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TUV - no contest

Martina Purdy Martina Purdy | 14:01 UK time, Tuesday, 5 August 2008

The TUV has decided not to stand in the Enniskillen by-election next month - which must be leaving the DUP wondering why it bothered to select minister Arlene Foster, a Stormont big-hitter, to stand.

Mr DUP MEP Jim Allister, of the Traditional Unionist Voice, said his party had no wish to be dragged into an "unseemly dispute between the two largest unionist parties which could result in a win for Sinn Fein.

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