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War heroine honoured at cathedral

Nurses and service people have paid tribute to World War I heroine Edith Cavell at Norwich Cathedral.

The nurse helped more than 200 allied soldiers to escape captivity but was shot by the Germans within hours of her trial in Belgium on 12 October 1915.
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