An air ambulance equipped like a hospital intensive care unit was in Malta early this afternoon to ferry Labour MP Karl Chircop to the UK for medical treatment.

Dr Chircop has been in a coma since August 3 when he suffered a cerebral haemorrhage. His condition is reported to have improved.

Dr Chircop is being accompanied on the flight by his wife Adriana.

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