UUP annual conference gets underway

The annual conference of the Ulster Unionist Party is on-going in the North.

The UUP is struggling to recover from near annihilation at the polls by Ian Paisley's DUP. It lost all but one of its seats in the Westminster elections.

British government plans to disband locally-recruited battalions of the Royal Irish Regiment is up for discussion as many unionists believe the RIR should be retained, despite the changed security situation.