The Orange Order has refused to apologise for the loyalist riots in the North over the past few days, despite being blamed by the PSNI for sparking the violence.

The Orange Order has voted to sever its links with the Ulster Unionist Party.

A Protestant minister in the North has resigned from the Orange Order over the Grand Master's attitude to the law.

Nothing short of the expulsion of Sinn Fein ministers from government office in Northern Ireland will rekindle Unionist confidence in the peace process, a leading Ulster Unionist MP said today.

The Orange Order in Northern Ireland has issued a fresh call for a public inquiry into the murder of loyalist Billy Wright.