PRIME Minster Gordon Brown this afternoon warmly praised The Evening Star during a surprise pre-election visit to Suffolk.

PRIME Minster Gordon Brown this afternoon warmly praised The Evening Star during a surprise pre-election visit to Suffolk.

I met up with the Premier as he swept into RAF Wattisham, near Needham Market, to meet soldiers whose colleagues are currently on duty in Afghanistan.

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