The senior army officer who was the army’s helicopter observer on Bloody Sunday today said he only had a limited view of events - and that he had lobbied to handle the march differently.

Soldiers who burst into the Bogside on Bloody Sunday were “raring to go” and arrest rioters, a British Major General said today.

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.

The British army’s wall of snipers on Bloody Sunday did not spot a single gunman during the main shootings, the Saville Inquiry was told today.