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Page last updated at 07:43 GMT, Friday, 6 March 2009

Dying couple end life at clinic

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A elderly British couple who both had terminal cancer have taken their lives together at the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland.

The couple from Bath are the latest Britons to travel to the centre in a country where voluntary euthanasia is legal.

Andy Moore reports.

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