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Family lead Lee Rigby tributes

Memorial services for Drummer Lee Rigby have been held in his home city of Manchester and in Woolwich, with his family paying tribute at the spot in south London where the 25-year-old soldier was killed last Wednesday.

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Priest: A bit of ourselves has died with Drummer Rigby

The priest leading a memorial service for Drummer Lee Rigby in his home town of Middleton, Greater Manchester has told worshippers that "a bit of ourselves has died too".

He described Rigby as a "man devoted to his brave profession as a soldier, but a man who was also not afraid to tell his Mum how much he loved her".

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