Third UUP hardliner to bid for Assembly seat

A third hardline anti-Agreement Ulster Unionist has announced plans to run for a seat in the Northern Assembly during elections next year.

UUP honorary secretary Arlene Foster, a critic of party leader David Trimble, said she will seek the nomination of her party to run in the Fermanagh and south Tyrone constituency.

Her announcement follows the decision by the UUP officer board last Friday to allow anti-Agreement MPs Jeffrey Donaldson and David Burnside to contest the Assembly elections.

Mrs Foster also ran for a British government seat in the last general election, but was beaten by nine votes by her pro-agreement UUP colleague James Cooper.