CANADIAN billionaire Galen Weston has donated thousands of euro towards the restoration of an RAF Spitfire dug from a Co Donegal bog earlier this summer.

An ambulance and a council recycling van were in collision today on the main Derry to Belfast road.

THE North’s Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness has been challenged to meet the victims of the Claudy bombing after revealing he met the chief suspect in the attack.

Ambitious plans to increase tourist visitors to Derry by 8% in each of the next three years were unveiled today.

A funeral service for a Catholic police officer gunned down by dissident republicans will take place in the North today.

A former prominent Sinn Féin member today received a £15,000 (€17,000) settlement from the party after claiming she was discriminated against for jobs at its Westminster office.

Jobs at the loss-making City of Derry Airport are under threat, it was revealed tonight.

Workers facing redundancy at a French-owned car components plant in the North were today maintaining a sit-in amid a row over the size of their pay-off.

Ireland missed an opportunity after failing to invest properly in wind energy, Minister for the Environment John Gormley said today.

THE body of a deep sea diver, reported missing on Tuesday evening, was recovered off the coast of Malin Head, Co Donegal, yesterday morning.

Divers today recovered the body of a father of four who died during the underwater filming of a sunken Nazi U-Boat in treacherous waters.

A man has died while taking part in a dive off the coast of Co Donegal near Malin Head.

An independent inquiry into the four day closure of City of Derry Airport over safety concerns was ordered tonight.

The City of Derry Airport was reopened today after regulatory officials approved new passenger safety measures.

The new speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly is set to be the Democratic Unionist Party's Willie Hay, it was confirmed today.

THE British and Irish Governments are to provide three-quarters of the money needed for an extension to the runway at Derry City Airport, it was announced yesterday.

A PUBLICLY owned airport handed over at least £1.25 million (€1.86m) of ratepayers’ money to promote airline giant Ryanair, it was revealed yesterday.

City of Derry airport has handed more than €1.8m of ratepayers' money to promote airline giant Ryanair, it was revealed today.

A PUBLICLY owned airport in the North has been ordered to disclose its secret deal with Ryanair, it emerged yesterday.

The ISEQ index of Irish shares ended the day on a high note gaining 25.95 points to 89260.09.

A publicly-owned airport in the North has been ordered to disclose its secret deal with Ryanair, it emerged today.

A court hearing in the North has begun over whether Derry City Council can change the official name of the town from Londonderry. Derry's nationalists have long-sought a change reviving the original Irish meaning of ‘Oak Grove’, but unionists are opposed to it.

Slow movement on all business fronts was reflected on the ISEQ this morning as the index shed 13.47 points to 8518.36.

Closing arguments get under way today in a landmark case over a secret deal between Ryanair and the North's only publicly-owned airport.

A nephew of SDLP leader Mark Durkan tonight showed signs of improvement after suffering head injuries in a fall from a ladder.

Northern Secretary Peter Hain tonight ruled out the prospect of a nuclear power station being built in the North.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern’s plans for Northern Ireland Assembly members to attend 1916 Easter Rising and Battle of the Somme commemorations were dealt a blow today after they were rejected by the Ulster Unionists.

Democratic Unionist Party councillors have criticised planned commemorations of the 1916 Easter Rising in Derry this year.

The SDLP has walked out of the monthly meeting of Derry City Council accusing Sinn Féin of making remarks that could endanger their members.

Protestants living in Derry feel increasingly alienated and fearful about the future, research claimed today.

The number of reported crimes against the gay and lesbian community in Derry have fallen over the past six months, police figures showed today.

Derry City supporters will once again be able to watch games from the terraced Lone Moor Road side of the Brandywell after health and safety authorities gave the ground the okay.

THE British Government faced new demands yesterday to free a republican jailed for refusing to testify to an inquiry into the Bloody Sunday killings.

The millions of people who were exterminated in Nazi death camps will never be allowed to be forgotten, Northern Ireland Secretary Paul Murphy said today.

THE Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment rejected claims yesterday that a Task Force launched by Tánaiste Mary Harney for Donegal in 1999 had been shelved, claiming more than 1,000 jobs had been created since it was set up.

Ryanair is halving its daily service between City of Derry airport and London, and warned tonight it may scrap it altogether.

A GANG attack on an SDLP councillor in Derry was being investigated by the police yesterday.

A gang attack on an SDLP councillor in Derry was being investigated by the police today.

Artefacts from the sunken ship La Trinidad Valencera are to form the centrepiece of a new Spanish Armada exhibition in Derry.

A Sinn Féin councillor, who was leader of the Fianna, the junior wing of the IRA in Derry, tonight denied its members were involved in attacks on the British army on Bloody Sunday.

A FORMER IRA man convicted of bombing Derry’s town hall told the Bloody Sunday Tribunal sitting in the same hall yesterday that no Provisionals fired on that day.

A former IRA man convicted of bombing Derry’s town hall returned to the same building today to give evidence about his activities on Bloody Sunday.

FAMILIES set to lose their homes to make way for an extension to the runway at the City of Derry Airport yesterday pledged to fight until the bulldozers made them homeless.

Families set to lose their homes to make way for an extension to the runway at City of Derry Airport today pledged to fight until the bulldozers made them homeless.