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HISTORICAL FACTS: Uvf - Caught on Camera

No evidence of collusion in UVF bombings of Dublin and Monaghan

The final Operation Kenova report also said there does not appear to be ‘any realistic opportunities’ for a fresh investigation into the atrocities.

Evening Standard

Late release of MI5 Stakeknife files a ‘significant failure’, report says

The final report of Operation Kenova said that MI5 had ‘earlier and greater knowledge’ of Stakeknife than it had at first stated.

Evening Standard

UK government challenged to name agent planted in Provisional IRA

Kenova chief Sir Iain Livingstone was speaking as the final report into the operation was published.

Evening Standard

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I’ve researched the politics of flags in Northern Ireland for decades – here’s what England needs to understand

Flags – particularly the union flag and the St George’s Cross – continue to appear in towns and cities in England, at times in response to the housing of migrants and asylum seekers in the local area.

The Conversation

The Miami Showband massacre: what led to the killing of the ‘Irish Beatles’?

The band were as big as it got, topping the Irish singles chart seven times. Then they were stopped at a bogus checkpoint in County Down – and three were shot dead. Fifty years on, survivor Des Lee looks back on that terrible night

The Guardian - UK

Ronald Appleton obituary

Prosecutor in many of Northern Ireland’s most notable terrorism trials, including those of the Shankill Butchers and the La Mon House bombers

The Guardian - UK

Andy Tyrie obituary

Leader of the UDA, the loyalist paramilitary group, who played a key role in the Ulster Workers’ Council strike of 1974

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UK Government red-faced after giving MBE to convicted Unionist gunman

THE UK Government is scrambling to take back an MBE it gave to a convicted Unionist terrorist ...

The National (Scotland)

Reform UK Scotland organiser sacked amid family links to Loyalist terror group

REFORM UK’s party organiser in Scotland has been sacked following an investigation into his family’s links to a Loyalist terror plot.

The National (Scotland)

Fresh inquest recommended into 1971 McGurk’s bar bombing in Belfast

Attorney general decides atrocity that killed 15 people merits further scrutiny amid new evidence

The Guardian - UK

Two Catholic workmen murdered by UVF for ‘pure sectarianism’

Loyalist supergrass Gary Haggarty also claimed that the accused was ‘unhappy’ that he had not killed a third man.

The Independent UK

Families of Troubles victims launch legal challenges to Legacy Bill

The families have lodged judicial review proceedings challenging its compatibility with international human rights standards.

The Independent UK

Working-class unionists miss a leader like David Ervine – play producer

Martin Lynch was speaking at the opening of a new one-man play which tells the story of the former UVF man turned politician.

The Independent UK

Five fresh inquests ordered into UVF killings

The inquests relate to the murder of five Catholic men in Co Tyrone more than 30 years ago.

The Independent UK

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Belfast Live

Arrest after police seize large quantity of cannabis in operation targeting East Belfast UVF

A property was searched in the Albertbridge Road area of East Belfast

Belfast Live

Simon Hoare: Conservative MP met with loyalists on 'personal' fact-finding mission

The Northern Ireland Affairs Committee released a statement about the meetings, which said they were not an attempt to represent the committee

The National (Scotland)

Senior Tory MP met loyalist paramilitaries on 'personal fact-finding mission'

A Conservative MP reportedly met with loyalist paramilitaries in Northern Ireland as a personal fact-finding mission, a Westminster committee has…

The Independent UK

MP met with loyalists on ‘personal’ fact-finding mission

Simon Hoare told the Belfast Telegraph he had attended meetings in a personal capacity.

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Belfast Live

Jamie Bryson defends attending event for UVF man after criticising IRA commemoration

The loyalist activist acknowledged he was being "inconsistent, and I'm honest about that"

Belfast Live

Galwally House in South Belfast to get £4,000 grant from Lisburn Castlereagh Council

"By the 1930s the hospital was the property of the UVF, a militia that had suffered heavy casualties during the First World War, when many of their number served as part of the 36th (Ulster) Division."

The Independent UK

Sinn Fein ‘cannot ride two horses’ when it comes to NI’s troubled past – Martin

The Tanaiste was commenting amid a row over the planned attendance of a Sinn Fein MP at an event billed as the South Armagh Volunteers Commemoration.

The Independent UK

Man refused bail over charges in connection with taxi ‘threat’ video

Brian Stalford appeared via videolink to Laganside Magistrates Court in Belfast.

Daily Record

Man finally learns UVF shot and killed dad 50 years after his death

John Crawford was killed by the UVF in January 1974 at the furniture workshop he owned in West Belfast.

Belfast Live

Son of man killed 50 years ago has answers to who shot his father as UVF admit murder

The report from the UVF also confirmed the family’s suspicion there had been collusion in the murder

The Independent UK

UVF provide answers to bereaved family 50 years after west Belfast murder

The family of John Crawford spoke to the UVF through an interlocutor over seven years.

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