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

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

Detectives investigating the murder of 21-year-old loyalist Alan McCullough today arrested a man in connection with the killing.

SUPPORTERS of jailed loyalist Johnny Adair yesterday challenged the reasons given by the Ulster Defence Association for its killing of Alan McCullough.

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

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

GANGLAND battles for supremacy among rival terror organisations who control Protestant areas of the city have left 14 men dead in the last two-and-a-half years.

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

BR>SUPPORTERS of Johnny ‘Mad Dog’ Adair yesterday defied Ulster Defence Association demands they should withdraw support for the jailed loyalist terror boss.

Supporters of Johnny Adair today defied Ulster Defence Association demands that they should withdraw their support for the jailed loyalist terror boss.

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

The leadership of the Ulster Defence Association has warned its rank-and-file members to isolate their former colleagues who are suspected of murdering 45-year-old John Gregg on Saturday night.

Two men were today being questioned about the murder of top loyalist John Gregg.

THE murder of UDA boss John Gregg was set up by other Glasgow Rangers supporters, it was claimed last night.

Two men were arrested today by detectives investigating the murders of UDA boss John Gregg and another man in the docks area of Belfast, police said.

Fears that a loyalist feud is spiralling out of control increased today after top loyalist John “Grugg” Gregg and a second man were murdered in a shooting in the docks area of Belfast.

Questioning of a retired policeman at the Bloody Sunday inquiry was halted by chairman Lord Saville today after a lawyer accused the witness of conspiring with another officer to concoct evidence.