Trimble launches election manifesto

THE North’s Assets Recovery Agency must have proper funding to tackle paramilitary and criminal gangs, the Ulster Unionists said yesterday.

The party made the demand in its 16-page Assembly Election manifesto, which was launched by leader David Trimble in South Belfast.

In a foreword to the document, Mr Trimble said there had been recent progress in the effort to rid Northern Ireland of paramilitaries, but he said: "The job of firmly establishing peace and democracy is not yet finished.