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Private contractor had to grit icy roads to allow a funeral in Derry to proceed Councillors criticise current management of road-gritting procedures in the local council area Reporter: '); Concerns have been raised about road-gritting services in Derry. A meeting of Derry City and Strabane District Council's Environment and Regeneration Committee was yesterday told that a private contractor had to recently be brought in to grit the roads around a local church to allow a funeral to take place. Normally, the gritting of roads during icy periods is the responsibility of the Roads Service. Howev...

BBC News By David Wilson image copyrightImage Courtesy of the National Library of Ireland When the Government of Ireland Act was granted Royal Assent in December 1920, it came at the end of a troubled year in Londonderry. Six months earlier in the city, a single week of violence had claimed 20 lives. It was the "first upsurge of sectarianism", according to Ulster University historian Dr Adrian Grant. That week in June, he said, was "a hugely significant but largely forgotten time". image copyrightThe Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images image captionMuch of the violence occurred in t...

Pupils at a Derry primary school reach out to help others at Christmas time Long Tower kids share gifts with local organisations Pupils from Long Tower PS hand over gifts to staff from Alexander House. Reporter: ');  '); Children at a Derry primary school have brought much needed Christmas joy to people in their local community through some special presents. The pupils from Long Tower PS visited Alexander House sheltered accommodation and the House in the Wells homeless shelter (below) for men with addiction issues every year to sing carols. But this year, due to the ongoing coronavirus res...

Family of teenager who died this year gather at Derry's City Cemetery to remember him at Christmas Lee Gurney died in April at the age of just 17 Lee Gurney died earlier this year at the age of just 17. Reporter: ');  '); A Derry woman whose beloved 17-year-old son died suddenly earlier this year today speaks of her grief publicly in the hope it will help other bereaved families this Christmas. Jacqueline Gurney's eldest child Lee collapsed with a thoracic aortic aneurysm on April 20 and died at Altnagelvin Hospital later that day. The much-loved teenager was studying for his A-levels and w...