Price: 72p (ir 1.

05 euro) thursday, august 18, 2011

News Letter, Thursday, August 18, 2011 25

The pride of Northern Ireland

www.newsletter.co.uk

Since 1737

Advice and tips for school leavers SEE INSIDE

17/08/2011 18:48:31 \INN25 25 \01_PRODUCTION\PAGES\03_DONE

Davis targeting Europa League glory SEE SPORT

Man dies after crash
A MAN died in hospital last night after he was involved in a road crash in Co Londonderry yesterday. It is understood the victim was in a car travelling on the Curragh Road in Coleraine when the accident happened yesterday evening. John McPoland from the NI Ambulance Service said paramedics were tasked to the scene shortly after 5pm. He said the man who was trapped inside the vehicle was unconscious but was still breathing, before he was rushed to the Causeway Hospital. The accident occurred just 24 hours after Kevin McEvoy, 71, was killed in a threevehicle crash in Kilkeel. See page 5

rolling, rolling, rolling!

contestants from germany, South africa and the czech republic compete in a barrel-rolling task on the north antrim coast as part of Bushcamp the global final of the Bushmills irish Whiskey Make it 2 Bushmills competition See page 3
Picture: Paul Faith/Pa

Journalists put at risk

ATTEMPTS by the PSNI to gain access to media footage of riots are endangering journalists, the editors of Northern Irelands major print and broadcast media organisations have warned. In a joint letter, the editors claim the move by the PSNI risks journalists being viewed by rioters as quasi-police officers and those engaged in disorder attacking reporters and photographers in an attempt to prevent evidence being passed to the police. See page 6

Familys appeal after farm death

BY Michael Mcglade and erin hutcheon
newsdesk@newsletter.co.uk

orde aims for top job

FORMER PSNI chief constable Sir Hugh Orde has sent a deadline day application to become Scotland Yards next commissioner. Sir Hugh, president of the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), confirmed his candidacy just hours before the job advert expired at noon yesterday, a source said. Sir Hugh missed out on the job in 2009. See page 7

THE family of a Co Tyrone farmer killed while trying to move a large bale of hay say they hope lessons will be learned from the tragedy.

It is thought that 59-year-old Christopher Irwin Roulston from Strabane lost his balance and fell a distance of almost 9ft to his death on March 7 this year. His widow Kathleen Roulston gave evidence to Londonderry Coroners Court yesterday of how her husband used to rock bales

of hay to allow him to move them from the top of the hay stack as he needed them. Details of the fatal accident involving the modern bales weighing almost 10 times the weight of traditional square bales emerged as farmers across the province enter one of the busiest

periods of the harvest season. The inquest heard how Mrs Roulston had spoken to her husband known as Irwin shortly after 1pm on the day of his death and had returned home several hours later to find his body lying by the shed in a pool of blood. turn to page 12

Electricity bills set to increase by 20 per cent

SEE PAGE 4