http://uuptoday.org/newsroom Tue, 06 May 2008 13:01:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [slink ing=robertcoulter-big.jpg]Rev Dr Robert Coulter, the Ulster Unionist Party Assembly member for North Antrim and UUP Stormont Commissioner, has called on the Environment Minister to introduce compulsory electronic tagging of dangerous wild animals after it emerged more than a quarter of all licences for such animals in Northern Ireland are ... http://uuptoday.org/newsroom/2008/05/06/coulter-urges-tagging-of-dangerous-wild-animals/ [slink img=robertcoulter-big.jpg]Rev Dr Robert Coulter, the Ulster Unionist Party Assembly member for North Antrim and UUP Stormont Commissioner, has welcomed the latest moves by Translink to enhance the rail service between Ballymena and Coleraine on the Londonderry line. Assemblyman Dr Coulter said this would be an “invaluable ... http://uuptoday.org/newsroom/2008/05/02/coulter-welcomes-train-track-moves/ [slink img=robertcoulter-big.jpg]Rev Dr Robert Coulter MLA, Ulster Unionist Commissioner at Stormont, today has called for national lottery money to be used to build alternative energy schemes in Northern Ireland . The North Antrim Assembly member added: “In Scotland , the North Harris Trust (NHT) has received £900,000 which ... http://uuptoday.org/newsroom/2008/04/28/coulter-wants-alternative-funding-for-alternative-energy/ [slink img=basilmccrea-big.jpg]TODAY more than 30 grammar schools in Northern Ireland have announced that they are to set up a company to manage an independent test to replace the 11-Plus. They have claimed their reasons behind this decision have been the failure of the Department of Education and specifically Caitriona Ruane ... http://uuptoday.org/newsroom/2008/04/24/schools-should-not-have-been-forced-into-this-position-mccrea/ [slink img=lesliecree-big.jpg]LESLIE Cree, Ulster Unionist spokesperson for DETI this morning expressed his concern following an announcement by Phoenix that they will be increasing the price of the natural gas by 28 per cent on May 1st this year. Commenting on the issue the North Down MLA said that he was alarmed ... http://uuptoday.org/newsroom/2008/04/24/energy-crisis-has-been-creeping-up-%e2%80%93-cree/ [slink img=tomeliott-big.jpg]Ulster Unionist MLA Tom Elliott today welcomed the visit of British Army Chief Sir Richard Dannett to Northern Ireland to launch a £2 million a year scheme for former Ulster Defence Regiment and Royal Irish Regiment Soldiers. The Fermanagh and South Tyrone MLA said: "The £2 million a year ... http://uuptoday.org/newsroom/2008/04/22/udrrir-welfare-plan-earned-through-the-ultimate-sacrifices-of-many-%e2%80%93-elliott/ [slink img=robertcoulter-big.jpg]Rev Dr Robert Coulter, the Ulster Unionist Party Assembly member for North Antrim and UUP Stormont Commissioner, has called on tighter checks on dangerous wild animals after it emerged more than a quarter of all such licences in Northern Ireland are located in the constituency. Assemblyman Dr ... http://uuptoday.org/newsroom/2008/04/18/coulter-urges-tighter-wild-animals-licences/ [slink img=basilmccrea-big.jpg]Ulster Unionist spokesperson for education Basil McCrea MLA has reacted angrily to a leaked Sinn Fein document which has exposed the Educations Minister Caitriona Ruane’s intention to bullying Northern Ireland grammar schools into submission. In a statement he said: “This internal Sinn Fein paper demonstrates that the promises supposedly ... http://uuptoday.org/newsroom/2008/04/16/dup-and-sinn-fein-con-parents-mccrea/ [slink img=robertcoulter-big.jpg]Rev Dr Robert Coulter, the Ulster Unionist Party Assembly member for North Antrim and UUP Stormont Commissioner, has branded the recent attack on fire fighters and their appliance in Ballymena’s Dunclug estate as “mindless thuggery of the lowest kind”. Assemblyman Dr Coulter, who served three terms as ... http://uuptoday.org/newsroom/2008/04/14/coulter-condemns-attack-on-fire-crew/ [slink img=roybeggs-big.jpg]Roy Beggs MLA, Ulster Unionist Spokesperson on the Public Accounts Committee has welcomed the inclusion of Northern Ireland into the National Fraud Initiative as a result of its inclusion in the Serious Crimes Bill and which can into effect on 6th April 2008. In a Statement Mr. Beggs said, “I ... http://uuptoday.org/newsroom/2008/04/09/beggs-welcomes-northern-ireland%e2%80%99s-inclusion-into-the-national-fraud-initiative/