He maybe receiving shelter from it or have made his own living arrangements. Another possibility, strongly rumoured in Belfast, is that he could be with another agency such as MI5.Sinn Fein condemned “allegations, speculation and disinformation”, calling for a full independent judicial inquiry into the activities of intelligence agencies. The Sinn Fein MP Pat Doherty, echoing recent calls for the IRA to declare the war is over, said: “Clearly the war is not over for British intelligence agencies.”In the statement issued on behalf of Mr Scappaticci, his solicitor, Michael Flanigan, said: “A number of most serious allegations have been made about my client in the press since Sunday.”My client denies each and every one of these allegations “He is not ‘Stakeknife’. He has never been an informer, has never contacted the intelligence services, has never been taken into protective custody and has never received any money from the security services.”"My client is the victim of misinformation, apparently emanating from the security forces and disseminated by the press. He has not been arrested and no attempt has been made by the police to speak to him about any of the matters referred to by the media. He has not been contacted by the Stevens investigation team.”Could these ‘informers’ have been saved?These people were shot dead by the IRA between 1984 and 1990, a period in which the Army agent Stakeknife was second-in-command of the organisation’s security department, whose purpose was to locate and kill informers.The question is whether, in many or all of the killings, Army intelligence knew that a killing was imminent but did not intervene in order to protect theagent.KEVIN PATRICK COYLE: Shot dead in Londonderry in 1985, he was married with three children The IRA said he was an informer A taped confession was given to his family. The RUC called the claimsa “tissue of lies”.CATHERINE AND GERARD MAHON: The young couple were shot dead in Belfast in 1985.

The IRA said they had worked for British intelligence since his arrest for unpaid fines.DAMIEN McCRORY: Shot by the IRA aged 20 in 1985. The IRA said he admitted under interrogation to working for the police for 13 months.FRANK HEGARTY: A Londonderry man, his body was found on a border road in 1986. His eyes had been taped shut.PATRICK MURRAY: Killed and left in an alley in Belfast, aged 30 His eyes were taped. The IRA said he was in the pay of the RUC.DAVID McVEIGH: A labourer, married with three children, the Co Armagh man was found on a border road in 1986. He allegedly turned informer after his arrest over an explosion.CHARLES McILMURRAY: A Belfast taxi-driver, married with two children. The IRA said he turned informer in return for having a drink-driving charge dropped.

His body was left on the border.EAMONN MAGUIRE: The father of two children, his body was found on a border road in 1987. The IRA alleged he had been a Garda informer for eight years, but his family denied this.ANTHONY McKIERNAN: Married with four children, he was found shot in Belfast in 1988. He had been plied with enough alcohol to kill him.JOSEPH FENTON: An estate agent found shot in Belfast in 1989. The IRA said he provided them with “safe houses” which were then bugged by the security forces.JOHN McANULTY: Abducted from a pub near Dundalk in 1989, aged 48, he was beaten and burnt before being shot in the head.. Eight of the 10 richest places in England are now in the north of the country, research from Barclays shows. They calculated average salaries in English constituencies, and linked those to the cost of living to establish the real value of disposable income.Tatton in Cheshire – the constituency once represented by the former Tory MP Neil Hamilton – topped the table, with the average salary of £29,000 actually worth more than £40,000 once the cost of living was taken into account. Neighbouring Cheadle, where David and Victoria Beckham have a £2m home, came seventh.

The average salary of about £26,700 is worth £37,800 in real terms.Other Cheshire residents include the Manchester United manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, the former Take That star Gary Barlow and the Duke of Westminster, Britain’s richest man.The Hallam area of Sheffield was second on the list, with an average income of about £29,150, worth £41,300 in real terms.The only London borough to make it into the top 10 was Kensington and Chelsea, and that was because its residents earn so much that they can afford the high cost of living in the capital.Of the top 50 wealthiest areas, 12 are in the North-west and seven are in Yorkshire, with just four in London and three in the South-east. While people in the South have seen their salaries eaten up by rising house prices, northerners have had more ready cash with which to enjoy life, according to the analysts.Gordon Rankin, marketing director of Barclays Private Clients, said: “The reversal in relative fortunes when cost of living is taken into account could well be a major factor behind the changes we are witnessing in the housing market. Housing costs in London and the South-east are levelling off and even falling in some areas, as consumers simply cannot afford to chase house prices higher. In the North, the real value of disposable income gives some headroom for continued house price growth.”. Rearing up out of the sea like a decrepit Victorian Meccano set, the charred remnants of Brighton’s once-fabled West Pier were still exuding trails of smoke with sporadic bursts of flame yesterday. It stood next to the skeleton of the huge pavilion at the end of the pier, also destroyed by fire in March.Just as the flames refused to die down, so did the debate over the future of the pier. A row smouldering for almost 30 years has reignited, with dark accusations being traded between those who want to return the pier to its former glory and their opponents and rivals.”It’s deliberate arson, there’s no doubt it was a professional job,” says Geoff Lockwood, chief executive of the West Pier Trust, as he gazes out at the smoking wreckage from his seafront portable building.