Former first minister of Northern Ireland played crucial role in peace agreement that ended the Troubles

David Trimble, Northern Ireland’s inaugural first minister and a crucial unionist architect of the Good Friday agreement, has died aged 77.

His death on Monday was announced by the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), the party he led into an historic power sharing arrangement between nationalists and republicans in Northern Ireland.

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