'Clear and rising risk' of security threat from Loyalist discontent 

Police moving in on Loyalist rioters during a fortnight of upheaval in April. The UK parliament's intelligence and security committee has hilighted the growing threat of loyalist terrorism. File picture: Alan Lewis

There is a “clear and rising risk” that discontent within the loyalist community could escalate into a “renewed national security threat”, a British parliamentary body has said.

The intelligence and security committee of the British parliament said dissident republican groups continued to pose the most serious terror threat in the North.