Leading NI security expert Frank Cullen welcomed the imminent introduction of new legislation to clean up the security industry in the province.
Come 1 December 2009, all those working in designated sectors of the private security industry in Northern Ireland will need to hold a Security Industry Authority (SIA) licence. The SIA estimates that over 8000 [...]

Two international confectionery firms are considering a joint bid for Cadbury that could forestall a hostile takeover by Kraft Foods, reports say.
US-based Hershey and the Italian firm Ferrero are reported to have held preliminary talks on the plan.
Cadbury has declined to comment. Earlier this month it rejected Kraft’s proposed offer worth £9.8bn.
The Wall Street Journal [...]

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Iraq’s oil ministry has signed an initial agreement with a consortium led by the Italian firm, ENI, to develop the Zubair oilfield in southern Iraq.
The deal, which needs cabinet approval, calls for the group to extract 200,000 barrels of oil a day, rising to 1.1 million a day within seven years.
The project could be Iraq’s [...]

Debt management company Gregory Pennington have said that now is a more important time than ever for consumers to get their finances [...]

Gaps in policy may have led to separate incidents at Verizon Wireless and the Department of Defense, industry observers say…
Security breaches have struck both President-elect Barack Obama and the Pentagon, with both cases pointing to holes in policy, tracking and enforcement, according to observers.
In Obama’s case, Verizon Wireless employees stole a peek at his old [...]