Trimble: Compensation proposal 'offensive'

Former Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble today denounced as “offensive” a proposal to offer financial compensation to the family of every person killed in the North's Troubles.

The plan for a £12,000 (€12,700) payment, believed to be a key proposal of an advisory group set up to deal with the legacy of violence in the North, has sparked controversy because it would be paid not only to families of victims of terrorism but also to relatives of dead IRA and loyalist militants.