Mail bomb partially explodes in UUP headquarters

ULSTER Unionist Party members were reviewing their security yesterday after a mail bomb sent to leader David Trimble partially exploded.

The package, which had been posted to party headquarters on the outskirts of east Belfast, was being opened by a senior aide to the former Northern Ireland First Minister when there was a flash and flames shot out.

Army bomb disposal experts later made safe the device a video cassette inside a Jiffy Bag.