Pullout brings North troop levels to 30-year low

TROOP levels in the North are about to drop to the lowest level in 30 years.

The Royal Welch Fusiliers, based in Bessbrook on the south Armagh border, are starting to pull out and will be gone before the end of the week.

Their departure will see troop levels in the North fall below 9,000, lower than at any time since the beginning of the 1970s.