An IRA gunman, who admitted trying to shoot a soldier on Bloody Sunday, today said he heard three shots before using his weapon.

A former British army paratrooper did not see any threat that would have justified the shooting dead of civilians on Bloody Sunday, the Saville Inquiry heard today.

A former paratrooper who claims his colleagues killed 13 unarmed civil rights marchers without justification is “motivated by money”, the Bloody Sunday Inquiry was told today.

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.

Soldiers who anonymously gave controversial information to Channel 4 News about Bloody Sunday were urged tonight to come forward and identify themselves to the public inquiry into the shootings.

IRA men could not have been shot dead on Bloody Sunday and their deaths kept secret, the Saville Inquiry into the deaths of 13 civilians shot dead by paratroopers 30 year ago was told today.

An Official IRA quartermaster was on the committee of the Derry Civil Rights Association which organised the march on Bloody Sunday, it was claimed today.

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 Saville Inquiry today heard claims that members of the Official and Provisional branches of the IRA argued when Officials produced guns in Derry’s Bogside in the aftermath of the Bloody Sunday shootings.

One of the men wounded on Bloody Sunday today challenged the soldier responsible to meet him face-to-face and tell the truth about what he did.

A soldier predicted that "lots of bodies would leave the Bogside" on the afternoon of the Bloody Sunday killings, the Saville Inquiry has heard.