A son of leading republican Dominic McGlinchey was the getaway driver during the murder of two soldiers, a court has heard.

Germany launched a new bid today to have the daughter of an ex-MP extradited to stand trial over an IRA bomb attack on a British Army base.

The appointment of two Orangemen to the Parades Commission, which rules on contentious Orange parades in Northern Ireland, was challenged in the High Court in Belfast today.

Three men being held over a suspected terrorism bomb-making plot tonight won the right to challenge police refusal to give assurances that their conversations with solicitors were not being secretly taped.

A soldier today denied lying about seeing a civilian gunman and hearing non-British army gunfire in Derry on Bloody Sunday.

Military police invented an account of a gunman firing at soldiers on Bloody Sunday in an official statement, it was claimed today.

A soldier who claims he shot two gunmen on Bloody Sunday today denied he entered the nationalist Bogside area of Derry waiting for the opportunity to shoot civil rights marchers.

The widow of a man shot dead on Bloody Sunday walked out of the Saville Inquiry today in protest at measures put in place to protect the identity of a witness.

A secret service officer said today he was not aware an account he received about Bloody Sunday from an informer he regarded as reliable was nonsense.

A former lieutenant in the Parachute Regiment today rejected a suggestion paratroopers were sent to Derry on Bloody Sunday “simply to administer violence”.

A former British soldier who arrested alleged rioters on Bloody Sunday today denied having fabricated statements about them.

An investigator with the Royal Military Police today denied having “watered down” statements from paratroopers who opened fired on Bloody Sunday.

A British paratrooper’s radically different accounts of killing a Bloody Sunday marcher were not put before the Widgery Inquiry, it was revealed today.

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.

The decision to allow some police witnesses to give evidence to the Bloody Sunday inquiry from behind screens is being challenged.

The Bloody Sunday Inquiry is being asked to look into the possibility that evidence may have been suppressed by staff working on the original Widgery Inquiry.