Rebel Ulster Unionist assembly member Peter Weir has been expelled from the party.

The Ulster Unionist Party will begin disciplinary action against Pauline Armitage and Peter Weir today after the pair refused to support David Trimble’s attempt to be re-elected as First Minister last week.

As the DUP continued attempts to stall the vote at Stormont this morning, it was claimed that rebel Ulster Unionist MLA Pauline Armitage had been attacked and threatened at home and prevented from attending the Assembly.

Northern Ireland's non-sectarian Alliance party is expecting to redesignate three of its Assembly members as unionists in a bid to keep the province's political institutions alive.

Parties supporting the Good Friday Agreement will stand together to secure the future of the political institutions in tomorrow’s crucial Assembly vote for Northern Ireland’s First and Deputy First Ministers, Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness has claimed.

Northern Ireland Secretary John Reid tonight pledged to come up with a formula to save the province’s crisis-hit peace process.

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

The Ulster Unionist Party leadership today began moves to discipline two rebel Assembly members, Peter Weir and Pauline Armitage for voting against David Trimble in his bid to be restored as Northern Ireland’s First Minister.

Rebel Ulster Unionist MLA Peter Weir said he had put the interests of the country ahead of his party's by voting against Mr Trimble.

IRA decommissioning could be completed before February 2002 if the paramilitary group put large amounts of weapons beyond use over the coming days, the head of the International Disarmament Commission told rebel Ulster Unionists this week.

David Trimble was today facing an uphill task to be re-elected Northern Ireland’s First Minister in a knife-edge vote at the Stormont Assembly.

UUP's Pauline Armitage says she will not be voting for David Trimble in tomorrow's critical vote for First Minister.

Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness has said the Northern Secretary, John Reid, must call new assembly elections in the North if David Trimble fails to secure enough support to be re-elected as First Minister tomorrow.

The two dissident Ulster Unionist MPs who met with the decommissoining body this afternoon have refused to say if they would now vote for David Trimble to be re-elected as First Minister on Friday.

The two Ulster Unionist Party dissidents, who could stand in the way of David Trimble's re-election as First Minister in the Northern Executive, are to meet with General John De Chastelain this afternoon.

A dissident Ulster Unionist has tabled seven demands before agreeing to back party leader David Trimble’s bid to be re-elected Northern Ireland First Minister, it emerged today.

The Women’s Coalition has suggested that it might designate itself as a unionist party to help UUP leader David Trimble get re-elected as the North’s First Minister on Friday.

Hardliners within the Ulster Unionist Party are preparing to block David Trimble's re-election as First Minister following IRA decommissioning.

Hard-line Democratic Unionists were tonight preparing for new Northern Ireland Assembly elections after predicting that David Trimble’s bid to be restored as First Minister is doomed.

Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble is to hold crisis peace process talks with the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern today in Dublin.

DUP leader Ian Paisley has finally secured the 30 signatures he needs to table a motion seeking Sinn Fein’s expulsion from the power-sharing Northern Assembly.