Cumbria killer's family 'would apologise to victims'

Relatives of gun spree killer Derrick Bird would apologise to his victims' families "if they had the strength", a close friend said today as memorial services were held to remember the dead.

The Rev Jim Marshall, curate of St Michael's Church in Lamplugh, said the man the family had known was "not the person they saw on Wednesday", and that they have "dreadful sorrow within them and dreadful sadness within them".