The Ulster Unionist Party has paid the price for its arrogant treatment of former members in the North’s Assembly Election, it was claimed tonight.

The North’s Assembly Election candidates will learn what the electorate has in store for them today as counting gets under way in 18 constituencies.

Democratic Unionist leader Ian Paisley today had to battle his way through a media scrum to cast his vote in the North’s Assembly Election.

The Ulster Unionist party will today launch its manifesto for the North’s Assembly Election.

The North’s Assembly Election campaign will today go up several gears as candidates lodge their nomination papers for the March 7 poll.