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VIDEO: Friends' tribute to exams success of tragic Jack Burden
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A TRAGIC South Tyneside teenager who died on a school trip to Tanzania passed all his A-levels, his headteacher revealed. Jack Burden, 18, died after suffering a severe allergic reaction while on a trip helping disadvantaged children in the African country ...