A former paratrooper whose rifle fired the shot which killed a teenager on Bloody Sunday, is expected to give evidence at the Saville Inquiry today.

The officer commanding paratroopers on Bloody Sunday said today he could not recall if any thought was given to the danger to innocent bystanders if shooting broke out.

The British army has known all along that Martin McGuinness did not open fire on soldiers on Bloody Sunday, it was claimed today.

General Mike Jackson, the British army's Chief of the General Staff, interrupted his duties in the Iraq war today to give evidence at the Bloody Sunday Inquiry.

General Sir Mike Jackson, Britain's Chief of the General Staff, is to interrupt his duties in commanding British forces in the Iraq war to give evidence at the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, it was confirmed today.

General Sir Michael Jackson, the British Chief of General Staff, may be forced to cancel his appearance at the Bloody Sunday Inquiry because of war in the Gulf, it emerged today.

The officer commanding paratroopers on Bloody Sunday admitted today it was surprising that two of his soldiers did not inform him they shot two men before he ordered other troops into the nationalist Bogside area.

The officer commanding paratroopers on Bloody Sunday today said that since then he had never thought about what went wrong on the day 13 civil rights marchers were shot dead.

THERE was no secret army plan to seize control of the nationalist Bogside area on Bloody Sunday, the officer in command of paratroopers on that day said yesterday.

The officer commanding the British soldiers responsible for Bloody Sunday has told the Saville Inquiry that the paratroopers never intended to seize control of the IRA-controlled Bogside area.

The officer in command of paratroopers in Derry on Bloody Sunday today said he did not hear any army shooting before he sent his men into the nationalist Bogside area.

Martin McGuinness’s appearance in the witness box in the Bloody Sunday Inquiry will be in the autumn at the earliest, the Sinn Fein MP said tonight.

Two paratroopers fired shots without aiming as they ran through Derry on Bloody Sunday, a soldier claimed today.

The officer in command of paratroopers in Derry on Bloody Sunday today insisted his men acted professionally when 13 civil rights marchers were shot dead by soldiers.

The officer in charge of the British soldiers who killed 13 unarmed Catholic civilians in Derry in 1972 has defended his men in evidence to the Saville Inquiry today.

The officer in charge of the paratroopers in Derry on Bloody Sunday was giving evidence today to the Saville Inquiry into the 1972 shootings.

A paratrooper today said he could have been mistaken about hearing 15 to 20 shots being fired at paratroopers before they entered the Bogside on Bloody Sunday.

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.

Paratroopers who opened fire killing 13 civilians on Bloody Sunday may have been suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, a journalist who spent time with them beforehand claimed today.

The British Army's second-in-command in the North replied 'Well done', when told that unarmed bodies had been found on Bloody Sunday, the inquiry into the shootings was told today.

A group of people huddled in a stairwell in fear for their lives and praying as gunfire echoed outside on Bloody Sunday, it was claimed today.

The Commander of 1 Para, Colonel Derek Wilford, warned a photographer to stay behind an Army barricade on Bloody Sunday, it was claimed today.