Republicans tonight urged Spanish authorities to free a suspected IRA bomber wanted in Germany over a plot to blow up a British military base.

A former British soldier who joined the IRA was jailed for six and a half years in Germany today for attempted murder at his old army base.

A suspected IRA member, accused of attempted murder at a British military base in Germany, will invoke his right of silence, his lawyers said at the opening of his trial today.

Four years after Germany’s worst ever train crash killed 101 people, the trial of three engineers began today.