THE British Government was urged yesterday by the SDLP not to give in to Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionist’s “grubby” demands on demilitarisation.

Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionists were today accused of promoting a grubby agenda on the Government’s security plans for Northern Ireland and equality.

The appointment of a former director general of RTÉ to head Northern Ireland’s Equality Commission angered a senior unionist today.