DUP suspend councillor who harassed colleague

IAN PAISLEY’S Democratic Unionists have suspended a party member found guilty of harassing a gay colleague, it emerged yesterday.

Arthur Templeton, a councillor in Newtownabbey, Co Antrim, was convicted of harassing another member of the local authority.

Mr Templeton told John Blair, who sits with him on the area’s district policing board, he should be wearing a pink rosette because he was “queer”.