A student at North West Regional College has been given a top Learner Award by the Northern Council for Further Education (NCFE).

The Mayor of Mid and East Antrim has chosen the Community Rescue Service (CRS) – Central District, as her official charity for this year.
Mayor Cllr Maureen Morrow said: “I am really pleased and proud to be supporting such an invaluable cause during my term. The CRS is a search and rescue organisation operated by local volunteers with the Central District covering Mid and East Antrim. These individuals give up their spare time to provide a service to those in difficulty.Their work involves numerous emergency situations and they should be given recognition for their hard work and dedication in providing this service for people of our borough.”

The Down Royal Summer Festival of Racing will be the highlight of the year for racing aficionados, socialites and fashionistas alike as Down Royal once again hosts an unprecedented weekend of entertainment on 21 and 22 June.

Twenty graduates are being offered the opportunity to join global innovation and transformation consultancy PA Consulting’s first Digital Engineering Assured Skills Academy in Belfast. Successful applicants to the academy will gain the skills they need to become a digital engineer. Funded by the Department for the Economy, the Assured Skills Academy offers a nine-week training course at Belfast Met, leading to an interview with PA Consulting upon successful completion.

More than 3,000 of the world’s tech community have gathered together in a show of strength on the first day of Digital DNA 2019, powered by PwC, in Belfast. Held in St George’s market, the two-day event attracted a record crowd who heard from experts from the cream of the global digital world, as well as panel sessions exploring the challenges and opportunities to be found in everything from starting a tech business to managing its reputation.

John McKee Solicitors hosted a client event to help raise awareness of the remarkable work its charity partner, International Justice Mission (IJM), carries out around the world in its mission to eliminate the slave trade. #legalservices #legalupdates #lawfirms #lawyerlife
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Corporate law firm A&L Goodbody (ALG) has announced the appointment of three new partners at its Belfast office.

Mark Stockdale and David Rowan have both been promoted to partner in the Corporate and M&A department, while Sam Corbett has been made a partner in the Restructuring and Insolvency team, bringing the total number of partners at the firm’s Belfast office to 16.

Connect, the Westminster-based public affairs and planning communications specialist, has today joined with Stratagem, Northern Ireland’s largest public affairs agency. While technically an acquisition, it is positioned as a merger, with Stratagem continuing to operate with its own highly successful brand.

Packaging company Huhtamaki is to create 20 jobs at its Lurgan site to work on the first stages of a ground-breaking new project producing recyclable ready meal trays which will help reduce the amount of plastic sent to landfill globally.

The jobs, which include cell coordinators, production operatives, and maintenance technicians, are a key part of the innovative Finnish-owned company’s investment of £7m, with funding support by the BBI JU Horizon 2020 program, in a new plant which will make the world’s first home compostable oven and microwave safe fibre-based trays in the UK for, amongst others Waitrose.