No quick resolution of NI talks deadlock

Hopes of a quick fix solution to Northern Ireland’s latest row faded tonight as Sinn Féin and the Ulster Unionists clashed over who was to blame for the North’s political deadlock.

As Ulster Unionists rolled out the first broadcast of their Assembly Election campaign, Sinn Féin’s Alex Maskey accused the party of “walking away” from a solution to the arms decommissioning dispute.