Freed loyalist terrorist Johnny “Mad Dog” Adair will quit Britain in a bid to stay alive, it was claimed tonight.

Former Loyalist paramilitary terror boss Johnny “Mad Dog” Adair was released from prison in the North today.

The Ulster Defence Association wants its former west Belfast commander, Johnny Adair, to leave the North when he is released from jail later this month.

The Ulster Defence Association was challenged tonight to guarantee their guns have fallen silent forever.

Northern Secretary Paul Murphy has confirmed Sinn Féin and the Progressive Unionist Party will have their British government grants withheld as punishment for alleged ongoing activities by the IRA and Ulster Volunteer Force.

More than 2,000 people have been questioned about the murder of a loyalist paramilitary chief in Belfast a year ago, police said tonight.

A 20-year-old man is due in court today charged with attempting to murder three people at the offices of the SDLP and with membership of a terrorist organisation.

THE Ulster Defence Association said yesterday its members were disillusioned by the response others to its recent ceasefire.

A leading loyalist today urged nationalists to reserve their judgment on the Ulster Defence Association’s ceasefire until next year.

Police in the North have renewed their appeal for information about the murders of UDA men John Gregg and Robert Carson six months ago.

LOYALIST terror group the Ulster Freedom Fighters yesterday issued a warning to the wife of jailed paramilitary boss Johnny “Mad Dog” Adair to stay out of Northern Ireland.

Six men have now been arrested in Lancashire and Belfast today by police investigating the murder of a loyalist paramilitary commander in Northern Ireland.

Three people were arrested today by police investigating the murder of a loyalist paramilitary in Northern Ireland.

Loyalist terrorists today denied issuing death threats against the family of murdered Belfast paramilitary Alan McCullough.

DEATH threats have been issued against the family of murdered Belfast loyalist Alan McCullough, it was claimed yesterday.

Death threats have been issued against the family of murdered Belfast loyalist Alan McCullough, it was claimed today.

A man was today remanded in custody charged with murdering rogue paramilitary Alan McCullough.

A top Belfast loyalist was charged tonight with murdering rogue paramilitary Alan McCullough.

Police in the North have arrested a 33-year-old man in connection with the murder of loyalist Alan McCullough, whose body was found in a shallow grave outside Belfast last week.

Murdered loyalist Alan McCullough was a military intelligence spy who double-crossed both factions of a feuding terror organisation, his killers claimed tonight.

The Ulster Defence Association commander suspected of sanctioning the murder of rogue loyalist Alan McCullough has gone into hiding, it emerged tonight.

Police in the North have arrested a man in connection with the murder of loyalist Alan McCullough, whose body was found in a shallow grave north of Belfast yesterday.

Supporters of Johnny Adair today challenged the reasons given by former comrades in the Ulster Defence Association as to why they murdered a 21-year-old loyalist.

POLICE hunting for missing loyalist Alan McCullough found a body on the outskirts of north Belfast yesterday.

The brother of a loyalist who is missing - presumed dead - in Belfast says he now believes the UDA deliberately lied to him to persuade him it was safe to return home.

Loyalist paramilitaries fired shots at the hideaway of jailed Ulster terror boss Johnny Adair’s exiled wife, police said tonight.

Four alleged members of the Ulster Defence Association have been arrested in Belfast in connection with the murder of UDA commander John Gregg in February.

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

The loyalists paramilitary group the Ulster Defence Association was tonight under pressure to prove it was genuine over its declaration of a 12-month ceasefire to boost the political process.

The loyalist paramilitary group, the Ulster Defence Association, was today due to reject drug dealing and other criminal activity in a statement which was being billed as the most important for the organisation in 30 years.

A BELFAST judge yesterday refused to overturn the prison sentence of Johnny “Mad Dog” Adair, Northern Ireland’s notorious Loyalist leader.

Rival loyalist paramilitary organisations in Northern Ireland are holding talks in a major new attempt to forge a united front, it emerged tonight.

A 20-year-old man appeared in court today on loyalist terrorist charges linked to the flight of Johnny Adair's wife and associates from Belfast to Scotland earlier this week.

Johnny “Mad Dog” Adair’s exiled wife and his close associate John White must never be allowed back to Northern Ireland, loyalists said last night.

Hopefully the words of the North’s Chief Constable Hugh Orde will be prophetic. He said the flight of Johnny “Mad Dog” Adair’s associates to Scotland will help calm the situation.

Scottish police have released the four people they were questioning after former UDA members loyal to renegade commander Johnny Adair fled Belfast overnight.

Northern Secretary Paul Murphy has told loyalists in Belfast that they must choose between gangsterism and politics.

Thousands of people have turned out in north Belfast for the funeral of John Gregg, the UDA's south-east Antrim commander, who was shot dead along with another UDA man on Saturday.

Johnny Adair's wife and family and his close associate, John White, have been forced to flee their homes after overnight fighting in the Shankill Road.

Thousands of loyalists were expected to attend today’s funeral of murdered UDA leader John Gregg.

The funeral takes place in the North later today of one of the two loyalists murdered on Saturday.

JAILED loyalist chief Johnny “Mad Dog” Adair was virtually on his own yesterday as associates in west Belfast moved to distance themselves in a bitter feud which has left four men dead.

The Loyalist Volunteer Force has issued a statement distancing itself from renegade UDA commander Johnny Adair.