Sinn Fein and the Democratic Unionist Party are expected to agree by next week to restore power sharing in Northern Ireland.

Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams is expected to see the prime minister today but his party has still not persuaded the IRA to allow a photographic record of its final and total act of arms decommissioning.

Before meeting Tony Blair yesterday, DUP leader Ian Paisley said: "I expect the prime minister to fulfil his pledge on decommissioning. I want to see the photographs not away in March, but immediately after it is done."