Loyalist paramilitaries urged to give up crime

Loyalist paramilitaries have to end criminality if their representatives' words are to mean anything, SDLP leader Mark Durkan insisted today.

The Foyle MP welcomed the Ulster Political Research Group's criticism of DUP leader the Rev Ian Paisley's comments at an Independent Orange Order Twelfth of July demonstration that Sinn Féin would be in government "over (his community's) dead bodies".