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Locked gates to cenotaph will open (Londonderry)

Four locked gates at a city's war memorial are to be thrown open for the first time. Casual visitors to the cenotaph at the Diamond in Londonderry would have found their way firmly barred in the past.

It has often been the target for vandals throwing paint bombs as November's war commemorations begin.

But there are plans to make Derry people aware that of the 756 names on the memorial, nearly half belong to Catholic soldiers who died in World War I.

"People must realise that the Diamond war memorial belongs to all the people of the city and that we have a shared history," Mary McElhinney of the Diamond War Memorial Project said.
Read entire article at BBC