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Soldiers Service is Set in Stone

THE parents of fallen rifleman Daniel Hume have attended a memorial service to honour those who lost their lives in Afghanistan last year.

Wendy Ellis Stafford, of Newlands Drive, and Daniel’s father Adrian Hume joined 500 mourners at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire on Saturday. They came from all corners of the UK to remember the 119 armed forces personnel who died in conflicts in 2009.

Daniel, 22, was serving with the 4th Battalion the Rifles when he was killed in an explosion while on foot patrol near Nad Ali, in H...

Erica Hunter successfully ran the Reading Half Marathon for Help for Heroes!!

I decided in September last year to run Reading half marathon on 21st March 2010, as some of my colleagues were doing it and I thought if I trained hard I could beat at least one of them, so having enrolled, I wondered how I could possibly keep the training going and then thought, of course!! raise money for Help for Heroes in memory of Dan my godson and son of my very special friend Wendy.

I had never been a runner so it was a daunting task, I set myself small goals 2 miles then adding a bit at a time the first main one was to be able to r...