
Sep 01, 2008; ... THE investigation into an inferno at the home of a missingmillionaire and his family officially became a murder hunt yesterdayafter one of the bodies found in the charred wreckage was confirmedas the businessman's wife. Jill Foster (49) was shot in the head before the family home ...
Horror at millionaire's home: the key events
Sep 01, 2008 ... * Monday, August 25: Christopher Foster, his wife Jill and their15-year-old daughter Kirstie leave a friend's barbecue in theevening to head home to Osbaston House, in Maesbrook, Shropshire. * Tuesday, August 26: A huge fire breaks out at the mansionaround 4am. Police say the ...
Teen, 14, is London's latest knife victim
Sep 01, 2008 ... A 14-year-old boy died in hospital yesterday after being stabbedduring an east London brawl the previous night and is the 25th teenmurdered in the capital this year, and the 20th knife victim. The violence erupted near St Thomas' Place in Hackney, where agroup of youths had ...
There's no place like Tyrone for believing
Sep 01, 2008; ... THE dream final is on. After yesterday's thrilling All-Irelandsemi-final, it's Tyrone against Kerry in Croke Park in three weekstime. Back in May this was a Tyrone team who had huge question marksover their heads. No full-back. No midfield. And their marqueeforward Stephen ...
Why Kerry must concede they are vulnerable
Sep 01, 2008; ... KERRY confirmed themselves as one of the great teams in themodern era with a sparkling 3-14 to 2-13 victory over Cork in theirAll-Ireland semi-final replay. Kerry produced some fantastic football in what was a memorablegame against their most fierce rivals. Colm Cooper and ...