SINN Féin's Martin McGuinness yesterday laid a wreath at the site of the Battle of the Somme. The deputy first minister was visiting northern France on the second day of his two-day trip to World War One battlefields. On Wednesday, he was in Flanders in Belgium at the site of the Battle of Messines, where he also laid a wreath. Speaking at Thiepval Wood, Mr McGuinness said he had never envisaged visiting the Somme battlefield site as the north's deputy first minister and as a "proud Irish republican". He said the visit was part of an effort to recognise sol[...]