I never desired to go into war zones. I never had any thought about it. It sort of just happened as part of the job.

Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.

I never desired to go into war zones. I never had any thought about it. It sort of just happened as part of the job.

There was no equal pay law when I started working. I was no different to any other woman in any other job at the time.

The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy.

On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.