Soldiers

Man fails in bid to overturn conviction for murder during Troubles

Leading organiser from the Northern Ireland Veterans Movement, Paul Young (left) and Northern Ireland Veterans Commissioner, David Johnstone, speak to the media outside Belfast Crown Court where former paratrooper known as Soldier F has been found not guilty of committing two murders and five attempted murders on Bloody Sunday in Londonderry in 1972. Soldier F, who cannot be identified, was accused of murdering James Wray and William McKinney when members of the Parachute Regiment shot dead 13 civil rights protesters on the streets of Londonderry on January 30 1972

'The veteran community in NI welcome today’s outcome': David Johnstone

The arrest of Jason Savage. Chilling footage shows a Muslim convert who dubbed himself 'Lone Wolf' carrying out reconnaissance trips as he plotted terror attacks in Birmingham.

Muslim extremist convert plotted terror attacks in chilling video

Four Provisional IRA members – Kevin Barry O’Donnell, 21, Sean O’Farrell, 23, Peter Clancy, 19, and Daniel Vincent, 20 – were shot dead by soldiers in Clonoe in February 1992, minutes after they had carried out a gun attack on Coalisland RUC station

Clonoe ambush ruling slammed as being 'based on no evidence whatsoever'

Morning View

Editorial: To the delighted enemies of the West, we all seem weak

Albert Kirk, a cameraman, at the Korean War memorial in the Garden of Remembrance in Belfast City Hall on Remembrance Day after the 11 two-minute silence. Pic by Ben Lowry November 11 2024

At Remembrance Day in Belfast, a cameraman thinks of the Korean veterans

Mary Lamb left 'battered and bruised' after 'climbing' the Three Peaks

DUP representatives laid a wreath at the war memorial in Londonderry this morning marking the 80th Anniversary of the D-Day landings.

NI’s politicians mark D-Day sacrifice

A British Army soldier on lookout in the Falls Road area of Belfast. Philip Barden, from legal firm Devonshires, has welcomed new laws to deal with the legacy of the Troubles

Legacy Act 'will allow relatives of soldiers who died in NI to seek answers'

Thousands have evacuated their homes due to a wildfire in La Palma

Thousands evacuated from La Palma as wildfire blazes

Yevgeny Prigozhin (right) with Vladimir Putin

Who is Yevgeny Prigozhin? Exiled Wagner Group leader breaks silence

A member of Wagner group stands guard in a street in the city of Rostov-on-Don

Breaking Russia uprising: ‘Soon we will have new President’ says Wagner Group

Russian President Vladimir Putin.

‘Betrayal’ - Vladimir Putin reacts to Wagner Group rebellion in Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin launched the invasion of Ukraine more than a year ago

Breaking Russian mercenary group plot to remove Vladimir Putin

Trooping the Colour takes place on Saturday, June 17

Met Office weather forecast for Trooping the Colour ceremony

King Charles in front of The Flying Scotsman at Pickering Station

King Charles making several major changes to Trooping the Colour
Trooping the Colour is a key event in the royal calendar each year. This year’s event is of extra significance as it marks the first Trooping the Colour for King Charles since he became monarch in September last year.
Sam Johnson

Members of the Royal family on Buckingham Palace balcony including the Prince and Princess of Wales. Image: Simon James Smith

Trooping the Colour 2023: Buckingham Palace balcony line-up

King Charles has decided to ride in Trooping the Colour, the first time in 30 years (Pic:Getty)

How to watch Trooping the Colour 2023 - BBC announce full details

Trooping the Colour is a high-precision military parade (image: Getty Images)

Trooping the Colour 2023: Everything you need to know

King Charles III and Queen Camilla on the balcony of Buckingham Palace following the coronation on May 6.

King Charles makes major change to Trooping of the Colour ceremony

Three soldiers fainted during the Colonel’s Review at Horse Guards Parade in London today

Prince William speaks out as soldiers faint during rehearsals

Ukraine War: What is the Victory Day parade in Russia, what did Vladimir Putin say about the west?

What is Victory Day in Russia & what did Vladimir Putin say?

St Quentin, France, towards the end of WWI. Image: Imperial War Museum

The Roamer: Unnoticed homes for heroes with oft forgotten tenants

Prince Harry's memoir spare

Bloodsoaked copies of Prince Harry memoir Spare sell for huge sum

An early morning rehearsal of the coronation took place in London

Morning rehearsal of King Charles’ coronation takes place in London

D-Day veteran Joe Cattini has died aged 100

Breaking One of Britain’s last D-Day veterans Joe Cattini dies aged 100

28th October 1914: British soldiers lined up in a narrow trench during World War I. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

World War One medals found in bin bag saved from incinerator
World War One medals found in a bin bag have been saved from incineration by the waste management staff at a Derbyshire recycling centre
Patrick Hollis

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visit a a military facility

Russia's chilling warning to 'London' after Volodymyr Zelenskyy visit

President Zelensky to visit the UK for the first time since Russian invasion - everything we know so far

President Zelensky to visit the UK - everything we know so far

DS Chris, DS Foxy, DS Billy And DS Rudy

Monday: SAS: Who Dares Wins – Jungle Hell (Channel 4, 9pm)

Rescuers gather at the site of a plane crash in Pokhara after an airplane crashed with 72 people on board in Nepal

40 people dead as aircraft crash-lands near Nepal airport

Harry, Duke of Sussex, appeared on CBS late night talk show The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday evening (US time)

Harry addresses Taliban controversy on Late Show appearance in US

A resin model of a sculpture illustrating the WW1 Christmas Truce football match is pictured during a photocall inside the remains of St Luke's Church in Liverpool

The Christmas Truce: how did it start and what happened?

An elderly woman grieves next to the grave of a Ukrainian soldier in the city of Lviv

Ian Ellis: Christmas will be an extremely poignant time for countless Ukrainians

Giffoine plot up for sale situated on the south west of the Channel Island of Guernsey overlooking Gannet Rock

Former Nazi encampment in Guernsey goes up for sale

The Queen lying in state in Westminster Hall.

Royal guard faints next to coffin during Queen’s lying-in-state period

The Queen is lying in state

Crowds queue through the night to see Queen Elizabeth II lying in state

A still from the video posted by a Ukrainian soldier

War in Ukraine: missile made in Northern Ireland takes down Russian drone

Letter to the editor

Tony Blair is in no place to call anyone else ‘irresponsible and an idiot’

Irish foreign minister Simon Coveney has co chaired legacy talks with Brandon Lewis. Ireland should open its records
Why was extradition blocked at every turn? Why is Dublin not ready to admit to its grubby past?

Time for Dublin to stop lecturing on legacy and shine light on its own past

Ulster American Folk Park marks American Independence Day

Events include a reading of the Declaration of Independence

Ulster American Folk Park to celebrate American Indepence Day this weekend

Sir Captain Tom Moore’s funeral service takes place today

Second World War-era plane in flypast for Captain Sir Tom Moore’s funeral

Top price bull – Robert Arthur and Son of Knowehead Road, Templepatrick, Co Antrim, paid a price of 2450 guineas at Balmoral for this bull at a sale held at Balmoral in October 1987. The March 1986 bull was offered by John Patterson and Son of Donaghadee, Co Down. Pictured with the bull is Edmund Arthur, left, and Spencer Gilliland of Dalgety Agriculture. The company made an award to the buyers and sellers of the top priced bulls at the sale. Picture: Farming Life archives

BYGONE DAYS: Union calls on support for farmers impacted by flooding

Kenny Donaldson of South East Fermanagh Foundation, which supports victims of terrorism. He is seen at St Marys College, West Belfast in 2015 in front of a quilt made by family members from Fermanagh that lost loved ones in the Troubles.
Picture Colm O'Reilly Press Eye

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The aftermath of the IRA Abercorn bomb in 1972, in which two people died, and hundreds were injured, many of them gravely so, with lost limbs. But past terrorist attacks in which people were maimed but in which no-one died would not be investigated under the legacy structures, while possibly hundreds of former RUC officers would face ‘non criminal misconduct’ probes

Ben Lowry: The scandal of ex RUC officers alone facing legacy ‘misconduct’ inves...

The moment in the House of Commons when an amendment in favour of same sex marriage for Northern Ireland was passed by 383 votes to 73 votes. The DUP MPs Jeffrey Donaldson, second from right, and Gavin Robinson, right, were tellers against the amendment. July 9 2019. Legacy was also debated at length. Screengrab from Parliament TV

Ben Lowry: Westminster debate did not mention the legacy risk to ex RUC from pol...

Penny Mordaunt outside the Houses of Parliament in central London. Photo: Ian Nicholson/PA Wire

Penny Mordaunt pledges to end ‘chilling’ probes into NI veterans

The Belfast News Letter of April 6 1739 (April 17 in the modern calendar)

Reported On This Day 280 Years Ago (April 17 1739): Soldiers in Dublin charged w...

IRA aimed ‘heavy and sustained fire’ at soldiers, Ballymurphy Massacre inquest h...

Thirteen people died on Bloody Sunday, with a 14th passing away five months later

Bloody Sunday: Soldiers to learn their fate on prosecutions

TUV leader Jim Allister

Bloody Sunday: Soldiers being pursued while terrorists go free, says Jim Alliste...

Gavin Williamson MP

Bloody Sunday prosecution: Ministry of Defence will support ‘Soldier F’

Families of those killed on Bloody Sunday march through the Bogside in Londonderry ahead of the announcement on prosecutions. Pic: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Bloody Sunday: Former soldier to face prosecution over killings

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