DERBY EVENING TELEGRAPH Thursday December 24 1 NEWS BRITAIN IRA promise a Christmas truce NORTHERN IRELAND: The IRA has announced a day Christmas concerning hostilities in Ulster starting today the statement issued in Dublin made no mention IRA’s bombing

IN BRIEF Fears for truce THE Northern Ireland peace process was in crisis today after loyalists tried to kill a top republican. Eddie Copeland, 25, escaped with leg injuries in a car bombing in north Belfast, apparently in revenge for the IRA shooting

6 SUNDAY PEOPLE June 1 4 1998 TORIES SMASH ULSTER TRUCE THE fragile all-party truce over Northern Ireland is on Thursday as Tory leader William orders his troops vote against Premier Tony Blair's peace proposals in Commons is angry that Mr Blair has linked

Blasts end Xmas truce in Ulster TWO blasts yesterday ended the Christmas truce in Northern Ireland. The coffee-jar bombs were thrown at the Rosemount police station in Londonderry but there were no reports of injuries.

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wave of bomb- aitione could play their Inas has turned the Pro- pan in working out the future far Northern visional IRA truce into Ireland. a "Mockery and ro travesty." Mr. Merlyn 'b et th e ev ent s at the lam Rees, the Northern few days are a meeker, Ireland

that unless there marked change In lie of the security forces mmediate future. c to reconsider our posi• rding the truce." orthern Ireland Office $t night making no sts about the violence In erlyn Rees. Secretary for Northern Ireland. night: "I make it

tor sear sod obviously to seam with U. :Cif7l! iT - How bong have rat been to ILL countn be asked when It stated ergs • truce of Ireland. - never been out of the country' r eplied John uodlgn•ntly tors to Count• Durham. gee: not !relined I'•e never been

of fires, and this man was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment, but was liberated before his time was up due to the truce with Ireland. Supt. Mc- Lean had a good deal of work in connection with the South Queeneferry murder in 1942 in association with

the campaign of violenc e against British "oppression." The decision ha , been taken in the face of calls for u truce in Northern Ireland. In a statement from Dublin. the Provisionals rejected the British White Paper prowls:lls on the future of Ulster