A policewoman attending the scene of a fatal stabbing in Derry was injured when her patrol was attacked by a mob, it emerged today.

A man in his twenties was stabbed early this morning on Little James Street in Derry city.

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.

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.

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.