Loyalists angry over jail conditions

LOYALISTS have threatened to take the British Government to court over conditions for paramilitary prisoners at a high security Northern Ireland jail.

Representatives of Ulster Volunteer Force and Red Hand Commando inmates held under new £7 million arrangements at Maghaberry Prison claimed they were being discriminated against.

Loyalists and republicans at the bitterly divided complex near Lisburn, Co Antrim, have been separated amid major security fears.