A senior British Army officer was “very, very annoyed” when he learned that paratroopers were being sent into the Bogside on Bloody Sunday and urged his superiors to think again, he told the Saville Inquiry today.

The senior army officer who was the army’s helicopter observer on Bloody Sunday today said he only had a limited view of events - and that he had lobbied to handle the march differently.

Former British Prime Minister Edward Heath is due to give evidence to the Bloody Sunday Inquiry today.

The man who commanded the British army on Bloody Sunday today said he had unknowingly given “inaccurate” information to the original inquiry into the shootings.

The officer commanding the British Army’s operation in Derry on Bloody Sunday today insisted that he gave the order to launch the arrest of stone-throwing hooligans which ultimately led to the deaths of 13 unarmed civilians.

Britain’s most senior frontline officer on Bloody Sunday today denied that 13 unarmed civilians were killed because the British army was trying to make his suggestion to shoot rioters into a reality.

A FORMER paratrooper said yesterday he fabricated his original eyewitness account of the Bloody Sunday shootings that put soldiers in a positive light.

A former paratrooper said today he fabricated his original eyewitness account of the Bloody Sunday shootings that put soldiers in a positive light.

A former British paratrooper today said he was “baffled” when his fellow paras began firing on Bloody Sunday killing 13 unarmed civil rights marchers.

The first of the Bloody Sunday paratroopers was today giving evidence into the killing of 13 unarmed men on a civil rights march on January 30, 1972.