A British army captain has claimed that the soldiers who killed 13 unarmed civilians on Bloody Sunday in Derry would never have opened fire without provocation.

A loyalist terror group seen as a cover for the Ulster Defence Association tonight admitted raking a north Belfast community centre with gunfire.

A device has exploded outside an RUC station in Co Tyrone, gardai said.

A man is expected to appear before Magistrates in the North this morning in connection with a grenade attack on Strabane RUC station last Saturday.

A man shot in a Northern Ireland pub had served a prison sentence following the murder of a young Catholic mother nine years ago, it emerged today.

The RUC is investigating an explosion in Derry overnight.

Army bomb disposal experts are examining a suspect device found at the rear of an RUC station in Co Derry.