Internet map readers can now access a street view after internet giant Google rolled out its street view maps this morning.

Google Maps allows users to view and navigate 360 degree street-level imagery and online visitors can now take a virtual walk around the Walls of Derry or see Strabanes famous tinneys.

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The regeneration plans are being aimed at these areas as they are seen as somewhere with a need for social housing.

But, Sinn Fein Councillor for the Shantallow area, Tony Hassan, says residents have raised concerns with him about the green areas in Carnhill and Galliagh being destroyed.

The boning hall was due to close at the end of April, with the company transferring its operations to one of its plants in Derry or Tyrone.

SIPTU made a proposal to the company which they accepted, which saved the 91 jobs.

Donegal representative for SIPTU, Martin O Rourke says its great news.

The taxi owners claim that new regulations and rules being introduced by the regulator will drive them out of business, including a rule that no car over 9 years old can be used as a taxi. The drivers say that passing the NCT should be sufficient.

A number of local issues were also raised, including an increase in the number of tickets being issued by gardai in the town, and the use by some drivers of the disabled bays outside the bus station, which the association says is compromising the new rank across the road.

Cllr Dessie Larkin says he believes the regulator has a Dublin focus, and there should be individual regulators for each county.

Members agreed to contact the regulator, and also outlined a number of issues they want the taxi owners to address, including a commitment that passengers will only be picked up at designated taxi ranks.

The two sides will meet again in the coming weeks.

The council  says the project will nurture and develop the tourism industry in the Buncrana area and the wider Inishowen area, by developing the visitbuncrana.com website, as well as devising a new tourism brochure, initially focussing on the domestic and UK markets.

Discussions with industry representitives and others will take place in the coming weeks.

North West MEP Pat the Cope Gallagher says the discussions on planning policy and roads could end an anamoly whereby development proposals, even on lighly trafficked roads in Donegal, are automatically blocked by the National Roads Authority.

Mr Gallagher says this allow much vacant land around Donegal to be used.

Records show that while there had been a settlement in the area for over a thousand years, the character of Letterkenny as a market town came from the granting of lands in the area during the Ulster plantation around 1611.

Fianna Fail Cllr Tadhg Culbert says this could provide the focus for a major celebration next year. However, Cllr Gerry Mc Monagle of Sinn Fein says what happened during the plantation should not be taken as the basis for a birthday party.

The building is owned by a group of investors, and is leased from them by Mulroy Healthcare Ltd, which operates the nursing home.

The receiver has said that no changes are envisaged or planned to staffing and patient services.

Just last month, talks of major job losses were played down by trade union SIPTU.

Assisstant General Secretary of the Technical Engineering and Electrical Union, Dan Miller, says he met with the company last week.

He says the company has been totally unreasonable.

Two women and a man have been charged with grievous bodily harm. The court heard a man and a woman were seen jumping on the 16-year-old’s head.

One of the three charged, 22-year-old Rose Mongan, care of the Simon Community, Strabane, was granted bail yesterday.

She said she tried to stop the attack. Her solicitor said CCTV footage set her at up to 10ft away from the assault.

The judge ordered Ms Mongan to stay out of Derry.

The court was told that the 16-year-old boy from Birmingham was socialising with his brother in the city last Thursday.

He went to get a takeaway and was attacked. He suffered severe cuts and needed 17 stitches.

The cartilage at the back of his right ear was so badly damaged that he will be permanently deformed, the court heard.