Derry

Derry personal debt hits £7m

BBC News (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

Derry policewoman wins 'top cop'

BBC News (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009

A Londonderry policewoman wins a top international award.