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UUP President dies in car accident

The Deputy leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, John Taylor, has led tributes to his party's President, Sir Josias Cunningham, who was killed in a road traffic accident in Belfast today. Mr Cunningham, who was 66, had been President of the Ulster Unionist Council since 1990. Educated at Cambridge, he was also Deputy Grand Master of the Orange Order.