A loyalist paramilitary feud which claimed the lives of four people in Belfast this summer could erupt again, a report monitoring terror groups warned today.

Northern Ireland’s most senior policeman Hugh Orde was today challenged to acknowledge his officers made mistakes in allowing loyalist paramilitaries to take over a Belfast housing estate where families were forced to flee their homes.

Detectives investigating the loyalist paramilitary murder of a father-of-three will tomorrow set up vehicle checkpoints in the area where he was gunned down a week ago.

Democratic Unionist leader the Rev Ian Paisley intervened tonight in a bid to prevent further rioting in Belfast linked to a loyalist paramilitary feud.

Serious rioting in north Belfast amid an on-going loyalist paramilitary feud have resulted in 40 police officers being injured.

The same loyalist killers are suspected of carrying out two murders in a deepening paramilitary feud, it emerged tonight.

Homes were raided in Belfast today by police probing a loyalist paramilitary feud that has claimed three lives.

Police in Belfast were today investigating the possibility that an overnight murder attempt at a house in the city may have been part of a bitter loyalist paramilitary feud.

A senior loyalist politician in Northern Ireland challenged the British government today to have him arrested if it believed his party had a say over what the Ulster Volunteer Force and Red Hand Commando do.

The Progressive Unionist Party, linked to the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force and Red Hand Commandos, has been given a week today to make a case to the British government on why they should be given their Northern Ireland Assembly allowances.

The SDLP is urging the British government to review the UVF ceasefire following the murder of two men in Belfast in the past two weeks.

A man murdered in Belfast as part of a loyalist feud was not a member of one of the organisations involved in the power struggle, it was claimed tonight.

Detectives tonight named a man murdered by a gang as part of a loyalist feud.

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A loyalist paramilitary chief was under protection tonight after rival gunmen in Belfast murdered a teenager and left a man fighting for his life.

A Belfast loyalist accused of attempted murder has been freed from jail following a prosecution decision to drop the charges against him.

Two men have been arrested in Belfast in connection with the murder of loyalist Jameson Lockhart on Friday.

Two men were arrested today for questioning about the murder of a loyalist who was shot dead in Belfast last week.

Fears are growing of renewed warfare between rival loyalist gangs in Belfast.

FEARS of a new shooting war between rival loyalist gangs on the streets of Belfast at the height of the Protestant marching season intensified last night after the murder of a man in the east of the city.

Fears of a new shooting war between rival loyalist gangs on the streets of Belfast at the height of the Protestant marching season intensified tonight after the murder of a man in the east of the city.

The name of the man shot dead in east Belfast this morning recently appeared in loyalist graffiti on the Shankill Road.