About 1, 400 people attended a memorial service for Cliburn, who died Wednesday at 78 after fighting bone cancer.

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"Gordon Brown and David Cameron are like two dogs fighting over the wrong bone, " he said.

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Ron has been fighting cancer since 2008, experiencing two expensive bone marrow transplants in the effort to save his life.

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