Unionists prepare legal challenge over Sinn Fein victory

Ulster Unionists were today vowing to mount a legal challenge to Sinn Fein’s sensational Westminster victory in Fermanagh and South Tyrone.

Defeated Ulster Unionist candidate James Cooper claimed there had been after-hours voting in the constituency and refused to accept Michelle Gildernew’s knife-edge win which gave the republican movement a spectacular victory which effectively partitioned Northern Ireland.