Trimble attacks hardliner's 'negative' campaigning

Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble today launched a fierce attack on hardline rivals as he claimed nationalists had become first-time stakeholders in Northern Ireland’s society.

With his party under serious pressure in a number of key constituencies in Thursday’s General Election, the First Minister in the power-sharing executive said the Rev Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionists had nothing to show for 30 years of negative campaigning.