Here’s something to get your claws into – the chance to meet up with Derry City mascot R Mucker.
The Derry News, in conjunction with Derry City Football Club are offering one lucky reader the chance of a lifetime with a competition to meet the stripy one at the Brandywell.
By Gary Ferry gary@derrynews.net
For weeks the question [...]
Taxi drivers in the city are forking out over £20 a day in fuel costs alone, the Derry News has learned.
By Alan Healy
alan@derrynews.net
The shock figure was revealed after Friday’s meeting of local taxi proprietors in Creggan’s Rath Mór Centre, with fare increases now seeming inevitable across the city in order to meet the spiralling cost [...]
Thousands of elderly people and the worst off in Derry are facing unprecedented hardship as electricity prices are set to rise, it was revealed yesterday.
By Eamonn Houston eamonn@derrynews.net
This follows recent price hikes for gas, food, heating oil and fuel.
It emerged yesterday that electricity bills will jump 14% at the beginning of July with a [...]
Derry City Council have thrown their weight behind a campaign to secure funding for an under threat community group after a horde of protestors thronged into Guildhall chambers on Tuesday afternoon.
By Alan Healy
alan@derrynews.net
Both staff and clients of the Good Morning Galliagh group and several community groups form across the city assembled outside the Guildhall with [...]
A new national appeal for information about the brutal murder of a County Derry farmer four years ago will be made on TV next week.
By Ciaran O’Neill
editor@derrypost.com
The County Derry Post has learned that an appeal for information about the murder of Patrick Devine will be made on the BBC’s Crimewatch programme next Monday.
Mr Devine was [...]
One Derry man has found a novel way of beating the credit crunch and spiralling fuel costs - by running his car on water!
By Eamonn Houston eamonn@derrynews.net
Aiden Cusack is one of a growing number of people across the world to embrace a technology that dates back to the 1800s and can half the cost of [...]
A rally will take place in the Guildhall Square tomorrow against proposed cuts to funding for organisations in Derry’s community and voluntary sector.
By Alan Healy
alan@derrynews.net
There have been claims that the proposed cuts in funding by the Department of Social Development (DSD) could lead to significant job losses in the city.
However, in a new twist to [...]
A group of enterprising students have organised a glamorous fashion show to raise funds for a charity bike ride later this year.
By Marianne Craig marianne@derrynews.net
Michelle Smith and Pamela Daly from Magee decided to hold the ‘Fit 4 Fashion’ show to fund the ‘Bike 2 Belarus’ campaign which will see 23 students undertake a 100 mile [...]
Residents in Fergleen area of Galliagh have expressed their relief after two derelict homes which had become a hive of anti-social activity in recent months were finally torn down.
By Alan Healy
alan@derrynews.net
The Derry News reported last week how the North West Housing Association – who own both the properties at 44 and 45 Fergleen Park – [...]
People were evacuated from their homes after diesel oozed from an oil tanker which overturned on the outskirts of Newbuildings on Friday.
By Eamonn Houston eamonn@derrynews.net
The tanker lorry overturned on a stretch of the Victoria Road linking Newbuildings and Magheramason at around 6.30am.
Morning traffic chaos ensued after the road was closed with diversions along the [...]
