Spacewalkers’ hi-tech tools proved ineffective when it came to dislodging a bolt interfering with repairs at the Hubble Telescope.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair tonight paid warm tribute to David Trimble after he announced he was resigning as leader of the Ulster Unionist Party.

Taxi drivers tried to make peace with the British government today after blockading Belfast city centre over a road safety advertising campaign.

A bitter row erupted tonight between unionists in Northern Ireland over a decision by Ian Paisley’s DUP to contest a Westminster seat held by Sinn Féin.

The Reverend Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionists have selected a former Ulster Unionist as a candidate in the next General Election.

Former Ulster Unionist MP Jeffrey Donaldson has claimed that hundreds of UUP members are resigning from the party because of their opposition to David Trimble.

ULSTER Unionist leader David Trimble was last night facing a fresh crisis as his Democratic Unionist rivals planned a recruitment drive aimed at starting an exodus from his party.

A member of the Guildford Four is to feature in a party election broadcast for the Northern Ireland Assembly today.

Ulster Unionists tonight cancelled a meeting of the 900-member ruling council scheduled for this week because of the lack of progress in the peace process.

Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble is today preparing to fight a motion of no confidence in him in his own constituency as rival factions within the party continued to row over policy.

THE Ulster Unionist Party unlawfully suspended three dissident MPs from the party for rebelling against the leadership, the High Court in Belfast ruled yesterday.

Judgment was reserved today in the High Court case of three Ulster Unionist MPs who are appealing against their suspension from the party.

Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble was today facing the prospect of a more hardline Assembly team as some of his harshest critics in the party were selected as candidates for the next Stormont election.

A third hardline anti-Agreement Ulster Unionist has announced plans to run for a seat in the Northern Assembly during elections next year.

The Ulster Unionist Party says it will press Tony Blair for tighter street security at their meeting today.

Sinn Fein’s first woman MP for 83 years has given birth to her first child, it was announced today.

The Ulster Unionist Party is seeking £12,000 per year in affiliation fees from the Orange Order, which has 120 seats on the UUP’s powerful ruling council.

David Trimble tonight failed to halt a special meeting of his Ulster Unionists’ ruling body called by hardliners demanding more IRA disarmament.

The Ulster Unionist Party is to take disciplinary action against two members who voted against party leader David Trimble.

General John de Chastelain and his decommissioning body colleagues handled and inspected the IRA’s arms, ammunition and explosives before they were put beyond use, it emerged today.

Sinn Fein’s Michelle Gildernew has won the right to remain on as MP for Fermanagh/South Tyrone.

Ulster Unionists seeking to oust a Sinn Fein MP over alleged polling station intimidation were today hearing if they have won their legal fight.

The Ulster Unionist Party has accused Sinn Fein of intimidating electoral officers to ensure that Michelle Gildernew won the Fermanagh and south Tyrone seat in the last general election.

The Ulster Unionists and Sinn Fein were today preparing for a Belfast High Court showdown over a hotly disputed General Election result.

A Democratic Unionist minister on the Stormont Executive insisted his party’s motives were sincere in calling for unionist unity to secure more favourable changes to the police reform plan.

Police reform in Northern Ireland will not be altered if unionists boycott the board overseeing the changes, the British Government insisted today.

Unionists today withheld their endorsement of the new implementation plan for future policing in the North.

Ulster Unionists were today vowing to mount a legal challenge to Sinn Fein’s sensational Westminster victory in Fermanagh and South Tyrone.

Sinn Fein’s Fermanagh and South Tyrone candidate Michelle Gildernew has seized upon the IRA hunger striker’s stunning victory in the 1981 by-election as a template for republican success.

Last night's claim by the anti-Agreement unionist candidate for Fermanagh/South Tyrone that he is the target of a smear campaign is likely to dominate today's press conferences by the UUP and DUP.

Anti-Good Friday Agreement Ulster Unionist MP Jeffrey Donaldson’s six-point plan for party unity and decommissioning was tonight endorsed by a prominent pro-Agreement member of the UUP.

The Ulster Unionist Party in Fermanagh/South Tyrone has chosen a pro-Agreement candidate to fight the upcoming general election.

The Ulster Unionist party is preparing itself for a potentially divisive debate over who will stand as its candidate in the Fermanagh-South Tyrone seat at the next British general election.

David Trimble received a boost today when UUP vice chairman James Cooper formally put his name forward for the Fermanagh/South Tyrone seat being vacated by Ken Maginnis at the next British general election.

Supporters and opponents of the Good Friday Agreement in the Ulster Unionist Party are certain to hotly contest the position of veteran MP Ken Maginnis who retires at the next election.