Iconic Bloody Sunday bishop to receive freedom of Derry

A retired Catholic bishop who waved a blood-stained white handkerchief during Bloody Sunday is to be awarded the freedom of the city where the shootings took place.

Dr Edward Daly provided one of the grimly iconic images of the Troubles as he brandished the rag while attempting to help a fatally injured civil rights protester in Derry, in January 1972.