Adair 'received salary from govt-funded scheme'

The British government has launched an inquiry into claims that renegade UDA commander Johnny Adair was paid a salary under an EU-funded community employment scheme last year.

Mr Adair, who was recently sent back to jail for his continuing involvement in paramilitarism, was apparently paid a salary for at least a month by a local community regeneration and reconciliation programme in his Lower Shankill stronghold.