CYPRUS is in no danger of a foot and mouth outbreak, European Lab results showed yesterday.
Farmers had anxiously been awaiting the outcome of UK tests on a herd of sheep from Dromolaxia that had initially tested positive to the disease last Thursday. Yesterday, they breathed a sigh of relief when the London-based lab confirmed that there was after all no trace of foot and mouth.
THE danger of strike action by Cyprus Airways’ (CY) biggest union CYNIKA has been averted, at least until next week, following a meeting yesterday to sort out a dispute over outsourcing.
THE Turkish Cypriot side said yesterday it was ready to open the Ledra Street crossing point and was just waiting for the Greek Cypriot side’s approval.
Hasan Ercak?ca, spokesman for Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat, said the crossing was ready to be opened immediately.
AKEL yesterday accepted part of the blame for the positions of President Tassos Papadopoulos on the Annan plan and 2004 referendum, saying the party had had no option at the time.
THE Justice Minister was yesterday accused of scorning Parliament after refusing to answer questions regarding a prison break earlier this month.
A MAN from Dhali village in Nicosia is in police custody on suspicion of setting fire to his landlord’s car.
According to police investigators, the 26-year-old set his landlord’s Mercedes alight after somebody had poisoned his dog. The suspect and his landlord had argued in the past over the dog, which he kept in the apartment he was renting.
A CONVICT was yesterday handed an extra 18-month jail sentence after pleading guilty to break in to a house in Nicosia in August 2005.
The man is already serving a two-year sentence for burglary and assaulting a police officer, for which he was convicted in 2006.
LIMASSOL City Council has formally approved the budget for 2008, which provides for over £10 million worth of spending on development works.
A SCHOOL pupil took his election campaign a little too seriously after advertising himself on a main road billboard.
Ambitious Pascal School pupil Alexandros Papadopoulos decided to get his name into the open by splashing out on an advert which he placed on a billboard just shy of the Lakatamia area in Nicosia.
THE SECOND largest bank in Greece yesterday announced that it would be opening four branches on the island.
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