The Ulster Unionist Party is tonight meeting to select its South Antrim candidate for the forthcoming Westminster parliamentary election, expected to be held in the spring, writes Monika Unsworth, in Belfast.
Over 160 constituency association members will choose between the party's Assembly chief whip, Mr Jim Wilson; the defeated by-election candidate, Mr Burnside; the constituency chairwoman, Ms Avril Swann; and an Antrim councillor, Mr Roy Thompson.
