UDA 'sticking up treasury with cash demands'

Loyalist terrorist godfathers in the North are trying to hold the British treasury to ransom with demands for a financial package, it was claimed today.

As Northern Ireland Office Minister David Hanson prepared to meet representatives of the Ulster Defence Association at Stormont later today, SDLP Assembly member John Dallat launched a scathing attack on the British government, accusing it of offering sweeteners to loyalist and republican elements.