Violence that followed the annual Apprentice Boys parade in Derry was unacceptable and sectarian, the North's deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness said.

Sixteen police officers were injured in rioting in Belfast in the wake of the Twelfth of July Orange Order parades.

Police in the North have come under attack for the second consecutive night as violence flared following Orange Order parades in Belfast.

More than 150 people attended a vigil in Derry last night for the American teenager raped at knifepoint over the weekend.

A museum cataloguing the Troubles era in Derry is to open with the help of grant aid from the Government, it was confirmed today.

Journalist and civil rights campaigner Eamonn McCann is to run for Westminster, it emerged today.

A man described today how he heard a shot from an Official IRA gunman before he heard British army fire in the Bogside on Bloody Sunday.

A former Provo today described how he saw a soldier fire twice, possibly hitting a young man in the stomach on Bloody Sunday.

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

Relatives of those killed on Bloody Sunday have defended Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams' no-show at the mass rally to mark its 30th anniversary.

Thousands of people are gathering in Derry to retrace the route of the Bloody Sunday march 30 years ago.

Speakers at the march which became Bloody Sunday were fired on "directly" and had to lie down to save their lives, it was claimed today.

Martin McGuinness today met with lawyers in advance of his testimony to the Bloody Sunday Inquiry.

One-time civil rights figurehead Bernadette McAliskey went into the witness box at the Bloody Sunday Inquiry today to recall the shootings three decades ago which almost claimed her own life.

A retired Scottish police superintendent who witnessed Bloody Sunday from the walls of Derry today described hearing two long bursts of automatic gunfire before troops opened up with rifles.

A woman today told the Saville Inquiry that her coat suffered scorch holes on Bloody Sunday when a bullet shot past her.

A man fleeing the carnage on Bloody Sunday told IRA men at the scene that British soldiers were trying to kill civil rights marchers, the Saville Inquiry heard today.

A man claimed today he heard gunfire in the minutes after Bloody Sunday which he believed was ‘‘the IRA having a go’’.

Bullets fired from Derry’s historic walls narrowly missed then MP Bernadette Devlin as she started to speak to civil rights supporters on Bloody Sunday, it was claimed today.

Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness was today described standing ‘‘shocked and disbelieving’’ in Londonderry’s Bogside in the aftermath of Bloody Sunday.

One of the youths shot dead on Bloody Sunday pleaded with people to back off from a confrontation with troops earlier that day, the inquiry into the killings heard today.

A former British serviceman, who took part in the march that turned into Bloody Sunday, today told the Saville Inquiry that troops were ordered to fire when the crowd had their backs turned.