Row rages over plans for North

Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionists were today accused of promoting a grubby agenda on the Government’s security plans for Northern Ireland and equality.

As unionists continued to protest at plans to scrap the battalions of the Royal Irish Regiment based in the North and the tearing down of military fortifications, SDLP member John Dallat urged the British government not to give in to the DUP’s demands.