NI power sharing talks still finely balanced

Talks aimed at restoring power sharing in Northern Ireland remained on a knife edge tonight as Sinn Féin and the Democratic Unionists still sought assurances about a deal.

With both parties under pressure to reject or accept proposals from the British and Irish governments by Tuesday, the Reverend Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionists were still trying to establish whether the IRA would allow photographic evidence of disarmament.