Twenty-two loyalists have been convicted in the past 18 months for dealing drugs connected the East Belfast UVF.  The UVF’s Shankill Road based leadership has now ‘stood down’ several prominent figures in the notorious east Belfast battalion, to protect ‘transition’ funding.  
 Ciaran Barnes, chief reporter with the Sunday Life, has the latest.   

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