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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Lance Corporal Matthew Wilson is learning to fly just a year after losing his leg in Afghanistan.

The 24-year-old, who now lives in Much Birch, is almost fully on his feet after 12 months of rehabilitation.

But his progress reached new heights this month when he was awarded a scholarship to fly a light aircraft.

L/Cpl Wilson spotted the Flying Scholarship for the Disabled offer while recovering ...

A group of Muslim women have laid a wreath at the National Memorial Arboretum in honour of those who died fighting for the UK in Afghanistan.

L/Cpl Jabron Hashmi, 24, from Bordesley Green, Birmingham, was the first British Muslim soldier to die in a Taliban attack in Helmand in July 2006.

On the anniversary weekend of his death four Muslim women paid their respects at the Staffordshire centre. The ceremony was organised by the Muslim Armed Forces Association.

It said 500 Muslims were currently serving in the British armed forces.
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A man appeared before magistrates on Wednesday charged with the murder of an Army sergeant 18 years ago, police said.

Sergeant Michael Newman, 34, was shot in the head as he walked from an Army careers office to his car in Derby in April 1992.
The Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) was believed to be responsible for the killing.

In 2004 Joseph Magee was jailed for 25 years after pleading guilty to Sgt Newman's murder on the ...