Top honour for county bomb disposal expert

Friday 19th March 2010, 8:20AM GMT.

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Two Army bomb disposal experts have been awarded the George Cross for tackling Taliban explosives in Afghanistan.

Kim Hughes’s citation says he was responsible for the “single most outstanding act of explosive ordnance disposal ever recorded in Afghanistan”.



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