A SEAT belt would certainly have saved the life of young mother, killed as her car overturned into a ditch on the motorway, police said yesterday
Maria Madritou died yesterday morning after losing control of her car as she joined the Limassol-Nicosia motorway.
She was not wearing a seat belt and had apparently been driving at high speed.
THE Competition Commission is investigating claims that milk prices are being fixed at the expense of the public.
Newly-appointed CPC boss Panayiotis Kallis received a letter from the Commerce Ministry on Thursday, requesting an investigation into all the factors that contribute to the price of milk.
A PAPHOS woman yesterday accused police of doing nothing as youths raced their bikes along residential streets until late into the night.
STUDENTS graduating from any one of the island’s three new private universities will enjoy the same rights as graduates of any other state or foreign university.
“TO head an institution such as this, one must be both an academic and a general manager.”
That was the verdict of the Executive Dean of Intercollege, Nicos Peristianis, who added that it is a difficult position, “as one has to combine a multitude of skills and understand many different fields.
A MAN was yesterday jailed for seven years after dowsing his ex-girlfriend in petrol and setting her alight.
Andreas Costa Andreou, 38 from Larnaca, had pleaded guilty to a specific charge of causing grievous bodily harm, which under the penal code can carry a life sentence.
CYPRUS Airways (CY) has launched an online check-in facility where passengers can simply choose their seat and print off their boarding pass, and, if travelling with only hand luggage, can proceed straight to the departure area.
AN explosion yesterday occurred at the headquarters of socialist party EDEK in Nicosia.
Spokesman Demetris Papadakis explained that a fire seems to have been set deliberately, as several gas canisters were found at the scene.
The fire is believed to have broken out at 3.20am in a room used as a press centre, which sustained extensive damage.
THE SHACOLAS Group yesterday hit back at accusations by Orphanides Ltd regarding the opening hours of the Mall of Cyprus.
THE TURKISH ban on Cypriot ships and its refusal to apply EU the customs union protocol will be among the discussions that shipping bosses will have with EU Transport Commissioner Jacques Barrot during the Maritime Cyprus conference later this month.
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