Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness allegedly fired a shot inside a bookmaker’s shop in Derry on Bloody Sunday, the Saville Inquiry heard today.

The co-author of a book which alleged that Martin McGuinness handed out nail bombs to youth members of the IRA on Bloody Sunday today denied claims that it was politically motivated.

Sunday Times Northern Ireland Editor Liam Clarke will be the first person to give evidence as the Bloody Sunday Inquiry returns to Derry’s Guildhall today.

Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness was expected today to deny claims that he was preparing an attack in Derry on Bloody Sunday.

The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) and World Editors Forum (WEF) have lodged an official protest with Tony Blair over the arrest of two journalists in the North for publishing transcripts of bugged telephone calls.

A 48-year-old former Special Branch officer has been charged with offences under the Official Secrets Act following an investigation into the alleged leaking of transcripts of phone calls between Martin McGuinness and senior government officials.

SUNDAY TIMES Northern Ireland editor Liam Clarke and his wife Kathryn Johnston were released on bail yesterday from police custody.

Police in the North have released Liam Clarke, Ireland editor of the Sunday Times, and his wife, Kathryn Johnston, following their arrest yesterday in connection with the leaking of transcripts of bugged telephone conversations between Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness and British officials.

THE Sunday Times Ireland editor Liam Clarke was arrested yesterday by detectives investigating the leaking of transcripts of telephone conversations between British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s chief of staff and Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness.

Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness today dismissed as ‘‘a load of rubbish’’ a new biography of him which claims he distributed blast bombs to young IRA members ahead of the Bloody Sunday march in Derry where 14 civil rights activists were shot dead by paratroopers.