Teacher to take vacant Assembly seat

Tom Hamilton is to fill the seat left empty by Ulster Unionist Tom Benson.

Teacher to take vacant Assembly seat

Tom Hamilton is to fill the seat left empty by Ulster Unionist Tom Benson.

Mr Hamilton, mayor of Ards Borough Council, County Down, was selected to take the seat for Strangford which was previously held by Mr Benson, 71. He died on Christmas Eve after a stroke two months earlier.

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