Soldier shot dead in Iraq on his first day of active duty

Kingsman Hancock, 19, had volunteered to join friends from the 2nd battalion Duke of Lancaster's regiment after serving in the Army for just a year. He was shot by a machine gunner at a watchtower on Monday.

Troops returned fire but the killers vanished. Jamie, of Wigan, Lancs, was the 121st British soldier to die in Iraq since the invasion in 2003.