by Roger Donnelly
The funeral takes place this afternoon of the farmer killed in a crash outside Coleraine on Tuesday .
Jim McCollum, 75, a married man with a grown-up family from Blagh near Coleraine, died after his Landrover Jeep hit a tree on the Curragh Road.
Mr McCollum, a much-respected employer to many over the years, had been driving home from Kilrea Cattle Market at the time of the crash.

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He'll be buried after a service at Ballyclabber Reformed Presbyterian Church.
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