THE Bloody Sunday tribunal decided yesterday to delay taking legal action against Sinn Féin MP Martin McGuinness for refusing to reveal the names of fellow IRA members.

A former paratrooper who claims to have fired 19 shots at a sniper in a bathroom window on Bloody Sunday is expected to give evidence to the Saville Tribunal today.

NORTHERN Ireland Chief Constable Hugh Orde was under fire yesterday after claiming the Saville Tribunal into the Bloody Sunday killings was a waste of money.

A former RUC inspector today rejected suggestions that nail bombs could have been planted in the pockets of one of the victims of Bloody Sunday.

A former Sunday Times chief reporter said today he had spoken to a paratrooper who admitted the regiment had killed innocent civilians on Bloody Sunday.

The Bloody Sunday inquiry has to decide whether to order Channel Four to provide it with the names of soldiers interviewed anonymously for a series of reports in the late 1990s about the day troops shot dead 13 civilians in Derry, it was announced today.

The sister of a teenager shot dead by British troops on Bloody Sunday is mounting a legal bid to have Northern Ireland’s top judge excluded from an Appeal Court hearing challenging a ruling to have police witnesses screened at the Saville Tribunal.

One of the Bloody Sunday dead was shot by troops as he ran away - and his father was wounded trying to rescue him, it was claimed today.

A soldier who shot and injured a widowed mother-of-14 on Bloody Sunday cocked his rifle again afterwards - but walked away when she pleaded with him, the Saville Tribunal heard today.

The first victim of Bloody Sunday has told the inquiry he posed no threat when he was shot.