Former NSW premier Neville Wran dies

LONG-TIME NSW premier Neville Wran has died after a long illness, aged 87.

His wife Jill Hickson said in a statement to AAP that Mr Wran died just before 6pm on Sunday evening.

Ms Hickson was with him and all his family close by.

Mr Wran has been suffering from dementia and has been under special care for the past two years.

"This is of course a very sad time for us all, but in fact a blessed release for Neville," Ms Hickson said.

"Dementia is a cruel fate and I have been grieving the loss that comes with it for some years. But I hope now, especially this political climate, people will join me in celebrating the life of a great man, a true political hero."

She paid special tribute the nursing staff of Lulworth House who had been caring for the former premier.

"They really are angels," she said.

He led the Labor government in NSW from May 1976 to July 1986.

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