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Stakeknife has previously been named as 73-year-old west Belfast man Freddie Scappaticci (centre in a file image from 1987) who denies he was Stakeknife, or a British spy. Photograph: Pacemaker
Stakeknife investigation: PPS decides not to charge four people

Northern Correspondent Four people, including two former MI5 officers, will not face charges in connection with an investigation into the agent code(...)

Pictures of the victims of Bloody Sunday being carried through the crowd of thousands after the 25th anniversary march for Bloody Sunday in Derry. Photograph: Brian Little/PA
Bloody Sunday: Decision not to prosecute soldiers under review

Lawyers representing the families of nine of those killed on Bloody Sunday have asked the North’s Public Prosecution Service (PPS) to review its decis(...)

Linda Nash whose youngest brother William Nash died on Bloody Sunday with Eamonn McCann outside the city hotel. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire
The Irish Times view on the Bloody Sunday decision: A massacre that still reverberates

There is understandable disappointment in Derry at the decision of the Northern Ireland Public Prosecution Service to charge just one former British s(...)