Visit republican area, Sinn Fein tells Trimble

Sinn Fein today urged Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble to visit a nationalist community in east Belfast.

Sinn Fein national chairman Mitchel McLaughlin extended the invitation again to Mr Trimble, who is in South Africa for the Earth Summit, after the Stormont First Minister claimed republican paramilitaries had stoked sectarian tensions in the city for political gain but had lost control of the situation.