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.

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.

The British army operation on Bloody Sunday was an assault on the participants in a civil rights march, it was claimed 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.

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.

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.

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