SOUTHAMPTON and Romsey were today giving a heroes’ welcome to Hampshire’s returning troops.

Up to 300 men from the 1st Battalion, The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment, were marching through the streets in a day of homecoming freedom parades.

It is the first time the soldiers – nicknamed the Tigers – have paraded on home soil following gruelling tours of Afghanistan and Iraq.

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