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The DUP, UUP, Traditional Unionist Voice, the Ulster Volunteer Force-aligned Progressive Unionist party and the Ulster Defence Association-linked Ulster Political Research Group said it showed that "the commission members place no value on a relationship with unionism and have treated our advice with contempt".

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Ulster Convenant, when tens of thousands of unionists pledged to oppose the Liberal government's plans for Home Rule for Ireland, many Ulster Protestants even signing it in their own blood.

The final group under stress thanks to the emergence of this new flashpoint are the loyalists themselves, or to be more specific, the loyalist terrorist groups such as the Ulster Volunteer Force and the Ulster Defence Association.

Spence told Radio Ulster that the UVF had been "engaged in murder, attempted murder of civilians, attempted murder of police officers.

At 11.30pm Democratic Unionists had 20 seats, Sinn Féin 13, Ulster Unionists 12, SDLP three, Progressive Unionists one, Alliance party one, and Dr Kieran Deeny, an independent campaigning to keep acute hospital services in Omagh, topped the poll in West Tyrone.

The violent protests over the union flag row have now extended to the East Antrim town, which has long-standing historical links to the Ulster loyalist-Protestant cause.

Gerry Adams got the largest vote in the province, his 19,000 majority in West Belfast one of the biggest in the Commons, while Mid-Ulster MP Martin McGuinness won more votes than either John Hume, or his deputy, Seamus Mallon.

Sinn Fein has two of Northern Ireland's 18 Westminster constituencies at present - Gerry Adams' West Belfast republican heartland and Martin McGuinness in Mid-Ulster - while the SDLP has three, all of which are likely to be held.

Useful links Ulster Unionists Democratic Unionist Party Sinn Fein Social Democratic and Labour Party Belfast Telegraph Irish Times Irish News Northern Ireland Office Cain (Conflict Archive on the web).

Northern Ireland secretary John Reid has until Saturday night to find a compromise between Sinn Fein and David Trimble's Ulster Unionists on decommissioning, police reform and demilitarisation, or again suspend the assembly (either indefinitely or for six weeks) or call fresh elections.

And Donaldson and his supporters forced through a major policy change stating that unless the IRA not only disarms but also disbands within three months, the Ulster Unionists will resign from the power-sharing government in Belfast.