The Latest Breaking News from UUP

It follows a number of other former MLAs being co-opted to councils since May's Assembly election

Chris Heaton-Harris is to meet Sinn Fein, the DUP, Alliance and the UUP on Tuesday.

The Secretary of State has insisted he will call an election if Stormont power-sharing is not restored by midnight on October 28

DUP Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots said his party's ministers will be writing to Mr Swann to oppose the planned extension

The Justice Minister and her husband Michael appeared to bypass the miles-long queue to view the coffin inside Westminster Hall

He was reacting after Dame Arlene hit out at the "intense" coverage of Sinn Féin meeting the King during his visit to Northern Ireland

Unionist and nationalist political leaders paid tribute to the late monarch in a special sitting of the Stormont Assembly.

Phillip Rainey, 21, from Omagh, Co Tyrone, passed away on Wednesday following a single-car collision on the M1 motorway near Dungannon

UUP Leader, Doug Beattie warned of a “bleak outlook” this winter, even if the return of a fully functioning Stormont Executive is agreed. Northern Ireland’s political leaders met with the head of the region’s civil service Jayne Brady at Stormont Castle.The DUP has blocked the formation of a new Executive…