Unionists to quit Police Board if Sinn Fein join

The Ulster Unionists have threatened to resign their seats on the Police Board if Sinn Fein ends its boycott and takes up two seats on the board.

UUP leader, David Trimble, has said next week's expected announcement that the British government will allow ex-prisoners to sit on local police boards is a "sop to Sinn Fein" and a breach of the Patten Report.