Loyalist feud ‘puts 150 lives at risk’

NEARLY 150 people have been warned their lives may be under threat from feuding loyalist paramilitaries.

The Independent Monitoring Commission (IMC) said the Ulster Volunteer Force’s latest shooting war with the rival Loyalist Volunteer Force, which left four men dead this summer, involved the worst violence it has ever investigated.

The four-man team’s new dossier accused the UVF of trying to wipe out the smaller organisation and claimed its political representatives in the Progressive Unionist Party had lost any control over it.