Londonderry

Derry personal debt hits £7m

BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday

Personal debt in Londonderry reaches £7m, according to the latest figures from the Citizen's Advice Bureau.

Leonard to join SF assembly team

BBC News (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

Coleraine councillor Billy Leonard is selected by Sinn Fein colleagues to become an assembly member in East Londonderry.

Ex RUC man becomes Sinn Fein MLA

BBC News (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

Coleraine councillor Billy Leonard is selected by Sinn Fein to become an assembly member in East Londonderry.

Murder Suicide in Derry Today

Londonderry NH net (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009

Just four weeks after the Murder Suicides in Londonderry and Manchester, New Hampshire Derry police found what the NH Attorney General is describing as a murder suicide. New Hampshire Attorney General Michael A. Delaney and Derry Police Chief Edward B. Garone announce that an investigation is ongoing into an apparent murder/suicide in Derry, New Hampshire. On Sunday, [...]

• New Hampshire couple in 70s shot dead, likely murder-suicide - Boston Herald

Alice Zinsmeister of Derry formally of Londonderry

Londonderry NH net (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009

Alice Ruth Zinsmeister (nee Taylor) passed away in her sleep on November 14, 2009. She lived a full life of 93 years. A second-generation American of English descent, Alice was born on June 19, 1916 to Helen and Stephen A. Taylor of City Island, New York. Alice attended school and worked most of her life [...]

Derry dissident goes on trial

BBC News (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009

A dissident republican goes on trial charged with assaulting police in Londonderry two years ago.

Quackers! Vanessa Kelly fined for feeding ducks.

The Lone Voice (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009

Not so much justice as a bizarre comedy skit. A mother has been fined £75 for feeding ducks in a Black Country park with her toddler son. Vanessa Kelly had taken her 17-month-old son Harry on his weekly visit to feed ducks in Smethwick Hall Park when she was approached by a council warden. She put away the bread as soon as the warden told her duck feeding was not allowed in the park, in Londonderry...

• Fined £75 for feeding ducks - Express & Star

When will the walls in Belfast come down? ,

Open Democracy (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009

As Ian Parsley noted at OurKingdom last year, the wall may be down in Berlin, but there are still plenty of them in Belfast. The BBC this week highlighted the work of some of the people who are trying to change that. Among them is Tony Macaulay, who outlined the scale of the problem at a recent talk in London. There are 88 barriers, they arent all walls. There are 88 what we would call interface barriers...

Streets closed in Derry alert

BBC News (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009

Police are dealing with a suspicious object in 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.