Trimble confident of seeing off DUP challenge

Ulster Unionist Party leader David Trimble says he is confident his party can see off the challenge from its hardline competitor, the DUP, in the Northern assembly elections.

Mr Trimble said he would not reform the North's regional government until the issue of decommissioning of paramilitary weapons was settled.

The DUP are campaigning for renegotiations of the Good Friday Agreement but David Trimble says a Sunday Times poll shows the ageing leader is out of touch with the electorate.