Patrick McVeigh was fatally shot in the Riverdale Park area of West Belfast in May 1972 (PSNI/PA) The case of a former British soldier ... on Bloody Sunday in Londonderry in January 1972.

LONDON - A British man who had planned an attack on an air force base in northern England with a homemade bomb using explosives taken from fireworks was on Friday jailed for nearly 40 years.

A British man who had planned an attack on an air force base in northern England with a homemade bomb using explosives taken from fireworks was on Friday jailed for nearly 40 years.