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Letter to Mr Murphy

Martina Purdy Martina Purdy | 17:22 UK time, Friday, 17 August 2007

The Ulster Unionist MLA Billy Armstrong has dropped me an email about his letter to the regional development minister Conor Murphy. The UUP member for Mid-Ulster is demanding Mr Murphy take urgent action to ensure that all correspondence issued by his department and by the Water Service use the term County Londonderry. Mr Armstrong says he has received numerous complaints that correspondence and bills are addressed "County Derry rather than the proper and full name of County Londonderry."

Now that sounds like one for Talkback on Monday!

PS By which time I expect my colleague Mark Devenport to resume the Devenport Diaries. Thank you for all your comments!

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  • At 06:13 AM on 21 Aug 2007,
  • Bob Smith wrote:

I think Derry or Doire is actually the correct name for both county and city, and the sooner they are returned to their original and proper names, the better...

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