Analysis: Many Conservatives bewildered by decision to negotiate formal confidence and supply arrangement

£1bn DUP-Conservative deal leads to calls for funding boosts in Wales and Scotland

Ukip suffered significant reverses, with voters switching to the Tories

PM expected to visit the North shortly as Scotland begins independence motion debate

British prime minister rules out special deals for Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales

Leaders of devolved administrations range from muted to contemptuous after meeting

144 in total died in 1966 after wave of slurry and coal waste engulfed Welsh school

BIC established under the Belfast Agreement of 1998 which set out basis for peace process

Result exposes divide between parliament and people with steel and immigration key issues

UK prime minister urges grandparents and parents to think of their children’s future

Lesley Carroll of UUP eliminated at tenth stage of the count

Government moves to find buyer for loss- making firm which employs 15,000 people

Incoming first minister warns against Scots being forced out by UK-wide referendum

President to open new exhibition on centenary of poet Dylan Thomas’s birth

Cameron says Scotland deserves more self-control along with the rest of UK

Carwyn Jones says independence referendum will lead to a rethink of devolved power