A business opportunity of Olympic proportions is in danger of being missed by the local enterprise agencies.

Robin Newton, east Belfast MLA and Belfast City councillor, is calling for a focus on potential entrepreneurial opportunities flowing from the forthcoming Olympics, scheduled for London in 2012.

At a meeting held yesterday between DUP MLA, Robin Newton and senior Invest Northern Ireland officials, there was a recognition that more effective means was necessary to encourage and engage the business community in what has been described at the ‘life blood’ of industrial innovation, Research & Development (R&D).

East Belfast DUP Councillor Robin Newton MLA said, the attempted murder of a 39 year old man in the east of the city by a 16 year old youth again raises questions about the current knife carrying culture.

East Belfast MLA and DUP economy spokesperson Robin Newton said the economic well being of the east of the city must be a major priority of NIO Minister David Hanson as he sets about fully engaging with the unionist community.

East Belfast DUP Councillor and MLA Robin Newton has expressed concerns about the increasing number of NIHE applications for social housing in the east of the city.

East Belfast DUP Councillor and MLA Robin Newton has expressed his alarm at the growing level of hideous graffiti in Belfast City Council’s Belmont Park.  

East Belfast DUP Councillor Chairman Belfast District Policing Partnership Robin Newton has described the Home Secretary’s financial awards to drug addicts who were weaned off heroin by the “cold turkey” method as outrageous.

East Belfast DUP MLA, Cllr Robin Newton has called for a coherent strategy to deal with what could potentially become another worrying division within our city.

East Belfast DUP Councillor and MLA Robin Newton has expressed his alarm as the PSNI consult on the future of the Willowfield and Mountpottinger police stations.

Robin Newton east Belfast DUP Councillor and Assembly candidate in welcoming the news of a new hi-tech police training college has called for the Garnerville campus not to be left to become derelict.