Londonderry

Mouse found in bakery's treacle

BBC News (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

A bakery near Limavady in County Londonderry is closed on health grounds following a rodent infestation.

Re-trial for Derry killing case

BBC News (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

The jury in the trial of a Londonderry man accused of murdering his pregnant ex-girlfriend fails to reach a verdict.

All change

BBC NEWS | The Devenport Diaries (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009

It looks like we are soon going to get a couple of new MLAs. The SDLP's Carmel Hanna (who is currently sitting in a Health Committee meeting) is planning to retire. A selection meeting has been arranged for next month in South Belfast with Belfast councillor Bernie Kelly and former SDLP spin doctor and well known blogger Conall McDevitt thought to be in the running. In East Londonderry, as was confirmed...

Derry murder case jury still out

BBC News (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009

The jury considers its verdict in the trial of a man from Londonderry accused of murdering his pregnant ex-girlfriend last year.

Youth suffers cut in Derry attack

BBC News (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009

A 17-year-old youth suffers a gash to his head after being attacked on the Northland Road in Londonderry.

The Grasshopper

The Reverend Garibaldi McFlurry (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009

I've been going through some photos from the summer that hadn't been uploaded, and found this grasshopper from the grounds of the Bishop's Palace at Downhill, County Londonderry. We spotted him during a visit when we were on the north coast for New Horizon.

Road shut after serious accident

BBC News (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009

A road in Magherafelt, County Londonderry, is closed after a serious road accident.

New stores bring 75 jobs to Derry

BBC News (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009

Up to 75 new jobs are to be created in Londonderry after three new stores announce they are to open on the Waterside.

75 new jobs for NI retail park

ireland.com (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009

Seventy five jobs are to be created in Londonderry after three high street stores today signed up as new tenants in one of the city’s main shopping outlets.

Woman injured by security barrier

BBC News (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009

A woman is injured after a security barrier crashed through the windscreen of her car in Dungiven in County Londonderry.

Loyalist killer to fight conviction

SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009

News Letter 24 October 2009 LOYALIST killer Torrens Knight is to appeal against his conviction for assaulting two sisters in a bar room attack. The terrorist assassin faces being returned to jail to resume 12 life sentences for murders carried out during the Troubles after he was found guilty in Coleraine Magistrates Court on Thursday of beating up the women. Northern Ireland Secretary Shaun Woodward...

• NI killer to appeal assault conviction - ireland.com

FAIR to protest at IRA 'dinner dance'

SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009

News Letter 24 October 2009 VICTIMS' campaigner Willie Frazer has confirmed that he and other victims of republican violence will stage a silent protest at Londonderry's Guildhall against a "dinner dance" commemorating dead IRA members. Saturday's event has been organised by Sinn Fein-linked republican organisation the Derry Volunteers Commemorative Committee. Mr Frazer, who spearheads the...

Francie Brolly to retire

Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009

Francie Brolly the Sinn Fein MLA for East Londonderry has announced that he is to retire from the assembly before the end of the year. The 71 year old former teacher and folk singer from Dungiven was elected to Limavady Council in 2001 and the Assembly in 2003 and 2007. Mr Brolly said: “I have been proud to serve the great people of East Derry in all their diversity and I thank God for the privilege...

Greysteel killer guilty of attack

SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009

BBC 22 Oct 09 One of the men convicted of the 1993 Greysteel massacre has been convicted of assault and disorderly behaviour. Torrens Knight will be sentenced next month over the attack on two sisters at a bar in Coleraine on 30 May 2008. Notorious loyalist UFF 'Trick or Treat' killer Torrens Knight pictured at his first court appearance days after the infamous massacre at the Rising Sun Bar in Greysteel...

Belfast to bow out of UK City of Culture race, Londonderry goes on

Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009

Councillors at Belfast City Council have decided that they won’t, after all, be putting forward a bid to become the UK’s City of Culture in 2013 - despite it being the 400th anniversary of the signing of the city’s first charter by James I. The decision by the Development Committee has still to be ratified by the full Council. From the BBC report Ulster Unionist councillor Bob Stoker...