They fear they have been sacrificed for the sake of political expediency.There were the standard attacks on Sinn Fein, the IRA and republicanism, but the real venom was directed at Unionists who are backing the peace accord.Posters decried the alleged betrayal: “What’s the difference between David Trimble and Wolfe Tone? – 200 years,” said one. But also present were many ordinary working-class and middle-class Protestants who seemed bewildered that their loyalty to the Union appears to have been flung in their faces. As for me, I would rather starve than take filthy British money.”The audience who blocked the town’s main road included associates of the Loyalist Volunteer Force who went on a killing spree of Catholics after the assassination of their leader, Billy Wright, in the Maze prison.Mr Paisley has publicly dissociated himself from them. They have graduated from the devil’s school.”They have destroyed the act of the Union and given the title deeds of Ulster to Dublin on a plate These people have sold out Ulster. At the Moigashel rally, around 300 people turned up to stand in the rain and hear his invective against the peace process, and his description of its backers as agents of the devil.On the makeshift platform, Mr Paisley was surrounded by the leading figures of the “no” campaign. In the wet night, under flickering street lights, the speeches were a mixture of aggression and fatalism.

He is entrenching the views of some loyalists who fear betrayal and slide towards united Ireland, but there are also those who are being driven into the `yes’ camp by what they see as his negativism and demagoguery.The Government and the Ulster Unionist Party plan to capitalise on this in the run-up to polling day on 22 May. Tony Blair, Bertie Ahern, and George Mitchell, who chaired the multi-party talks, had conspired to deliver free Ulster into a papist united Ireland, declared Mr Paisley. But Northern Ireland observers point out that Mr Paisley’s involvement and influence in the province’s politics is as long-standing as the conflict itself, and you write him off at your peril.The “Big Man”, now aged 72, still has formidable pulling power. There was also a booming lambeg drum, traditionally used in Orange parades – but it was no match for the Rev Ian Paisley. To his critics Mr Paisley, fiery preacher, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party and standard bearer of the `no’ campaign against the Stormont agreement, symbolises the historical intransigence of Ulster Protestantism.
According to the polls, Mr Paisley has become a catalyst in the referendum campaign.

Please put them back on.” He replies: “No.”The tape’s value as a piece of criminal evidence is debatable as it features a woman who has consented to be recorded in advance of supposedly being forced to have sex. THE NOISE at the ultra-loyalist rally at Moigashel in Co Tyrone was deafeningly loud, repetitive and insistent. However, as a piece of evidence for disciplinary purposes, it may be potentially valuable.. [Officer's name] you’re penetrating me.” He replies: “That’s it, yeah.” Again, apparently for the benefit of the microphones, she says: “[Name] you’re pulling my drawers down .. why, I don’t want it. It is understood the Police Complaints Authority made a recommendation as to his future a year ago, but he has remained suspended on full pay.Other allegations being investigated by the CIB are that the officer “dishonestly appropriated 4 kilos of heroin from a total quantity of 40 kilos that were seized”; that in March 1994, he “unlawfully supplied the complainant with a firearm and a case of bullets”; and that he “unlawfully supplied the complainant with dangerous drugs”, cannabis, LSD and ecstasy.The witness also claims the officer stole money from her, told her what to say in a witness statement in a bid to pervert the course of justice, tapped her phone, dishonestly handled pounds 25,000 and failed to act on information about other crimes.In her statement, the witness, a mother of two, indicates that sex with the married officer took place many times, but by the time their relationship ended, she said she no longer wanted to have sex with him.Before the last session was recorded, she appears to have been primed to use key words For example, in one instance, she says: “I don’t want sex.

The Independent has obtained a transcript of the officer apparently having sex with the woman, in which she says “no” or rejects his advances on 17 occasions.
The transcript forms part of an investigation into 34 allegations made against the former South East Regional Crime Squad officer by the witness, most seriously that he repeatedly had unlawful sexual intercourse with her between May 1993 and August 1994 at two “safe houses” in Essex.As The Independent reported two weeks ago, the officer has been receiving a salary of about pounds 30,000 a year since his suspension in late 1994, but no decision has yet been taken by the Metropolitan Police on whether he should be disciplined.In a statement given by the witness to Scotland Yard’s Complaints Investigation Bureau in September 1994, she details the growth of a highly unprofessional relationship which started with the detective’s involvement in the arrest of drug suspects linked to her, and progressed into him having sex with her, allegedly sharing her reward money and even allegedly supplying her with drugs.The Crown Prosecution Service regarded the woman, a former drug addict, as too unreliable a witness to allow criminal proceedings against the officer. She has been given security to stay until the appeal is heard.A spokesman for London and Quadrant Housing Trust, which until recently leased the house from English Partnerships, said they had offered Ms Rushton other homes and the local council had agreed to rehouse her, but she had declined to contact the council and refused their offers.. A DETECTIVE who has been suspended on full pay for more than three years was taped by colleagues allegedly having sex with a police witness without her consent. Six months pregnant with her second child, Ms Rushton, 33, a single mother, is at her wits end “struggling to keep it together”.Yesterday she made a successful plea at the Court of Appeal against a possession order which would have left her homeless.

All the muck and all the noise,” Ms Rushton said, trying to soothe her 22-month-old daughter, Bertha. MANY people hate the Millennium Dome but Carolyne Rushton, who is the only remaining tenant in a Victorian terrace beside the site, has more reason than most. Since building began, she has been condemned to live in a contaminated dust bath, with rats in the garden and drilling at dawn.
While her neighbours have been rehoused, she claims she has not been offered suitable alternative accommodation.”Look at that Dome, causing all this trouble. Some receive only three or four hours tuition a week.David Blunkett, the Secretary of State for Education, is hoping to receive money for the changes from the Government’s comprehensive spending review due to report in July so that they can start to introduce the new arrangements from next year. Costs in pupil referral units are four times as high as those in ordinary schools.David Hart, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said: “Setting artificial targets for the reduction of truancy and exclusions will not, of itself, achieve anything unless heads are given the support they need to deal effectively with those pupils who ruin the education of their fellow pupils.”. The report also aims to cut truancy from the Government’s estimated figure of one million children each year – out of around 7.5 million pupils.Stephen Byers, the school standards minister, said: “By reducing the levels of truancy and school exclusions we will effectively cut off one of the main supply routes to welfare dependency, joblessness and criminal behaviour.”For the first time, pupils who are permanently excluded will have the right to full-time education either in a “sin-bin” or pupil referral unit or at another school.