Communities Minister Carál Ní Chuilín has announced the reappointment of Professor Peter Roberts as the Chair of the NI Housing Executive (NIHE) Board until 4 November 2022.

A £265,000 resurfacing scheme on the Foyle Embankment in Derry will commence on Monday 24 August and is scheduled to last for three weeks.

The recent discussion about the road marking in Strawberrybank resulted in a few enquiries to me from residents about the spelling of Strawberrybank … err … or is that Strawberry Bank?

I must confess that I have always personally spelt the lane as Strawberrybank but ran the query past the City Archivist who advises :

“With regard to the name, Dundee directories, electoral registers, valuation rolls and One Scotland Gazetteer of Scottish addresses have it as ‘Strawberrybank’ whereas it appears as ‘Strawberry Bank’ on Ordnance Survey maps. 

According to Gillian Molloy’s ‘Street Names of Old Dundee’ it was originally called Hampton’s Lane after John Hampton, a mason and gardener who owned property there.

It is referred to as Strawberry Bank in a document dated 1859 and the name is thought to refer to a nearby bank of wild strawberries.”

The Department for Communities has reappointed five members to the Board of Sport NI.

Statistics on young people who are not in education, employment or training (NEET) were published today by the Northern Ireland Statistics & Research Agency.