The Parades Commission in the North will be reappointed in January if local politicians fail to reach agreement on controversial marches, Northern Ireland Secretary Owen Paterson said today.

A British MP has said he has a memo showing Tony Blair and George Bush struck a secret deal to invade Iraq.

The Bloody Sunday Inquiry has dropped a British High Court action against a journalist who refused to reveal his sources, it was confirmed today.

Sinn Féin chief Martin McGuinness was accused today of lying to the Saville Inquiry when he claimed he sought permission from a family to give the whereabouts of an IRA safe house on Bloody Sunday.

A man described today how he heard a shot from an Official IRA gunman before he heard Army fire in the Bogside on Bloody Sunday.

Former SDLP MP Ivan Cooper has told the Saville Inquiry how he saw a man being shot dead as he tried to go to the aid of a dying man on Bloody Sunday more than 32 years ago.

A former member of the Royal Navy who joined the IRA today conceded he could have fired a shot at the Army before his gun jammed on Bloody Sunday.

A former paratrooper who joined the Ulster Defence Association after Bloody Sunday told the Saville Inquiry today that he served a sentence in the high security Maze Prison for firearms offences.

SINN FÉIN’S Martin McGuinness has instructed his legal team to play no part in the cross-examination of MI5 agents due to give evidence to the Bloody Sunday tribunal this week.

An informer who alleged he was told the IRA fired the first shots on Bloody Sunday was a brave man and a very valuable agent, it was claimed today.

British military chiefs did not know that paratroopers had shot two members of the public just minutes before soldiers shot dead a dozen unarmed men on Bloody Sunday, it was disclosed today.

The British army’s wall of snipers on Bloody Sunday did not spot a single gunman during the main shootings, the Saville Inquiry was told today.

A former British soldier whose evidence is central to the Bloody Sunday Inquiry has told the tribunal that his personal diary notes of the events of January 30, 1972, were stolen by French transvestites.

Two journalists have refused an order by the Bloody Sunday Inquiry to reveal the names of four soldiers interviewed anonymously.

A leading barrister today disputed reports that lawyers working on the Bloody Sunday Inquiry had already been paid €50.7m.

A former Army Paratrooper who has claimed in a TV programme he opened fire in Derry’s Bogside on Bloody Sunday was named today by the judges re-investigating the shootings.

The chairman of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, Lord Saville, said he does not believe any genuine claims for anonymity in the inquiry have been prejudiced.

Bloody Sunday Inquiry chairman, Lord Saville, has moved to allay fears that a witness kept "off the record" an account of seeing a gunman on the day .