Soldiers' bodies being flown home

The bodies of six UK servicemen - five of whom were shot by a "rogue" Afghan policeman - will be repatriated later.

Guardsman Jimmy Major, Warrant Officer Darren Chant, Sgt Matthew Telford, Cpl Steven Boote and Cpl Nicholas Webster-Smith died in last Tuesday's incident.

The coffins will arrive at RAF Lyneham, Wilts, along with that of Sjt Phillip Scott, who died in a blast on Thursday.

After a private service for families, a cortege will then pass through nearby Wootton Bassett.

Hundreds of people are once again expected to line the streets to pay silent respects, as has become custom when fallen services personnel are returned.

Six other British personnel and two Afghan police officers were injured when the five men were shot dead at a national police checkpoint in the Nad Ali district of Helmand Province.

The gunman fled the compound afterwards and remains at large.

WO Chant, 40, from east London; Sgt Telford, 37, from Grimsby, Lincolnshire; and Guardsman Major, 18, from Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, were from the Grenadier Guards.

Territorial Army volunteer Cpl Boote, 22, from Birkenhead, Merseyside, and Cpl Webster-Smith, 24, of Brackley, Northamptonshire, were from the Royal Military Police.

Sjt Scott, 30, who was born in Malton, North Yorkshire, and lived in Edinburgh, died during an explosives clearance operation in Sangin, Helmand.