THE Northern peace process will be plunged even deeper into crisis if ex-paramilitary prisoners are allowed to sit on police scrutiny bodies before the IRA disbands, the British Government was warned last night.

The peace process will be plunged even deeper into crisis if ex-paramilitary prisoners are allowed to sit on police scrutiny bodies before the IRA disbands, the British government was warned tonight.

Northern Ireland faces a greater terrorist threat than at any time since the Omagh bomb atrocity, A police chief warned today.