The actor, 69, who has starred in films including Alien, The Elephant Man and Midnight Express, said it was "the highest honour possible".

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Mr Milsom said that shortly before midnight the youngest looking man in the group took the oldest man out to the car before returning and doing the same with the woman.

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Perkins said that he was with the wounded building operations manager when the man came out of surgery about midnight.

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But, when the man stopped communicating altogether after midnight, "we believed the situation was escalating, " he said.

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" Only to be told, "I'm sorry Mr Thompson but the man who traces the calls went off-shift at midnight.

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Although Fifa confirmed it had received the final 23 names before the 1 June midnight deadline, Verbeek only publicly announced his 23-man squad on Wednesday morning.

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