Londonderry County, Northern Ireland News

A MURDER investigation is continuing following the death of a teenager who fell from an apartment in Belfast.

Stormont Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness tonight called on First Minister Peter Robinson to publish his list of pre-conditions for devolving policing powers to Northern Ireland.

A woman in her 20s has died following a crash on the Glenshane Road near Maghera in County Londonderry.

SINN Fein's newly installed MLA for East Derry has said he hopes to promote cross border tourism packages to people visiting the area through his newly appointed post.

TUV leader Jim Allister is facing more calls to take firm action against a party member who organised a petition calling for the release of Greysteel killer Torrens Knight.

Six Chinese "sergeants" in a major cannabis growing operation have been jailed for three years each.

A BODY has been found near a Swindon school for the second time this week. A 46-year-old man, believed to be local father Joe McHugh, was discovered yesterday morning at 6am in the lane between the Crumpled Horn pub and the Eldene shops, at the bottom of Thorne Road.

Jim Allister's Traditional Unionist Voice party has distanced itself from a petition organised by one of its members calling for the release of notorious loyalist killer Torrens Knight.

The 1960s was a period of rapid economic and social change characterised by the emergence of independence movements in many Third World countries.

A hotel porter has been jailed for fifteen months after he admitted stealing money from two wedding reception guests in the Radisson Hotel in Limavady, Co.

One of Northern Ireland's most ruthless loyalist paramilitary assassins, who was freed from jail under the terms of the Good Friday peace agreement , was sentenced to four months today for beating up two sisters.

An alleged killer's mobile phone movements can be tracked from Derry to west Belfast at a time when a gang butchered a traveller in front of his wife, a jury heard today.

The family of a Dungiven Credit Union official abducted and robbed of A 45,000 at gun point on Friday have spoken of the ordeal.

A Dungiven man convicted of sexual offences has been sent to jail for three months and ordered to sign the Sex Offenders' Register for seven years.

Police in Derry are winning the war against both RAAD and the drugs trade, a top cop has told the 'Journal'. PSNI Inspector John Burrows said that increased police patrols in punishment shooting hotspots such as Creggan are thwarting the vigilante group.

A LONDONDERRY pilot - a key mover in the decision by Council to get involved in Eglinton airport in 1978 - now regrets having successfully persuaded the local authority to have done so.

REPORTS are coming in of a 'Tiger Kidnapping' in Dungiven this afternoon. Witnesses have told the Sentinel said a man entered a premises in the town and withdrew large amount of money.

Notorious loyalist murderer Torrens Knight will be sentenced on Friday for attacking two sisters in Coleraine last year.

Families members of two of the five young people who died in one of the worst car accidents in the history of the State have today settled their High Court action for more than a 400,000. The actions were brought by Brendan and Annette Duffy, the parents of Gavin, and by Rose and Anthony O'Connor and their children Nicole, Mary and William, whose ...

PUPILS at St Patrick's College in Maghera were devastated following the tragic death school chum Patrick McErlean in a quad bike crash, according to the principal.