The bodies of three British servicemen who were killed on duty in Afghanistan are being repatriated to the UK today.

Sergeant Gareth Thursby, of Skipton , and Private Thomas Wroe, of Holmfirth, both of 3rd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment, were shot by a rogue Afghan local policeman on Saturday.

A day earlier Lance Corporal Duane Groom, of The Queen's Company, 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, was killed when his vehicle struck an improvised explosive device.

The servicemen will be flown into RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire.

Private ceremonies for their families will be held on the air base before the cortege leaves on its way to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.