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At least 18 soldiers have been killed in two booby-trap bomb attacks at Warrenpoint, South Down, close to the border with the Irish Republic.
It is the highest death toll suffered by the British Army in a single incident since it arrived in Northern Ireland to restore order a decade ago.
The IRA are believed to be behind the attack.
It came only hours after the Queen's cousin, Lord Louis Mountbatten, was killed in an IRA bomb attack in Donegal Bay in the Irish Republic.
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Northern Ireland's Police Ombudsman is due to publish his report into the alleged involvement of a priest in a 1972 IRA bombing in County Londonderry.
Nine people, including an eight-year-old girl, were killed in the village of Claudy in one of the most controversial incidents of the Troubles.
There was an alleged deal between the UK government and the Catholic Church not to arrest Father James Chesney.
Fr Chesney was moved across the Irish border by the Church after the attack.
The priest, who died in 1980, had been the curate in Cullion, a small parish in County Londonderry.
No-one convicted
The Bishop of Derry, Neil Farren, responding to rumours that Fr Chesney was a member of the South Derry Brigade of the
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At least 27 people are feared dead in the worst paramilitary bombing since the start of the Northern Ireland conflict three decades ago.
The blast in the market town of Omagh, County Tyrone, at around 1500 BST on Saturday, left more than 100 people injured or maimed.
People who survived the car bomb blast in a busy shopping area of the town have been describing scenes of carnage with the dead an
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A booby-trap bomb has been discovered under the car of a civilian security worker in Cookstown, County Tyrone.
It is believed the device partially exploded as the man drove away from his home in the Sweep Road area of the town. He was not injured in the attack.
The man is a former police officer who currently works as a guard at the town's PSNI station.
PSNI Chief Supt Skuce said those who planted the bomb had "scant regard" for human life.
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A retired Scottish judge has agreed to conduct an independent review into an RAF Chinook helicopter crash on the Mull of Kintyre.
BBC Scotland has learned that Lord Philip is expected to lead the inquiry into the 1994 accident which killed all 29 people on board.
The RAF found the two pilots guilty of gross negligence for flying too fast and too low in thick fog.
The pilots' families have campaigned to have the ruling overturned.
The Chinook Mark 2 helicopter crashed on 2 June 1994 en route from Northern Ireland to Inverness in the worst RAF helicopter accident in peacetime.
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Terrorist jailed for soldier's murder.
Declan Duffy, 36, has been jailed for the murder of Sergeant Michael Newman in 1992
An Irish republican terrorist has been jailed for life after he admitted the murder of a British soldier outside an Army recruitment office 18 years ago.
Sergeant Michael Newman, 34, was gunned down by the Irish National Liberation Army, an IRA splinter group, in Derby city centre on April 14, 1992.
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Eight soldiers on ceremonial duty have been killed in two IRA bomb blasts in central London. The first blast, in Hyde Park, killed two soldiers and injured 23 others and the second explosion, in Regents Park, less than two hours later killed six soldiers instantly and injured a further 24 people.
The IRA admitted carrying out the attacks in a statement echoing Margaret Thatcher's declaration of war on Argentina over the disputed Falklands.
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Recent Forum PostsI saw Stevie's poem a while back but didn't comment on it as any further words words would have been superfluous. It really said it all.:(:(:( 
You are right Jock, Cliff arrived on Saturday and was shot on Sunday, Big Stevie once wrote a great poem in Cliff's honour, should be in the poetry section somewhere.
rest in peace soldier
We will remember them
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