People

Staff and students at the North West Regional College (NWRC) have produced their first ever online music video to round off another hugely successful year.

Derry householders who have received out-of-the-blue ground rent bills have been told only to pay the last six years in arrears.

Derry childminder Teresa McKeever has urged more people to consider the job after a huge decrease in registered day care specialists locally.

NSPCC Foyle and Childline have recently merged bases in the NW and are now located at one site in Derry city centre. In this article, NSPCC Foyle service manager, Sinéad Hegarty, outlines her work dealing with children who have been sexually abused and how she helps them on their journey to recovery.

A fundraising campaign has been launched to help fund accommodation and costs in Dublin for the family of a young man recently diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.

There were more than eight reports of domestic abuse per day in the Derry and Strabane District Council area between July 2018 and June this year.

The Foyle Folk Club held an event in memory of the late singer, songwriter and broadcaster Eamon Friel.

A three-year-old Derry boy who has battled cancer officially launched the Christmas window display of the Cancer Research shop in the city.

A local rail campaigner has welcomed a ‘commitment’ by Derry City and Strabane District Council to conduct a feasibility study into extending the rail network.

A local MLA has expressed disappointment that the Department for Infrastructure ‘do not currently have the funding to deliver’ the long-awaited A2 Buncrana Road Improvement Scheme.

Over 400 local pupils celebrated the installation of the Peace Pledge Tree in Ebrington Square at a special event last week.