ULSTER Unionist Ken Maginnis accused the Saville Inquiry and the British government of being “one-eyed” in its emphasis on just 13 of the 180 violent deaths in the North in the preceding year.

History was made today at a meeting of British-Irish body when it was attended by unionist politicians for the first time.

Police in the North were alerted the night before a loyalist paramilitary assassin carried out a grudge killing, an inquest heard today.

The North’s Police Ombudsman is carrying out a witch-hunt against RUC officers who defended the public against terror, a unionist peer claimed today.

The wife of Democratic Unionist leader Ian Paisley was today among the first three peers ever to be appointed from his party.

Ulster Unionist Ken Maginnis has fired the latest salvo in an extraordinary war of words with the office of the North’s Police Ombudsman.

Unionists should use their vote as a weapon to ‘‘sweep away’’ their leaders who have failed them since the Good Friday Agreement, DUP leader Reverend Ian Paisley claimed today.

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.

Ulster Unionist MP Ken Maginnis has announced he is to stand down at the next General Election - but insists his party could hold on to his Fermanagh and South Tyrone seat.