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| PM to attend helicopter memorial | |
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| Prime Minister Gordon Brown is to attend a memorial service for the 16 men who died in the North Sea helicopter disaster. | |
| Mr Brown will join the Duke and Duchess of Rothesay at the ceremony in Aberdeen on Wednesday. | |
| It will be broadcast live online and on BBC2 Scotland and Radio Scotland. | |
| All 14 passengers and two crew who died were returning from BP's Miller platform when the helicopter crashed off the coast of Aberdeenshire. | |
| Officers from Grampian Police have travelled to Latvia to meet the family of one of the victims of the crash, which happened on 1 April. | |
| Mihails Zuravskis worked for the Aberdeen-based drilling company KCA Deutag. | Mihails Zuravskis worked for the Aberdeen-based drilling company KCA Deutag. |
| One of its staff will accompany police on the visit to brief the family of the 39-year-old. | |
| It is thought none of his relatives will be able to attend the memorial service at the Kirk of St Nicholas. | |
| Mr Zuravskis was the only victim from mainland Europe. Eight of the victims came from the north east of Scotland and seven from elsewhere in the UK. | |