Bills and budgets are in focus as people in Londonderry and Strabane prepare to vote in the council elections LE23
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In the Galliagh Community Centre, which was opened a year ago at a cost of £1.5m, there is a vibrant self-help attitude among the volunteers. She sums up the mood: "Due to the cost-of-living problems, this is now a warm hub and gives people the chance to come in out of the cold, to get a day out of the house so they are not using their heating all the time.
Politicians pop in from time to time and also correspond with the centre, but she thinks they could do more.As for the deadlock at Stormont, she has a simple request: "I wish everybody would go back in and start the talks."Outside the Galliagh Community Centre the lamp posts are adorned with some of the faces of those who want to be elected to the Guildhall Chamber.
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