IRA terrorist gets 25 years

Expectations of an early, open-ended but temporary IRA ceasefire remained high in Belfast and Dublin. At the Old Bailey Sean McNulty, 26, an English-born construction worker, was jailed for 25 years for taking part in an IRA plot to bomb oil and gas depots on Tyneside. In London part of the West End was sealed off after a bomb warning from a telephone caller using a recognised codeword. Pages 2, 6