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Royal Wootton Bassett - title for town that comes to a halt to honour our fallen heroes

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Royal Wootton Bassett - title for town that comes to a halt to honour our fallen heroes

16.03.11
The town that inspired Britain by honouring our Afghan war dead is to be given royal status... more

Millions fall silent to mark Remembrance Day as Muslim extremists burn poppies

11.11.10
Millions of Britons fall silent to remember those who have died in war, but riot police are called as a London Muslim group burns a model of a poppy... more

Poignant tribute to fallen friend from Prince Harry as he opens Afghanistan memorial

09.11.10
Prince Harry pays tribute to a fallen comrade as he opens the first remembrance field to British forces killed in Afghanistan... more

Bodies of three soldiers return home from Afghanistan

07.05.10
The bodies of three British soldiers killed in Afghanistan to be brought home... more

Bodies of three soldiers flown home

19.01.10
Bodies of three British soldiers killed in Afghanistan by improvised explosive devices were returned to Britain... more

Home Secretary bans Islamist hate group behind Wootton Bassett march

12.01.10
Islamist group Islam4UK, which planned to march through Wootton Bassett, will be outlawed this week, Home Secretary Alan Johnson announces... more

Wootton Bassett on parade as Islamic hate row grows

05.01.10
Bodies of two British soldiers killed in Afghanistan are driven through Wootton Bassett as controversy rages about a planned march through the town by Islamic extremists... more

Gordon Brown: Wootton Bassett hate march inappropriate

04.01.10
Downing Street may oppose a march by an Islamic group through Wootton Bassett after Muslim cleric sparks fury with online letter to families of fallen soldiers... more

Anti-war anger over Question Time panellists

04.12.09
The BBC was involved in a fresh row over its flagship Question Time programme today when it was accused of not reflecting public opinion in a line-up of panellists set to discuss the war in Afghanistan... more

BNP leader gets 'friendly' reception as he joins soldiers' mourners

10.11.09
BNP leader Nick Griffin was present in Wootton Bassett to see the bodies of six soldiers pass through the town after their repatriation from Afghanistan to British soil... more

Girlfriend’s grief as body of MC soldier is returned home

29.09.09
Girlfriend of the most highly decorated soldier to have died in Afghanistan sobbed as his body was brought home... more

Mr Brown, you have cost my family a husband and father

17.09.09
The family of a young father killed in Afghanistan has written a letter blaming the Prime Minister... more

Tears for latest Afghan victims

27.08.09
The families of two soldiers killed in Afghanistan paid tribute to them as their bodies were returned to Britain for burial... more

Three Paras killed in Taliban ambush

07.08.09
Three soldiers from the Parachute Regiment were killed and a fourth was critically injured in a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan... more

Dead soldiers return home from Afghanistan

28.07.09
Bodies of five British soldiers killed in Afghanistan during one the bloodiest periods since the current conflict began will return to British soil... more

Royal salute for fallen heroes of Helmand

14.07.09
Prince Edward joined the grieving families of eight young soldiers killed in Afghanistan’s bloodiest 24 hours as their loved ones were returned to them... more

Wootton Bassett bells toll for Helmand’s latest dead

10.07.09
Hundreds of mourners lined the streets in the Wiltshire town of Wootton Bassett today as the coffins of five British soldiers who have died in Afghanistan in the past week were driven past... more

Home, the four who died on one day

13.05.09
Four British soldiers killed in one of the bloodiest days in Afghanistan have been brought home with full military honours... more


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