Derry Journal

There’s something nobody really tells you about getting a drastic haircut… It’s not the cutting it off that’s hard — it’s the growing it back.

It’s not the cutting it off that’s hard — it’s the growing it back ↗

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On Tuesday we will all gorge on pancakes in a last festival of indulgence before Lent.

Pancakes, secret marriages and roosters – old Shrovetide traditions ↗

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The population of Derry and Strabane could decline by 11,482 (7.6 per cent) to as low as 139,354 in the next twenty years under current projections.

Derry population could decline by 11,482 (7.6%) to as low as 139,354 in 20 years ↗

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Bee keepers have issued a stark warning over the potentially devastating impact of Asian hornets if they should return and multiply here as they have in other parts of Europe.

Asian hornet threat to pollinators raised with Derry & Strabane Council ↗

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A local councillor has called for a bus service to be introduced to Derry city’s new cemetery at Mullennan.

Calls for bus service to Derry’s new 3,380 plot, 27 acre cemetery at Mullennan ↗

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Pádraig Delargy has said it has been ‘the honour of my life’ to serve the people of Derry as Foyle MLA for the past four-and-a-half years.

Pádraig Delargy will not seek re-election as Sinn Féin MLA for Derry ↗

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SDLP Faughan Councillor Declan Norris has welcomed progress on the long-awaited replacement of Muff Glen Bridge.

Norris hails application to replace Derry bridge destroyed in 2017 floods ↗

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A newly reopened ‘Relatives’ and Consultation Room’ within the Altnagelvin Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit will provide ‘a place to breathe during some of the most difficult moments' in people’s lives, the Western Trust has said.

'A place to breathe during some of the most difficult moments in their lives' ↗

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