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Brown pays tribute to journalist blown up in Afghanistan

Gordon Brown paid tribute to the first British journalist to be killed in Afghanistan yesterday, praising his “courage, skill and dedication to reporting from the frontline”.

Rupert Hamer, 39, was killed covering the conflict when the vehicle he was travelling in hit an improvised explosive device north-west of Nawa. He died at the scene.