British MPs to debate restoration of SF allowances

British MPs are due to debate today whether to restore Sinn Féin's Westminster allowances, which are worth almost £500,000 (€728,000) annually to the party.

The allowances were suspended by the House of Commons last year in the wake of the £26.5m (€38.6m) Belfast bank heist and the murder of Robert McCartney, both of which were blamed on republicans.