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Brown pays tribute to soldiers

The Prime Minister has paid tribute to two soldiers killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan earlier this week.

Gordon Brown said he had met one of them, Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorneloe, of the First Battalion Welsh Guards.

The lieutenant colonel was the highest ranking officer to die in action since the Falklands War.

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