TONY BLAIR redrafted an IRA statement at the prime minister’s country residence Chequers in the presence of Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams in 2003, a senior aide to the former British prime minister has revealed.

IT is hard to avoid the perception that US army reservist Lynndie England is being used as a scapegoat in the Iraqi prison abuse scandal.

The British government bowed under terrorist pressure by sanctioning a dangerous scheme of separating loyalist and republican prisoners at a Northern Ireland jail, a new report claimed today.

The investigation into the toxic packages sent to Cherie Blair and to a Scottish politician by so-called ‘‘tartan terrorists’’ was launched after a message received by the News of the World newspaper on Friday, it emerged today.