The deputy leader of the Northern Ireland Unionist Party has announced his intention to resign from the Assembly at the next Stormont elections.

The Rev Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionists were tonight accused by a rival of being anti-Agreement in name only.

Unionist splinter groups will suffer meltdown after the General Election, David Trimble claimed today.

A man whose son was gunned down by the IRA in retaliation for the killing of eight of its members in Loughgall is standing in the local government elections, it emerged today.