The SDLP is asking the British Attorney General to review what it says were overly lenient sentences passed on two loyalists who used the police database to gather information on people in Tyrone and south Antrim.

A number of republicans in the North have been told their details are in the hands of unionist paramilitaries, it was claimed today.

A MANAGER at a major Northern Ireland bus builder which last week won an €11.4 million order from Bus Éireann has appeared in court accused of being a Loyalist terrorist.