Esther McCarthy speaks to film director and producer Maurice Fitzpatrick about his documentary on Northern Ireland peace campaigner John Hume

The family of murdered Belfast father of two Robert McCartney is to meet Tony Blair later today.

The British Army’s failure to divulge its plans for an arrest operation to the Bloody Sunday march organisers contributed to the shooting by paratroopers of 27 civilians, 13 of whom died, the Saville Inquiry today heard.

One of Britain’s most distinguished soldiers today said the Army was warned that the IRA intended to turn the Bloody Sunday march into a “bloodbath“.

Not one of more than 1,000 army photographs of the Bloody Sunday march shows a gunman or bomber, the Saville Inquiry was told today.

A university professor who attended the Bloody Sunday march said today he knew army claims that the IRA started the gun battles ‘‘this time at least would be a lie’’.