UUP officer board to discuss call for ruling council meeting

The Ulster Unionist Party's officer board is due to meet in Belfast tonight to discuss the latest moves by the anti-agreement wing to call a meeting of the party's ruling council.

Supporters of Jeffrey Donaldson, David Burnside and Martin Smyth had collected the signatures required to call the meeting next month, but the officer board had asked its lawyers to consider whether the petition was legal.