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Police, SF Colr. Sandra Duffy and Galliagh Community Response yesterday made separate appeals for people to be vigilant and to look out for the wallet after the robbery at 2pm on Saturday at a bus stop in the Fergleen Park area of the city.
The wallet contained photos and religious material of great sentimental value to the owner. Some reports however suggest that while the wallet was recovered, some of the items inside it were found to be damaged or destroyed.
A PSNI spokesperson confirmed this afternoon: Yesterday afternoon an elderly female had her wallet stolen and was pushed to the ground whilst waiting for a bus on the Moss Road.
Councillors in Derry becoming a laughing stock because of the length of meetings, claims DUP Alderman
Row kicks off over new proposals aimed at reducing how long council meetings last
Council meetings in Derry are regularly lasting eight hours or more.
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Independent councillors and representatives from smaller parties have raised concerns about new proposals in relation to the running of Derry City and Strabane District Council meetings.
A raft of new measures have been put forward in a bid to reduce the length of council meetings.
At present, the monthly meetings of the council regularly last for more than eight hours.
Councillors want to see audit carried out into Covid-19 support programmes
Access to Food and Financial Inclusion programmes launched to help those facing hardship
Derry City and Strabane District Council s headquarters at Strand Road.
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Councillors today discussed calls for an audit into two programmes supported by Derry City and Strabane District to help people impacted by the pandemic.
The Access to Food Programme and the Financial Inclusion Programme were both launched in recent months in response to the hardship being faced by many local people.
For the Access to Food Programme, the local council received £220,000 from the Department of Communities to help alleviate food poverty.
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Derry s council to write a letter highlighting its opposition to a new asphalt plant close to the border in Donegal
Company wants to build the plant on a site in Burnfoot
Derry City and Strabane District Council s headquarters at Strand Road.
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Councillors in Derry have agreed to write to Donegal County Council to highlight their opposition to plans to build an asphalt plant close to the border.
A company has submitted an application to build the plant in Burnfoot.
The matter was discussed today at a meeting of Derry City and Strabane District Council s Environment and Regeneration Committee.