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THE DUP has indicated that it has no plans to break off engagement with the representatives of loyalist paramilitaries who remain silent on an escalating criminal feud and drug arrests.

THE DUP has been urged to end engagement with the representatives of loyalist paramilitary groups in the wake of threats they may their ceasefires.

THE controversial appointment of a spokesman for a body representing loyalists to the board of the Agrifood and Biosciences Institute (Afbi) is to be raised today by a Stormont scrutiny committee.

When the Loyalist Communities Council (LCC) was launched in 2015, with the involvement of the three main related paramilitary groups, the UVF, the UDA and the Red Hand Commando, the objectives it set out were praiseworthy.

THE group which says it represent loyalist paramilitaries has urged people not to transfer votes to non-unionist candidates in Thursday's European election.

The family of a man shot dead by loyalists in 1976 say they have been failed by the Irish Government and gardaí.

IN 1994 the IRA would call their first ceasefire and six weeks later the Combined Loyalist Military Command also announced a cessation of violence.

FLAGS representing a loyalist paramilitary group and inscribed with an Irish language slogan have been flown in a Co Down town.

This week's loyalist statement, timed to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, has been met with a variety of responses, including suspicion and cynicism. Progressive loyalism also deserves encouragement and prayerful support, say Rev Steve Stockman and Fr Martin Magill

THE family of a forestry worker murdered 41 years ago have vowed to continue their fight for justice after they lost a legal appeal for the Irish Government to establish two committees of inquiry into his killing.