A Scottish pensioner has gone missing in Belfast while on a short holiday, it was revealed tonight.

Belfast tonight took another major step towards normality with the removal of the final security barriers within the city centre.

Sinn Féin and the UUP were both in the black at the end of last year but the DUP and SDLP slipped into the red, according to accounts revealed today.

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

Ulster Unionists are today preparing to hear an appeal for the reinstatement of an Assembly member suspended from the party for defying David Trimble.