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New speed limits introduced outside local primary schools
A local principal has welcomed the move.
UUP representative Robert Carmichael has welcomed the new limits.
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Three schools in the Roe Valley area of County Derry have become the latest to benefit from the Department of Infrastructure speed reduction scheme.
Drumrane PS Burnfoot, St Canice s PS Feeny and St Matthew s PS Drumsurn will all receive new signage.
The move has been welcomed by local UUP representative Robert Carmichael.
“Our children’s safety is paramount and should always be at the forefront of our minds,” he said.
Alison Steen, principal of Drumrane PS, said the new limits would make existing initiatives at the school even safer.
An explosive device has been found under the vehicle of a member of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) at a rural property just outside Dungiven, Co Derry, security sources have said.
A âstrong line of inquiryâ is that the dissident republican group the New IRA was responsible, police said on Tuesday.
Those who planted the bomb at the rear of the female police officerâs car left the device âdirectly at the point where her three-year-old daughter sitsâ, police also said.
Assistant Chief Constable Mark McEwan told reporters at a press conference that the âviable deviceâ â which was made of explosives attached to a container of flammable liquid â was âdesigned to cause a fireball which would have engulfed the victimâs car and anyone in itâ, as well as âanyone calling to the house or anyone in the proximityâ.
PSNI suspect New IRA behind bomb attack on police officer First attack by dissident group since the arrest of its alleged leadership last year
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The PSNI has said a “strong line of inquiry” is that the New IRA dissident republican group was responsible for planting a bomb outside the home of an off-duty woman police officer in Dungiven, Co Derry, on Monday.
At a press conference on Tuesday, Assistant Chief Constable Mark McEwan highlighted other attacks by the New IRA, including the murder of Lyra McKee in Derry in April 2019.
“If we think back to the bomb attack outside Derry courthouse in 2019, a group of young people narrowly escaping being caught up in the blast . . . almost to the day, two years ago, this group of wicked individuals murdered Lyra McKee in Creggan, ” said Mr McEwan.