UUP News
  • New flights boost for International Airport

    Ulster Unionist South Antrim MLA Danny Kinahan has welcomed the introduction of additional bmibaby flights from Belfast International to East Midlands Airport.

  • Security alert perpetrators 'beneath contempt'

    Ulster Unionist South Antrim MLA Danny Kinahan has said that security alerts at St Comgall's and St Joseph's Primary Schools in Antrim are ';disgusting and utterly unjustifiable';.

  • Police commended on human trafficking swoop

    Ulster Unionist spokesperson on human rights, Daphne Trimble, has commended the PSNI on rescuing a number of women believed to have been trafficked and forced to work as prostitutes in Belfast.

  • Action urged on road safety training

    Two leading North Antrim Ulster Unionists, Mr Robin Swann and Rev Dr Robert Coulter MLA, have challenged education minister Caitriona Ruane to make road safety a compulsory party of the curriculum in all schools.

  • NI Assembly making a real difference in the community

    Ulster Unionist MLA, Northern Ireland Assembly Commission member Rev Dr Robert Coulter, has commended the Northern Ireland Assembly on generously donating redundant television sets to community and voluntary groups across the province.

  • NI sharing in Harland and Wolff's good news

    Ulster Unionist spokesperson for Enterprise Trade and Investment, Leslie Cree MLA, has said that a multi-million pound contract for Harland & Wolff is ';just the good news that Northern Ireland needs';.

  • Dairy farmer's profit margins will face pressure

    Ulster Unionist Agricultural spokesman, Tom Elliott MLA has warned dairy farmers that their profit margins will come under increasing pressure from both falling milk prices and increasing costs over the coming months.

  • GCSE transfer descends into bureaucratic nightmare

    Ulster Unionist MLA Danny Kennedy has condemned the ';bureaucratic nightmare'; that will see pupils across Northern Ireland, who are hoping to transfer to schools where they can sit their A-levels, left in limbo on the eve of a new academic year.

  • Important progress on Enniskillen hospital

    Ulster Unionist Health Minister, Michael McGimpsey, visited the site of the new acute hospital in Enniskillen today to witness an exciting phase in its development.

  • New North Belfast Councillor

    The Ulster Unionist party has welcomed an old face back into its Belfast council team, as Fred Rodgers has decided to return to politics to take over from Fred Cobain who was a member of Belfast City Council for 25 years.