Londonderry County, Northern Ireland News

A man was abducted and beaten today as he walked home from a party. Detectives are investigating the possibility the overnight attack in Garvagh, Co Derry, was sectarian.

Chapters Paul Clark and Lynda Bryans present the local news from Northern Ireland.

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Another 150 call centre jobs are to be created in Derry , it has been revealed. Business support company Firstsource plans to employ workers including customer support advisers and operations management.

The percentage of people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance in the Derry City area has fallen for the first month since the economic crisis began.

A 24 years old Limavady man has been found guilty of hitting a ten year old boy across the face with a wooden stick after first threatening to eat the boy's dog "in 50 bites". William Young, of 17 Janes Valley, Limavady, contested the charge of aggravated assault against a boy under the age of 14 at Derry Magistrate's Court on Friday last.

The Stormont Department of Health says it is unable to confirm a report that a ninth person has died in Northern Ireland after contracting swine flu.

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TEN convicted sex offenders - all classed as posing a serious risk of carrying out a further sexual or violent offence - were being monitored under new multi-agency public protection arrangements in Londonderry, a new report has revealed.

THE heartbroken brother of a woman who killed her young child before taking her own life, broke down in the witness box yesterday as he recalled the last few months of his sister's life.

The number of loyalist paramilitary assaults has increased sharply, Northern Ireland's ceasefire watchdog has said.

Derry is to be the Northern hub of a new cross-border battle against diabetes. NUI Galway and the University of Ulster have joined forces with HSE West and the Western Health and Social Care Trust to create a collaborative cross-border partnership on diabetes-related research.

CRITICS questioning the history of Limavady United Football Club are wrong, senior supporters of the club have claimed.

The number of swine flu cases in Northern Ireland rose by 16% last week according to the latest figures, with young children remaining most susceptible to the virus.

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A report published on Tuesday by Northern Ireland's Independent Monitoring Commission , which reviews paramilitary activity, is expected to focus on an upsurge in dissident republican attacks.

MAGHERAFELT Councillor Patsy Groogan claims "a heavy handed approach" by police resulted in violence in Draperstown on Hallowe'en night.

Dissident republican groups are getting bigger, more dangerous and are being helped by former members of the mainstream IRA, the International Monitoring Commission said today.

Unionist Assembly members have rejected a call for the North West to be named an area of 'special economic need' to help overcome what republicans said was decades of deprivation.

A 23-year-old man was shot in Londonderry's Creggan Estate last night . The man was taken to hospital from treatment after five men entered the home at Iniscarn Crescent around 8pm and attacked him.