Trimble calls for IRA to start decommissioning

Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble today made an eleventh-hour call for the IRA to begin disarming before he carries out a pledge to pull his party’s ministers out of the North's Government.

Mr Trimble is set to force the Stormont power-sharing regime into suspension when he returns from the United States tomorrow, by ordering his party out of the executive because of the IRA’s failure to decommission.