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Former Northern Ireland secretary Shaun Woodward insisted yesterday that letters sent to republican "on the runs" (OTRs) saying they weren't being chased had never been meant as amnesties.
During a heated Commons debate, Mr Woodward gave his assurance over a scheme that saw accused IRA bomber John Downey avoid prosecution last month.
Mr Downey stood accused of planting a car bomb that killed four Household Guard cavalrymen in Hyde Park in 1982.
KENNY MacASKILL looks at the depth of the corruption tolerated within the Scottish National Party and the efforts to keep it from public scrutiny
A new group within the NEU is preparing the labour movement for a conversation on Irish unity by arguing that true liberation must be rooted in working-class solidarity and anti-sectarianism, writes ROBERT POOLE
