D-day for Paisley on power-sharing decision

The DUP leader, Ian Paisley, has until midnight tonight to decide whether to agree to share power in the North so devolution can be restored by the Monday deadline.

He will consult a meeting of his party's ruling executive later today but has already said that he wants a mechanism on the books, that enables him to exclude Sinn Féin if republicans - in his terms - break the rules of democracy.