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"The UUP are on record as stating that they will not support the election of a local minister to oversee the administration of policing and justice until there is agreement to test 10 and 11-year-old children to determine which school they will attend," he said.

Whilst the UUP is focused on positioning itself for an election the DUP is focused on punishing republicans.

Ironically, it was the UUP which drove a wedge between itself and the Order when it took steps six years ago to end the Order's block vote within the Ulster Unionist Council under a package of reforming measures.

The meeting was attended by Lagan Valley MP Jeffrey Donaldson, East Antrim Assemblyman Roy Beggs jnr and dissident UUP Assemblyman Peter Weir.

Sinn Fein, which rejects the claim the PIRA still exists, has accused the UUP of contriving a crisis in a bid to outflank the DUP ahead of next year's Assembly poll.

The senior UUP aide, who'll be pivotal in the party's forthcoming election campaign, said he'd received no negative feedback from members of the public about his gay marriage.

Reports had suggested the UUP Assembly team was considering several approaches to the decommissioning and devolution deadlock blocking the formation of a multi-party executive in Northern Ireland.

The UUP leadership were said to be considering a power-sharing government with a deadline of one month for the IRA to begin disarming.

THE DUP accused the UUP of hypocrisy and noted the party sat in an Executive with Sinn Fein before IRA decommissioning.

DEPUTY First Minister Martin McGuinness told Sinn Fein's Ard Fheis yesterday that the UUP have "three days to sort themselves out" over the issue of policing and justice.

The action by Lee Reynolds is one of two tribunal cases being brought against the UUP.

UUP leader Mr David Trimble decided to participate in the review, which has made little progress since former Senator George Mitchell started to meet the parties individually two weeks ago.

MIKE Nesbitt's UUP are to walk out of the Assembly over the alleged involvement of IRA men in Kevin McGuigan's murder, he said yesterday.

But we have learned that high on the agenda will be the growing demand from many Orangemen for a quickie `divorce' between Orangeism and the UUP.

At the 2001 General Election, the SDLP, DUP, UUP and Sinn Fein spent about pounds 440,000 on their campaigns - proof that some parties have access to good financial resources.