Britain's Prince Harry is to be withdrawn from Afghanistan after his security was compromised by international media, the Ministry of Defence confirmed today.

The UK authorities promised Norman Kember’s family and his church that they would not attempt a rescue unless they could be reasonably confident that no-one would be killed, it was claimed today.

Peace activist Norman Kember was back on British soil today after a 119-day hostage ordeal in Iraq.

Veteran soldiers from the North and the Republic have marched together at the first inspection on a UK parade ground by a representative of the Irish Defence Force, it emerged today.

Shocking photographs apparently showing British troops torturing an Iraqi detainee were published tonight.

The head of the British army, General Sir Mike Jackson was returning to the Saville Inquiry today to give evidence about documents he wrote on Bloody Sunday.

Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble today welcomed a pledge from the British government that it had no plans to axe Royal Irish Regiment battalions as part of a scheme to cut troop levels in Northern Ireland.

A senior British Army officer was “very, very annoyed” when he learned that paratroopers were being sent into the Bogside on Bloody Sunday and urged his superiors to think again, he told the Saville Inquiry today.

One of Britain’s most distinguished soldiers today said the Army was warned that the IRA intended to turn the Bloody Sunday march into a “bloodbath“.

Former British Prime Minister Ted Heath today bluntly denied that the Bloody Sunday killings were planned and covered up by the British government.

THE personal assistant to the British Army’s most senior frontline officer on Bloody Sunday yesterday denied destroying his notes of the event because he had witnessed a massacre.