British military chiefs did not know that paratroopers had shot two members of the public just minutes before soldiers shot dead a dozen unarmed men on Bloody Sunday, it was disclosed today.

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.

Official documents recording the orders given to the Bloody Sunday paratroopers to enter the Bogside do not match the events on the ground, the Saville Inquiry heard today.

British army records about the order to send the paratroopers in on Bloody Sunday do not fully reflect the decisions made at the time, the Saville Inquiry was told today.

One of the Army’s main bases in Northern Ireland is to close and 500 soldiers moved back to Britain, Chief Constable Ronnie Flanagan announced today.

Dissident republicans were today blamed for a grenade attack on an RUC Station.

Terrorists staged a bogus car crash in a bid to lure police officers into a death trap in Derry, it was claimed today.

One of the men wounded on Bloody Sunday today challenged the soldier responsible to meet him face-to-face and tell the truth about what he did.

British and Irish officials are holding new talks today in Belfast as the RUC investigate a fresh outbreak of attacks across the North.

Dissident republicans sent a defiant message to Gerry Adams as he met Tony Blair at Downing Street.