Report: UVF members considering buying guns

Members of a major loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland are considering buying guns only months after they were supposed to have disarmed, it emerged today.

Members of a major loyalist paramilitary group in the North are considering buying guns only months after they were supposed to have disarmed, it emerged today.

A watchdog group blamed the leadership of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) for sanctioning the murder of a former supporter and for allowing members to gather intelligence on dissident republicans.