New DUP leader Edwin Poots denies party is divided + Outgoing DUP leader Arlene Foster to dedicate time to combatting online abuse

Good morning
Keep up with all the latest on the DUP leadership crisis throughout the day on our live blog.
In the news today:
* Ian Paisley: I understand hurt over Arlene Foster losing DUP leadership, my father’s ousting as leader ‘killed him’.
The ousting of Ian Paisley as DUP leader “killed him”, his son has claimed.
* New DUP leader Edwin Poots denies party is divided.
The Stormont Agriculture Minister was ratified by his party following a stormy meeting at a Belfast hotel on Thursday night.
* Sam McBride: DUP’s divisions now in full view as party members publicly slug it out over Arlene Foster’s ousting.
The DUP’s divisions over the toppling of Arlene Foster have spilled into public with members supporting or denouncing her local association attacking her removal.
* Tributes paid to former Grand Mistress of the Association of Loyal Orangewomen of Ireland.
UUP Chairman, Danny Kennedy, paid tribute to Mrs Olive Whitten MBE who passed away following illness.
* John Hume’s family to gift Nobel, Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi Peace Prizes to people of Londonderry.
Pat Hume and members of the Hume family will today meet with Mayor of Derry & Strabane Brian Tierney to announce their intention to give the Peace Prizes to the people of his home city.
Michael Cousins
Deputy digital editor
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