Minor disturbances occurred at the annual Bloody Sunday commemoration march in Derry yesterday when a group of about 50 young teenagers broke away from the main march and threw stones and bottles at the Apprentice Boys memorial hall, which overlooks the Bogside.
The youths then threw stones and bottles at police officers who arrived at the scene and who sealed off Butcher Street leading from the city centre to the Bogside.
The disturbances took place as several thousand people were listening to speeches at Free Derry Corner in the Bogside following the march, held in memory of the 13 local men shot dead by British army paratroopers in Derry on January 30th, 1972, the event that became known as Bloody Sunday.
Relatives of the Bloody Sunday victims laid crosses and wreathes at the memorial plinth in Rossville Street, close to where most of the killings took place during an anti-internment march 35 years ago.
Addressing the crowd on behalf of the victims' families, John Wray, whose brother Jim was one of the Bloody Sunday dead, said that 10 years would have passed between when the Saville inquiry into the killings was announced and when the inquiry's findings would be published next year.