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Memories of War

In the run up to Remembrance Sunday people affected by conflicts past and present talk about their memories.

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Remembering our war heroes

In the run up to Remembrance Sunday, we've been speaking to people in the region about how conflicts past an present have affected them. In the next of our special features we speak to the mother of a young soldier from Lancashire. Iain O'Connor lost his life just days after beginning a tour of duty in Northern Ireland in 1987. Iain, 23 was supporting police on patrol when he was killed when two blast bombs were dropped from a walkway in Divis Flats on to the Landrover vehicle that he was in.

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