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Secretary of State appoints new member to parades commission for Northern Ireland
The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, the Right Honourable Brandon Lewis CBE MP, has announced the appointment of William Gamble to the Parades Commission for Northern Ireland.
Mr Gamble will take up the appointment with effect from 1 February 2021.
Mr Gamble now works as a Strategy Consultant following his retirement as a senior civil servant in the Northern Ireland Civil Service. During his civil service career, he held roles including Head of Good Relations & Reconciliation Division in the Office of the First and deputy First Minister, and Director of Regional Planning and Transportation in the Department for Regional Development.
Belfast grammar schools adds pupils P5 test results to admission criteria
And they make no mention of children in receipt of free school meals
Updated
For some children worries about the Transfer Test can be too much to cope with
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25 January 2021
The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, the Right Honourable Brandon Lewis MP has announced the reappointment of Sinead Burns as a Civil Service Commissioner for Northern Ireland.
The appointment has been renewed for a period of five years until 7 March 2026.
Sinead Burns is an Occupational Psychologist and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development with over 20 years’ experience in Human Resource Management gained within the public, private and charitable sectors. She served as Commissioner for Judicial Appointments in Northern Ireland from 2005 until 2013.
She is currently a Lay Magistrate and a Member of Council for the General Optical Council, which regulates optical professionals and businesses throughout the UK. She is also a Fitness to Practice Panel Member with the Health & Care Professions Council.
When a friend dies, it is often the small things one misses; the details rather than the big picture. In the days since Norman Houston died, many people, often those in public life whose work brought them into close contact with him in Washington, DC, have rightly paid tribute and expressed sympathy online.
The artist Colin Davidson, whose large-scale portraits hang in the Lyric Theatre, summed it up in his Twitter tribute, writing of Norman s empathy, selflessness, decency, warmth, professionalism, loyalty, inclusivity, positivity, balance as the qualities than made him unique in this world .
For me, one of Norman s greatest qualities was that he could make links and see connections that few others could so readily identify.