COPYRIGHT: Material on this webpage copyright Integritext UK. All rights Reserved. Copyright owners have permitted the material on this page to be used for Education, Research & Private Study. No material from this page may be reproduced on any other website or distributed in any other medium.
Search the whole site for any search term.
This page fully supports Safari, Chrome, Mozilla Firefox & Internet Explorer 11 browsers.
WHAT HAPPENED ON 24th January 2001?
23th January 2001
NI HOMES HIT BY GUN AND BOMB ATTACKS
Several homes in Northern Ireland have been targeted in bomb & gun attacks. In Belfast a pipe bomb was thrown into a house off the the Limestone Road in the north of the city. It exploded causing damage but no injuries. Shots were fired at another house in the Ardoyne area of the city. Again no injuries were reported. Two more pipe bombs were thrown through house windows at Kinnard Park in Garvagh County Londonderry.
24th January 2001
STAFF ACTION WOULD HIT SCHOOLS ` HEADS
Schools will have to send pupils home for part of the week if teachers carry out industrial action over staffing shortages headteachers have warned. New guidelines drawn up by the National Association of Headteachers say teachers should cover vacancies. But teachers' union the NASUWT has said it will ballot its London members on plans for a city-wide "no cover" action The NAHT said this would "hit the wrong target" and would damage schools.
24th January 2001
DNA CHECKS ON 2 000 MEN IN RAPE INQUIRY
Detectives are to take DNA swabs from up to 2 000 men in the latest attempt to find the so-called Bath Rapist. Police have isolated a DNA sample from the man they believe is responsible for at least 14 attacks on women in & around the city over the past decade. The hunt for the attacker ` Operation Eagle ` is the largest ongoing investigation of its kind in Britain. Swabs are to be taken from men whose names have come up during the inquiry.
23th January 2001
NI HOMES HIT BY GUN AND BOMB ATTACKS
Several homes in Northern Ireland have been targeted in bomb & gun attacks. In Belfast a pipe bomb was thrown into a house off the the Limestone Road in the north of the city. It exploded causing damage but no injuries. Shots were fired at another house in the Ardoyne area of the city. Again no injuries were reported. Two more pipe bombs were thrown through house windows at Kinnard Park in Garvagh County Londonderry.
24th January 2001
STAFF ACTION WOULD HIT SCHOOLS ` HEADS
Schools will have to send pupils home for part of the week if teachers carry out industrial action over staffing shortages headteachers have warned. New guidelines drawn up by the National Association of Headteachers say teachers should cover vacancies. But teachers' union the NASUWT has said it will ballot its London members on plans for a city-wide "no cover" action The NAHT said this would "hit the wrong target" and would damage schools.
24th January 2001
THALIDOMIDE USED TO TREAT LUNG CANCER
Thalidomide the morning sickness drug which caused birth defects in thousands of children in the 1960s is being tested as a treatment for lung cancer. The properties which led to deformed limbs in babies can also shrink tumours and prevent the disease from returning. Thirty patients with inoperable cancer are being treated at London hospitals. Thalidomide was withdrawn from sale in the UK in 1961 after the effects on pregnant women became known.
23th January 2001
FRENCH NO LONGER IMPORTANT IN TURKEY
Officials at Istanbul international airport say French businessmen can no longer use the fast-track VIP hall. The airport administration chief said only official guests of the Turkish government could now enjoy that perk. The move is a sign of Turkey's outrage over the French parliament vote to recognise as genocide the 1915 deaths of Armenians under the Ottoman empire. Turkey disputes the number of deaths and denies that the killings were part of a deliberate policy of genocide.
24th January 2001
STAFF ACTION WOULD HIT SCHOOLS ` HEADS
Schools will have to send pupils home for part of the week if teachers carry out industrial action over staffing shortages headteachers have warned. New guidelines drawn up by the National Association of Headteachers say teachers should cover vacancies. But teachers' union the NASUWT has said it will ballot its London members on plans for a city-wide "no cover" action The NAHT said this would "hit the wrong target" and would damage schools.
24th January 2001
KENYA
British Airways flight attendant Kerry Weston 21 of Broxbourne Herts has been found dead in a Nairobi hotel room. She was found on January 18 & believed to have died of natural causes AUSTRALIA The Australian Cricket Board says batsman Mark Waugh will be dropped from the national team if he continues to refuse to talk to investigators probing betting & match-fixing claims ITALY Vets are examining the suspected second case of mad cow disease since 1994 the Health Ministry said. The first was confirmed last week.
23th January 2001
DETECTIVES HAIL NEW SARAH PAYNE CLUE
Police probing the murder of schoolgirl Sarah Payne say they have a new clue. A blue & white striped curtain dotted with clowns is now being linked to the attack on the eight-year-old near East Preston West Sussex last year. Police say it had been used for another purpose or thrown out & want details about where it had been used or seen. Sarah from Hersham Surrey was found dead near Pulborough West Sussex two weeks after her July 1 disappearance.
24th January 2001
STAFF ACTION WOULD HIT SCHOOLS ` HEADS
Schools will have to send pupils home for part of the week if teachers carry out industrial action over staffing shortages headteachers have warned. New guidelines drawn up by the National Association of Headteachers say teachers should cover vacancies. But teachers' union the NASUWT has said it will ballot its London members on plans for a city-wide "no cover" action The NAHT said this would "hit the wrong target" and would damage schools.
24th January 2001
SCHOOLS EVACUATED AFTER BOMBS FOUND
At least half a dozen improvised pipe bombs have been discovered on the roof of a primary school in a loyalist area of east Belfast. Some 160 pupils & staff from Beechfield Primary School and adjoining McArthur nursery school were evacuated to a nearby hall. Bomb disposal experts were called in when staff found one bomb on the roof. The experts then found five more apparently being stored on the roof.
23th January 2001
UK JOBS AT RISK AS LUCENT SHEDS 10 000
UK-based jobs with Lucent the world's biggest maker of telecommunications equipment are under threat after it announced it is shedding 10 000 posts. The company which has 107 000 staff worldwide lost £696m in the first three months of its financial year. A spokeswoman said about 1 000 jobs were expected to go in Europe. But it is not yet known how that will affect Lucent's staff at Malmesbury & Swindon in Wilts and Ascot in Berks.
24th January 2001
STAFF ACTION WOULD HIT SCHOOLS ` HEADS
Schools will have to send pupils home for part of the week if teachers carry out industrial action over staffing shortages headteachers have warned. New guidelines drawn up by the National Association of Headteachers say teachers should cover vacancies. But teachers' union the NASUWT has said it will ballot its London members on plans for a city-wide "no cover" action The NAHT said this would "hit the wrong target" and would damage schools.
24th January 2001
DEAD LETTER DAY HITS DUBYA'S NEW STAFF
President George W Bush's White House staff have had the W keys of their computers removed by some outgoing members of the Clinton administration. The joke is at the expense of Mr Bush whose fondness for his middle initial has earned him the nickname "Dubya". W keys were stuck to ceilings & walls for incoming staff to find. A White House spokesman said his first reaction was "wow" but for colleagues with vandalised machines it was "oh".
23th January 2001
EU CUTS COD FISHING AFTER STOCKS SLUMP
Part of the North Sea will be closed to cod fishermen to restore dangerously low stocks the European Union has said The Brussels Commission expects to keep the emergency measures in place for 12 weeks during the spawning season. All boats fishing cod will be banned from protected areas while permits reports & monitoring are tightened. The ban will cover 40 000 square miles mainly off East Anglia the west of Scotland Norway & Denmark.
24th January 2001
STAFF ACTION WOULD HIT SCHOOLS ` HEADS
Schools will have to send pupils home for part of the week if teachers carry out industrial action over staffing shortages headteachers have warned. New guidelines drawn up by the National Association of Headteachers say teachers should cover vacancies. But teachers' union the NASUWT has said it will ballot its London members on plans for a city-wide "no cover" action The NAHT said this would "hit the wrong target" and would damage schools.
24th January 2001
BMW STAFF ACCEPT PAY DEAL TO BUILD MINI
Workers at BMW have voted to accept a new two-year pay deal. The staff at BMW's Cowley plant in Oxfordshire are to build the new Mini. The German firm had described the deal as the best in the UK motor industry for the past 12 months giving pay rises of at least 10% over two years. The deal involving more flexible shift patterns had previously been rejected by a narrow margin but union leaders urged workers to agree to it.
