Three senior loyalists have been arrested in Derry this afternoon, as police launched a new crackdown on paramilitary activity in the North.
The three were taken into custody following raids on their homes, all in the Coleraine area.
They are currently being questioned at a police detention centre in Lisburn, county Antrim.
A spokesman for the PSNI indicated that the men were being held in connection to loyalist terror activities.
The arrests follow yesterday's meeting in Dublin between the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Mr Paul Murphy, and the Minister for Justice, Mr Michael McDowell, at which both men promised an increased security focus on paramilitary activities, both loyalist and republican.
