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Bob helps Omagh victims' £1m battle
By CHRIS HUGHES

ROCK star Bob Geldof has backed a campaign to raise £1 million for the Omagh bomb victims' legal fight.
He said yesterday that the worst-ever bombing of Northern Ireland's Troubles was "our September 11".
The families of the 29 killed have raised £500,000 to mount a civil action against the alleged bombers.
But they need £1 million or more by the end of April to make it to court.
Bob was joined by Ulster's First Minister David Trimble, former Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Mandelson and boxing legend Barry McGuigan in calling for cash to help the families.
He said he was "appalled" by the lack response to the appeal so.
The star, whose 1985 Live Aid concert raised millions for the starving in Africa, said: "I'm appalled by the lack of out-pouring from our two countries, Britain and Ireland. When you consider what was donated in cash from Britain and Ireland to the victims of the atrocity in America and what these people have received in pursuit of justice, then it leads us all to shame.
He went on: "There are an awful lot of very wealthy Irish people in this country and in Ireland.
"I can't understand why they can't fund it, I can't understand why people who aren't wealth can't throw a few quid in the pot."
Two unborn children were among those killed when a Real IRA car bomb devastated Omagh on August 15, 1998.
Only one person has been brought to justice successfully.
Colm Murphy was sentenced in January to 14 years in jail at the Special Criminal Court in the Republic of Ireland for conspiracy to cause an explosion.