There are many things you don’t expect to do in your 20’s, and becoming Santa’s not-so-little helper would have topped my list, had I even considered it a possibility.

The City of Culture has suffered from a poor marketing strategy, its organisers admitted today.

Girls Aloud star Nadine Coyle and Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody will help kick off celebrations in the North's first City of Culture, it has been confirmed.

City of Culture status could do for Derry what the Olympics did for London, organisers have claimed.