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  LABOUR DEFENCE                
  SPOKESMAN DIES                
                                        
 Labour's front-bench spokesman for     
 defence, Sean Hughes, has died aged 44 
 after being ill for several months.    
                                        
 Mr Hughes was Labour MP for Knowsley   
 South and retained his seat with a     
 20,846 majority over the Tories at the 
 last General Election.                 
                                        
 He entered the House of Commons in 1983
 and sjrvjd as an opposition whip until 
 hj became spokesman on defence in 1987.
                                        
 Labour leader Neil Kinnock said the    
 death of Mr Hughes, who leaves a widow 
 and young daughter, was a "terrible    
 tragedy".                              
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