When Mo Mowlam became Northern Ireland Secretary, she may well have had her hero Winston Churchill in mind – and his declaration that history would be kind to him because he intended to write it.

The mother of an 18-year-old schoolboy killed by loyalist paramilitaries 11 years ago today called for “a Bloody Sunday-style inquiry” into his and other murders.

Police have today arrested a top loyalist in connection with the murder of Northern Ireland human rights lawyer Rosemary Nelson.