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TRIBUTES are flowing in for Warwick’s Fred Hyde AM – the driving force behind a charity which has helped educate more than 40,000 children in Bangladesh – who has died, aged 96. Fred passed away peacefully on Tuesday morning at The Oaks Nursing home in Warwick, after a battle with cancer. The organisation which he founded in 1991, Co-operation in Development or CO-ID, became
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