Durkan rejects 'rolling devolution'

Northern Ireland needs more than a return to rolling devolution if politicians fail to reach agreement next month on power sharing, a nationalist leader said tonight.

SDLP leader Mark Durkan ruled out a revival of the type of Assembly Northern Ireland had in the 1980s, following calls by senior Ulster Unionist Reg Empey calling for the 108 MLAs to be given a greater say over the running of the province.