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| PUP leader admitted to hospital | PUP leader admitted to hospital |
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| The Progressive Unionist Party leader, David Ervine, has been admitted to a Belfast hospital after falling ill suddenly. | |
| Party colleagues said Mr Ervine's family were with him at the Royal Victoria Hospital, but precise details of his condition are not known. | |
| Mr Ervine has been an assembly member for East Belfast since 1998. | Mr Ervine has been an assembly member for East Belfast since 1998. |
| He was one of the key figures who helped in the brokering of the loyalist ceasefire of 1994. | He was one of the key figures who helped in the brokering of the loyalist ceasefire of 1994. |
| Mr Ervine was initially taken to the Ulster Hospital at Dundonald in east Belfast but was moved later on Sunday to the RVH in the west of the city. | |
| Northern Ireland secretary Peter Hain has sent a message of support and encouragement to Mr Ervine's family. |