Ulster Unionist DRD Minister Danny Kennedy MLA has stated that the people of Northern Ireland need a well thought out, planned and most importantly fair budget. Mr Kennedy said: “The real negotiation on this DUP/Sinn Fein draft...
The following Platform Piece by Jim Nicholson MEP appeared in the Newsletter on Friday 31 October 2014. "With a Westminster election coming up next May, the Prime Minister David Cameron will no doubt be focussed on European matters as...
Ulster Unionist MEP Jim Nicholson has called on the UK Government to retain the European Arrest Warrant, an important weapon in the fight against terror and criminality. The Government has until December to decide whether...
Ulster Unionist Party Councillor Sonia Copeland has condemned those who sprayed sectarian graffiti on a wall of a bus depot in the Short Strand overnight which stated ‘all huns are targets’. Councillor Copeland said: “This sectarian, intimidating graffiti...
Ulster Unionist Andy Allen has described as “an absolute disgrace” the latest attack on the memorial to three murdered Scottish soldiers which is located at Ligoniel on the outskirts of north Belfast. Mr Allen, who served...
Queen’s University Students’ Union has rejected calls for the Union to support a united Ireland. On Monday students voted in two competing referendums. The first referendum proposed by the Queen’s branch of Sinn Fein asked...
Mr Robin Swann, the North Antrim Ulster Unionist Party Assembly member and Chairman of the Stormont Employment and Learning Committee, has called on families to come forward and give evidence to his committee’s Inquiry into...
Ulster Unionist MLA and party Agriculture spokesperson Jo-Anne Dobson has raised concerns about the Department of Agriculture’s plans for replacing its livestock database known as APHIS. Following writing to the Minister to find out the estimated...
Ulster Unionist Policing Board Spokesperson, Ross Hussey MLA, has condemned an overnight attack on a PSNI patrol in Strabane. Mr Hussey said: "This was a typically cowardly attack by republican terrorists. It was a despicable attack on...
Ulster Unionist MEP Jim Nicholson has expressed his disbelief following the announcement made by the European Commission that the UK Government is to pay an extra £1.7 billion to the EU, under new calculations on...