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A planned sculpture to honour Derry's "Factory Girls" is shelved over spiralling costs. The Department for Communities says it "acknowledges that the decision not to proceed with the Factory Girl鈥檚 sculpture is disappointing. Given the passage of time, the cost of completing the project would now result in a total project cost of almost four times the original budget."

A Strabane listener is grateful she read the small print, after finding her car insurance wasn't all she thought, once she crossed the border.

And live in studio with her son, Gabe, Kimmie Rhodes the Texan singer-songwriter whose songs have been played by Willie Nelson, Wynonna Judd, Trisha Yearwood, Amy Grant, CeCe Winans, Joe Ely, John Farnham, Waylon Jennings, Peter Frampton, Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris.