John Menzies profits treble
John Menzies, the Scottish company best known for newspaper distribution, saw half-year profits almost treble. It made £20.6m, up from £7.4m for...
View ArticleChina Mobile sees profits rise 4%
The world's biggest mobile operator, China Mobile, has reported a 4% rise in first-half profits. Net profit for the first six months of the year rose...
View ArticleNew visitor car park at Queen's Medical Centre
A new 150-space visitors' car park is to open at a hospital in Nottingham. It...
View ArticleInsect and fungi to tackle knotweed in Wales
Two projects running in Wales are trying to check the spread of the invasive plant Japanese knotweed. One run by the...
View ArticleWoman 'stabbed' in side by gang in Rochdale
A woman was left with a puncture wound to her abdomen after being attacked by a gang in Rochdale, Greater Manchester. The 47-year-old was...
View ArticleFormer assembly civil servant to review S4C management
A former top civil servant is to conduct a review of the way S4C is run. Sir Jon Shortridge, who was...
View ArticleMore time to quiz driver over Suffolk train crash
Police have been granted more time to question the driver of a tanker involved in a collision with a train in Suffolk. The 38-year-old man from Ely, Cambridgeshire is being questioned on suspicion of...
View ArticleKeydata: Couple win compensation from building society
The Norwich & Peterborough building society has been told to repay £28,000 to a couple to whom it sold a policy from troubled investment firm Keydata. The ruling has been made by the Financial...
View ArticleOfcom reports broadband increase in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland is embracing the online world, according to new research. Seventy percent of homes in NI now have broadband, an increase of 6% from last year, putting the region on a par with the UK...
View ArticleMurphy supports decision to suspend minister
Regional Development minister Conor Murphy has backed the decision to suspend the department's top civil servant Paul Priestly. Mr Murphy spoke about the phone call he had with Mr Priestly on Tuesday...
View ArticleBogus collectors in Kent 'commiting charity fraud'
Bogus clothing collectors in Kent are falsely claiming to be raising cash for the...
View ArticleMan dies after being hit by lorry in Stirling
A pedestrian has died after being hit by a lorry in Stirling on Wednesday afternoon....
View ArticleWoman killed when car crashes into ditch in Suffolk
A woman died when her car went into a ditch and overturned in Suffolk. She...
View ArticleCouncil fined over pier car death
A council was been fined £20,000 over the death of a pensioner who accidentally drove off the edge of a pier and plunged into the sea. Duncan...
View ArticleMotorway contractor killed while placing signs on M4
A motorway contractor has been killed while placing signs on a stretch...
View ArticleParents 'ignored child sex abuse' in Sale
The adoptive parents of two young sisters refused to help them when they said they were being abused by a pair of paedophiles, a court has heard....
View ArticleBrazil court upholds $3m 'slave labour' fine on firm
A Brazilian court has upheld a fine of nearly $3m (£1.93m) on a company accused of keeping people as slave labourers on its ranches for years. The fine is the biggest imposed for employing slave...
View ArticlePeterhead blockade 'cost Faroese skipper £400,000'
The skipper of the Faroese fishing boat prevented from landing its mackerel catch in Peterhead has claimed the blockade cost him more than...
View ArticleDeer stalking website goes live
A website giving walkers and climbers locations of where deer stalking takes place has been launched as a pilot...
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