SINN FÉIN is accused of trying to rewrite history with the recreation of a famous Catholic civil rights march in the North.

PORTADOWN Orangemen have been banned from marching on the town’s flashpoint Garvaghy Road on Sunday.

The Parades Commission is due to issue its ruling on the contentious Drumcree march later today.

The nationalist Garvaghy Road Residents' Coalition has denied reports it is involved in high level talks to pave the way for an Orange march through the area this year.

Breandan MacCionnaith, the chairman of the Garvaghy Road Residents Committee, has accused the British Government of politicising the loyalist marching season by establishing a review of the Parades Commission.

Two leading spokesmen for nationalist residents' groups in the North have been sent bullets and written loyalist threats through the mail.

Loyalists have pledged no let up in their protest campaign against the parents and children of the Holy Cross Primary School in north Belfast.

A haul of loyalist guns was seized tonight in Northern Ireland amid claims that new efforts to end the tense Orange Order stand off at Drumcree would fail.