Northern Ireland’s Civic Forum should be reconvened to play a part in next month’s review of the Good Friday Agreement, the British and Irish Governments were urged today.

More and more disillusioned Ulster Unionists will defect from the party if David Trimble fails to quit as leader, the Rev Ian Paisley claimed tonight.

A judge has granted permission for a judicial review to begin either tonight or tomorrow morning on behalf of nationalist residents on Belfast's Lr Ormeau Rd against an Apprentice Boys parade in the district on Monday.