Democratic Unionist MP Nigel Dodds and Sinn Féin’s Gerry Kelly today became the first two Assembly members to be elected in Northern Ireland.

The Government is poised to announce plans to erect close circuit television cameras along the peace line in East Belfast in a bid to stop sectarian rioting, it emerged tonight.

The leaders of Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government were today holding talks with New York senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and other US politicians on the second day of their visit to Washington.