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Clara Margotin

Tributes paid to two ‘brave’ police officers killed in A66 crash

Police officers at the scene of the fatal crash involving a police car and a Volkswagen Passat on the A66 (Owen Humphreys/PA) - (PA Wire)

Tributes have poured in for two “brave” police officers who died in a crash on the A66 in Teesside that killed five others on Saturday morning.

Pc Matthew Blades, 37, and Pc Tom Clough, 38, were killed when a Volkswagen Passat that was travelling the wrong way down the dual carriageway near Middlesbrough collided with their marked armed response vehicle that was going in the right direction.

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