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Page last updated at 10:34 GMT, Friday, 3 July 2009 11:34 UK

Ainsworth pays tribute to 'brave men'

Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth has paid tribute to two soldiers killed in Afghanistan, including the highest ranking officer killed since the Falklands War.

Lt Col Rupert Thorneloe, of the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards and Trooper Joshua Hammond, 18, from Plymouth, died in an explosion in Helmand province on Wednesday.

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