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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

British troops killed by policeman flown home

09.11.09
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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

Soldiers' bodies flown home from Afghanistan

21.08.09
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More bodies flown home as Obama says fight must go on

18.08.09
Barack Obama and David Miliband tried to shore up support for the war in Afghanistan as the bodies of three British soldiers were flown home... more

Bodies of four British troops are flown home

13.08.09
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Road patrols make troops ‘sitting ducks’ in Helmand

11.08.09
SAS veteran who wrote a best-selling book about fighting Iraqi insurgents blamed flawed tactics for the rising British death toll in Afghanistan... 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

Bodies of three soldiers brought home from Afghanistan

30.07.09
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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

Prince Charles joins widow's farewell to Helmand hero

16.07.09
Widow of Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorneloe was joined by the Prince Charles as her husband was given a full military funeral at the Guards Chapel in St James’s... more

WORLD: Barack Obama: Rest of world must help US and Britain

15.07.09
Responsibility for making Afghanistan secure and stable must be shared by nations other than the US and Britain, Barack Obama warns.... 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

Mourners line the streets for fallen officer’s return

06.07.09
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Bodies of Afghanistan soldiers brought home

05.06.09
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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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