Former Ulster Unionist Party leader Lord Molyneaux has died at the age of 94, his party has announced.

James Molyneaux led the UUP from 1979 to 1995.

A soldier during the Second World War, he was among the first British troops to enter the Bergen Belsen concentration camp in 1945.

He was knighted in 1996 and became a life peer in 1997, taking the title Lord Molyneaux of Killead.

UUP leader Mike Nesbitt paid tribute.

"He brought a stability to the unionist party at a time when it was much needed," he said.