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PM apology for condolence letter

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Gordon Brown has publicly apologised for a letter of condolence he sent to the mother of a soldier who was killed in Afghanistan.

Jacqui Janes had called the letter about her son's death a "hastily scrawled insult" but now says she accepts the apology given by Gordon Brown.

Nick Robinson reports.

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