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Twenty one per cent of children (4,460) in the Western Trust were known to social services as children in need at the end of March - the highest proportion in the North.

21% of children in WHSCT known to social services – highest rate in the North

Siobhan Casey

Siobhan Casey describes historic ageing milestone as ‘wake up call’

Professor Siobhan O'Neill, Professor of Mental Health Sciences at Ulster University, and Northern Ireland’s Mental Health Champion

New study shows peacebuilding fosters greater empathy, positive relationships

The final meeting of the NI Rare Disease Partnership (NIRDP). Pictured are members of the group with Sandra Campbell, chairperson (standing in red) & Foyle MLAs, Ciara Ferguson (Sinn Féin) & Mark H Durkan (SDLP). (Photo - Tom Heaney, nwpresspics)

Rare Disease Partnership forced to close due to lack of funding

Infrastructure Minister Liz Kimmins.

People urged to get 'flood aware' amid El Niño

Rev. David Latimer

Rev. David Latimer among signatories of letter supporting Garvaghy Rd residents

Breandán Mac Cionnaith of the Garvaghy Road Residents' Coalition speaks to people outside the High Court at the weekend. (Photo by Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)

Eastwood urges Labour to back Garvaghy Road residents

Lough Foyle. (Photo by Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)

Foyle territorial dispute could impact marine protection legislation

Westside Cowboy

Derry needs ‘Other Voices’

Delegates taking part in one of the SEEDS training sessions at last week's event. (Photos: Jim McCafferty Photography) : .

IN PICTURES: Health for Life SEEDS gathering in Derry

The Mayor of Derry City and Strabane District Council, Grace Uí Niallais pictured with delegates from DEEDS City and District Partnership at Tuesday's first gathering of Health for Life’s new SEEDS Dementia Support Programme in the Healthy Living Centre, Creggan. Included is National Lottery representative Tommy Carlin and the core DEEDS team. (Photos: JIm McCafferty Photography)

Health for Life SEEDS gathering after £4.9m awarded to deliver dementia support

Eight in 10 people in the UK use their TV for streaming films and TV shows

Ad Feature North-South divide revealed in TV and social media habits

Lough Foyle. (Photo by Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)

Foyle territorial dispute could impact marine protection legislation

The population of Derry and Strabane grew by 276 people last year due largely to births outnumbering deaths.

Derry/Strabane population grows by 276 as city experiences net migration out

Donall Henderson, CEO of the Foyle Hospice, on right, with Health Minister Robbie Butler, Chair of the Stormont Health Committee Philip McGuigan and colleagues from the Hospice Alliance Northern Ireland

Foyle Hospice’s Donall Henderson warns we face a ‘palliative care challenge'

Professor Siobhan O'Neill Professor of Mental Health Sciences at the University of Ulster's Psychology Research Institute. Picture Martin McKeown. Inpresspics.com. 16.4.14

Prof. Siobhán O’Neill: 'Significantly higher’ suicidal ideation rate a concern
At a special meeting of Derry City and Strabane District Council, Mental Health Champion Professor Siobhán O'Neill revealed that the Western Trust area experiences the highest levels of suicide ideation and self-harm in the North.
Jack Tibbetts

The Mayor of Derry and Strabane Grace Uí Niallais and Western Trust Chief Executive Karen Hargan with the mobile research team in Guildhall Square.

Mobile research service launched as WHSCT aims to tackle health inequalities

Newly opened Men's Action Network premises in Derry.

Zero progress on male safe accommodation in Assembly despite repeated calls

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Authorities and Government reluctant to take on paramilitary groups

This frame grab taken from AFPTV video footage on July 12, 2026 shows a ship sailing near the Strait of Hormuz off the eastern coast of the United Arab Emirates at Khor Fakkan. (Photo by AFPTV / AFP via Getty Images).

Middle East conflict sparks 8.98% winter price hike for Derry gas customers

Gregory Campbell has described claims unemployment would rise and house prices would decline by almost a third as a result of Brexit as ‘scaremongering headlines’.

Gregory Campbell: Brexit joblessness & house price headlines ‘scaremongering’

Selina Horshi says VAT cut is ‘sledgehammer’ needed to support industry

Manufacturing NI Chief Executive Stephen Kelly suffered a heart attack while on a short break in Alicante with his wife Carol to celebrate their silver wedding anniversary. Stephen shared his story of living with cardiovascular disease as part of British Heart Foundation’s ‘Keep Us Beating’ campaign. He is pictured on an iconic BHF red bench at Titanic Belfast.

Stephen Kelly speaks of heart attack to raise awareness of cardiac illness

Guildhall, Derry

Protest in Derry to oppose AI data centres

Depaul’s Housing First offering saw ‘significant growth’ last year through services in Derry ‘reinforcing housing as a fundamental human right’, a new report has shown.

Housing First service reports expansion in Derry

Ulster University Vice-Chancellor Paul Bartholomew

UU boss Paul Bartholomew claims low fees means North is being shortchanged

Colum Eastwood

Eastwood: Only way to save health service is via more cross-border cooperation
Colum Eastwood has said he believes the only way to save the health service in the North is through greater cross-border cooperation.
Kevin Mullan

11 Downing Street. (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP via Getty Images)

DERRY JOURNAL Editorial: Democracy in deficit yet again

The A5 Beltany Road

Road closures on main Derry to Dublin road as £615k resurfacing takes place

A public consultation on a proposed £30m 18-hole standard championship golf course in Bellarena is to be launched this month.

Public consultation on £30m championship standard Bellarena Golf Links

North West Cancer Centre

Western Trust cancer incidence rate 3.3% above average

View of Derry from Eskaheen.

Attitudes towards asylum seekers decline sharply in 2025 survey

Jonathan Kemp.

Derry set to welcome 4,200km mental‑health walk reaches the North‑West

George Fertakis pictured with his Derry City FC banner at the statue of Miltiadis in Marathon.

Derry City diehard George Fertakis cheering on Candystripes from Marathon Tomb

A mosquito on a human arm.

Mosquitoes moving from Foyle salt marsh to bite in Ballykelly village

The Housing Executive spent £3,000 on taxi provision for temporary and emergency housing applicants in Derry and Strabane in 2024/25.

£3,000 spent on taxis for emergency housing applicants in Derry/Strabane

Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) showing how the City Deal Central Riverfront project might look.

City Deal projects must be accelerated to avoid real term losses of £37m a year

Foyle MLA Ciara Ferguson.

Ferguson presses Nesbitt on roll-out of bowel cancer screening for the over 50s

Ulsterbus

Seamless free travel should be rolled out for Derry-Donegal pensioners: Senator

Sinn Féin councillor Sandra Duffy.

Derry tourism sees ‘astounding’ visitor spend of £93.6 million

Pictured at the launch of Strabane's bid for UK Town of Culture, 2028, are Jarlath McNulty, Vice-Chair Strabane Local Growth Parternship, Jessica O'Donnell, CRAIC, Kieran Kennedy, Chair, Strabane BID, Brian McGilloway, Writer and Cultural Ambassador, Cormac Peoples, CRAIC, and Deirdre Harte, DC&SDC Project Officer.

Strabane shortlisted for UK Town of Culture 2028

The old Stradreagh Hospital complex at the northern end of the Gransha Park estate.

DoH’s Gransha Park 'surplus' 231 acre land bank valued at £9.8m

The Beltany Road stretch of the A5

£1.7bn A5 road upgrade wrongly blocked, DfI counsel claims at Court of Appeal

DUP Alderman Chelsea Cooke

DUP’s Chelsea Cooke speaks of ‘deeply personal’ experience of baby loss

Flooding in the Foyle Road area during torrential rain.

Limited evidence flood risk management arrangements value for money: NIAO

A Bill to establish a Regional Balance Strategic Framework (RBSF) aimed at addressing economic disparities between different regions in the North has been introduced to the Assembly by Sinéad McLaughlin.

McLaughlin introduces bill to address regional economy disparities in the North

Women drivers continue to outperform men apart from at a small number of locations in the North, including Derry, new statistics have shown.

Women drivers continue to outperform men apart from Derry and a few places

Dr Paula Devine, Director of the NILT Survey and from Queen's; Dr Aisling O'Boyle from the School of Social Sciences, Education, and Social Work at Queen's; and Professor Lorna Carson from Trinity College Dublin.

56% believe Irish language adds to the richness and diversity in the North

Fourteen social houses were recovered in the Housing Executive’s West area as a result of tenancy fraud in 2024-25 at an approximate cost of £398,300, an audit has found.

14 NIHE social houses in West recovered due to fraud at cost of £398,300

Lilian Seenoi-Barr briefing the TEO Committee on the Draft Framework Race Relations and Delivery Plan 2026-2028.

Dr. Lilian Seenoi-Barr tells MLAs racism is ‘serious and urgent societal crisis’

Waterside railway station.

Derry railway station caters for over 1m passengers for first time

Over 2,000 penalty notices were issued to motorists for parking in accessible bays without a Blue Badge in Derry and Strabane over the past two years.

2,063 penalty notices issued to motorists for parking in accessible bays

Annual expenditure on agency nursing staff in the North has tripled in six years, reaching £162 million in 2024-25.

Agency nursing staff triples to £162m with some rates higher than London

Renowned civil rights scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw

Renowned civil rights scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw to speak in Derry

Economy Minister Caoimhe Archibald visit to Derry. Mandatory Credit ©Lorcan Doherty

36% rise in overnight trips to Derry and tourism spend up to £93,579,475

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