Security alert in Derry declared as ‘nothing untoward’

THE security alert in the Lecky Road area of Derry ended overnight.

Army Technical Officers examined a suspicious object discovered in the area and have declared it to be nothing untoward.

All roads in the area later reopened to traffic.

There had been a spate of alerts across the North of Ireland on Monday which were declared as either hoax devices or
nothing untoward.

It came in the wake of six people – four men and two women – who appeared in court in Belfast on IRA terror offences linked to a bugging operation by MI5.