Former UUP member abandons road-rage appeal

A British House of Lords peer Ken Maginnis has dropped his appeal against his conviction for assaulting a man in a road-rage incident.

The former Ulster Unionist MP was fined £200 after he was found guilty of grabbing Keith Kirk, 21, by the arm, swearing and threatening to punch him in his home town of Dungannon, Co Tyrone, last summer.