Clutching a bunch of flowers and weeping, the pain on the face of Sasha Buckley captured the mood in Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, as the bodies of the eight were brought home.

Miss Buckley, the 20 year-old childhood sweetheart of Rifleman Daniel Hume, was joined by thousands of mourners who lined the streets of the town to to pay their respects to the men killed during the bloodiest 24 hours for British front line troops since the Falklands.

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