This week's Coleraine Chronicle - In the shops now

In this weeks edition, we have eight pages of Remembrance Sunday coverage across Coleraine, Garvagh & Kilrea, Portrush, Portstewart, Castlerock and Aghadowey.

MLA Alan Robinson described his experience of he and his child were forced to wait “on the floor” during a visit to Causeway Hospital’s ED. “I know that in recent times when I was in ED with a child, certainly in the front section, there was a bit of capacity there but, in the children's section which i was subsequently moved into, both my child and I were on the floor, such were the presses on the children's section that evening.”

A ‘surrender bin’ is to be installed in Coleraine which will allow the disregarding of ‘zombie knives, machetes and ninja swords’. The initiative as been promoted over the fears of rising knife crime and the role of blades in a large proportion of murders across the Province. Stormont’s Department of Justice wants to ban the offensive weapons completely. But first wants to give owners the opportunity to dispose of them in a safe and legal way before the ban comes in.

A fresh appeal for the disappearance of Portrush man Dean Patton has been issued. Dean has been missing for 14 years, and was last seen in the area of Main Street Portrush, on the afternoon of July 2012. Detective Inspector Lavery said: “We understand Dean disappeared 14 years ago, but we would appeal to any members of the public who remember seeing Dean, to get in touch with us.”

For full stories and coverage, see this weeks Coleraine Chronicle.