LOYALISTS urged the British government yesterday to work with them to take the Ulster Defence Association down a purely political path.

Anti-agreement members of the Ulster Unionist Party have succeeded in calling an extraordinary meeting of the party’s ruling council to discuss disciplinary action taken against rebel MLAs Peter Weir and Pauline Armitage.

Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble has emerged from talks with Taoiseach Bertie Ahern in Dublin.