Britain will honour its €1bn pledge for North

BRITAIN’s Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg last night pledged the North’s fragile political stability would not be put at risk by London’s massive spending cuts.

Mr Clegg said the €1bn promised to the Stormont power- sharing assembly as part of the devolution of justice deal would be honoured despite his government imposing €100bn worth of cuts.

With MI5 warning dissident republican groups like the Real IRA are preparing to launch a major campaign, security was tight as the Liberal Democrat leader joined Tánaiste Mary Coughlan and Northern Secretary Owen Paterson for a meeting of the North/ South parliamentary forum in Newcastle, Co Down.