Police re-issue appeal for missing man originally from Derry who was last...
Police have reissued an appeal for 23-year-old Robert Thomas Payne who has been missing from the Coleraine area for the past 10 days. Robert, who is from the Derry area but has been living in...
View ArticleNew partnership improving safety on rivers in the North West
PICTURED ABOVE: Niall Doran, City Centre Initiative, Sandra Holden, Derry & Strabane PCSP and Stephen Twells, Foyle Search & Rescue, pictured with some of the new life-saving equipment located...
View ArticleREVIEW: Snow Patrol at the Millennium Forum, Derry, Friday May 11
Why You Don’t Give In Reviewed by Michael Harrison It can be a little daunting to go and watch a group debuting their first album in seven years. Particularly when the chief songwriter has been...
View ArticleDurkan Calls for More Ambitious Future Planning for Health Service Staff
The SDLP Health Spokesperson Mark H Durkan MLA today welcomed the investment of £15million that will go towards workforce planning in the health service, including the recruitment of almost 100 extra...
View ArticleDuffy to address rally tomorrow to call for an end to 'indiscriminate...
Sinn Féin Councillor Sandra Duffy has called on the international community to take action to halt Israel’s indiscriminate slaughter of Palestinians. The party's group leader on Derry council was...
View ArticleEnter the Derry Age Concern annual gardening competition
It’s that time of year where the green fingered can get back out into the garden, patio or vegetable patch again. It is also time to consider entering the Age Concern Derry Annual Gardening Competition...
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Summer Charity Flower Demonstration at the Everglades on behalf of Derry charity
On Wednesday night The Everglades Hotel will become a summer floral paradise as local award winning florist John Paul will hold a charity flower demonstration in support of “The Patrick Friel Curran...
View ArticleMagee on Music: Old School/New School
This week the Derry News music correspondent KEVIN MAGEE listens to a new EP from an on-the-up Derry 'noise pop band' about to tour the country - and chats to an already-at-the-top legend in his own...
View ArticleWestern Trust apologises at inquest into death of 83-year-old woman found on...
The Western Trust have apologised to the family of an 83-year-old woman who suffered an undiagnosed hip fracture and died in Altnagelvin Hospital after being found on the floor by her bed. The apology...
View ArticleCharity night to be held this week to raise funds for project set up in...
A charity night will be held in the city this week for a project which helps grieving families with the cost of repatriating loved ones who have died while abroad. The Patrick Friel Curran Project was...
View ArticleHightown incinerator judgement calls decisions made during political impasse...
A High Court Judge ruled yesterday that approving a new £240m waste incinerator on the outskirts of north Belfast without a minister being in post was unlawful. Welcoming the ruling, former...
View ArticleDerry man hurled sectarian abuse at police while they were investigating...
A 36-year-old man who became aggressive and sectarian towards police who were investigating shots being fired into his house has been given a four-month suspended sentence. Mark Brady, of Racecourse...
View ArticlePolice release CCTV images of men they wish to speak to over an assault at...
The PSNI has released images of a number of men they wish to speak to in relation to an assault at the Foyle Street bus depot in Derry. The images were released as part of ‘Operation Exposure’, where...
View Article'This is the next generation of dementia care' - Praise as new 11-bed unit...
A new 11 bed residential dementia unit has been heralded as paving the way for the next step in the delivery of care for those afflicted by the disease. The dedicated dementia unit at the Four Seasons...
View ArticleDerry groups that work with children and young people encouraged to apply for...
A Derry philanthropic group is calling for applications to its small grants scheme, which provides financial support of up to £500 to local groups that work with children and young people in the local...
View ArticleDerry retains its 'Purple Flag' status for the quality of its night-time...
The Association of Town and City Management has awarded Derry Purple Flag status for the eighth year in a row, it emerged today. The city has been awarded the prestigious accolade, that recognises town...
View ArticlePolice in Derry urged to tackle 'scourge' of loyalist paramilitaries after...
THE PSNI have been called on to make a ‘sustained effort’ to address the actions of loyalist paramilitaries in Derry following a vicious weekend attack in the Waterside area. It comes after three men...
View ArticleDerry Girls star joins hundreds of people to help raise suicide awareness at...
THE Derry Girls star Jamie-Lee O’Donnell was one of hundreds of people who gathered at the riverbank in the early hours of Saturday morning for a fundraising walk. The Darkness into Light walk saw...
View Article'Distasteful' sign erected outside Derry cemetery to be removed after refusal...
A sign which was placed outside a cemetery in Derry advertising a memorial business will now have to be removed after it failed to get planning permission. The sign was erected at a fence in front of...
View ArticleLocal passengers will have to keep 'holding it in' after Translink confirm no...
Translink has confirmed there are no future plans to install toilets on its 212 Derry to Belfast service. The 212 is used by hundreds of commuters and students on a weekly basis, and runs directly from...
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