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A mum of four who fled Belfast after dissident republicans threatened to kill her and her partner says she’s now lost her kids as a result.
THE family of a Catholic man killed by the British army in north Belfast almost 50 years ago has renewed its call for an apology.
BBC News Published image captionViolet Sloan in her uniform when she was a volunteer for the Air Raid Precautions Violet Sloan was 16-years-old when she heard the "terrifying" noise of the air raid sirens during the Belfast Blitz in 1941. Almost 1,000 people were killed when German bombers attacked. Around 2,500 were injured and about 100,000 people were left homeless in the aftermath of the attacks. Eighty years later, Violet remembers the loud sounds of explosions, the house shaking and everyone in the streets crying after the bombing. "We heard this terrific bomb - it was absolutely ter...