The Times highlights the 'closure' achieved by Lord Saville's Bloody Sunday report and David Cameron's apology, while its leader urges against prosecutions Photograph: Public Domain'Truth and reconciliation' is the Independent's take on the report, leading 10 pages – the largest coverage afforded by a national newspaper to the report – of analysis and reports Photograph: Public DomainThe Guardian declares '38 years on, justice at last', with a photograph of John Kelly, whose brother Michael was killed on Bloody Sunday. Simon Winchester – who covered the events in 1972 – adds a colourful description of the scenes in Derry Photograph: Public Domain
The Daily Mail leads with the death of two servicemen in Afghanistan who had previously served in Northern Ireland to illustrate what it declares the 'True face of our soldiers' Photograph: Public DomainCompeting for space with a mortgage story, the Telegraph's coverage leads with a photograph of people cheering in Derry at David Cameron's speech. Its leader is adamant that prosecutions would be in no one's interest Photograph: Public DomainLeading with David Cameron’s apology, the Irish Times’s front-page story focuses on 'The day they said sorry' Photograph: Public DomainThe Belfast Telegraph’s front page uses a quote from David Cameron rather than the Saville report, and is the only paper to give prominence to the report’s conclusion that deputy first minister Martin McGuinness was probably armed with a machine-gun on the fateful day Photograph: Public Domain
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