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In the absence of Executive business Education questions will form the first of this week’s action in the chamber. On the face of it the questions belay a mature exchange with little opportunity for ill-tempered spats although the folks on the hill rarely disappoint when Minister Ruane takes the floor. She will be followed at [...]

Almac, one of Northern Ireland’s leading businesses, has secured planning permission for major expansion plans that could potentially see the company create over 500 jobs during the next five years. The global company which provides integrated research, development and manufacturing services to pharmaceutical and biotech companies internationally, has experienced a substantial rate of growth at [...]

Belfast Harbour has completed a £3.2m upgrade to two of the port’s busiest roads, thus improving access for almost two million hauliers and ferry passengers who use the routes annually. The works on a two-kilometre stretch of Dargan Road and Westbank Road mean that the Harbour’s main ferry and container facilities, including the new Stena [...]

What’s the world coming to? DUP member gives approval for PSNI to train Libyan police; DUP minister says “whoever made the decision is living on another planet”. Catholic Church leaders say laity needs increased role in the Church; Catholic bishop says volunteer school governors can serve only if they agree with infallibility of the hierarchy. [...]

Almac and Lilly UK have entered into a partnership to develop a companion diagnostic for ALIMTA, with cisplatin, as a combination therapy for non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer.   The study focuses on evaluating Thymidylate Synthase (TS) as a predictive marker of response to Alimta in combination with cisplatin. A number of parallel exploratory analyses [...]

  Titanic Quarter Chief Executive Mike Smith hosts United States Ambassador to the UK, Ambassador Louis B. Susman, and the US Government’s new Economic Envoy to Northern Ireland, Declan Kelly, on a tour of Belfast’s Titanic Quarter. The tour was the first stop of a two-day visit to Northern Ireland for Ambassador Susman and Mr [...]

Evolve – Northern Ireland’s new public policy forum got off to a flying start with its first event in the Ulster Hall yesterday. The sell-out event, which including public, private, not-for profit and education sector, heard keynote speaker Jack McConnell deliver an engaging presentation on the experience of devolution in Scotland and how the administration [...]

Stakeholder are delighted to announce that we have been shortlisted for this years CIPR PRide Awards. Reaching the short list is proof to our colleagues and clients that our work has been judged to be among the best in the UK . The PRide Awards is the only awards scheme which showcases the best PR work [...]

The next two months will be crucial for Taoiseach Brian Cowen and his government and the poll ratings will provide little comfort. Cowen is right when he says it does not matter whether his ratings stand at 15 per cent or 55 per cent as the job remains the same. But there is no doubt [...]

Sainsbury’s opens its doors in West Belfast Sainsbury’s today opened its largest supermarket in Northern Ireland with the launch of the new 69,000 sq ft store at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. This is one of the biggest new build stores opened by the retailer anywhere in the UK in a decade. The new [...]