A newly co-opted Alliance Party councillor is to be first member of the Chinese community on his local authority.
Dave Lee is stepping in after Rowallane councillor Patrick Brown was elected to the Assembly in South Down on May 5.
The 35-year-old cookery teacher is married to Peter Surginor whose 2015 question to Jim Wells about gay marriage led to controversy when the then DUP Health Minister linked gay parents to child abuse. Mr Wells later resigned.
