A top Para has died on holiday.

The senior officer, due to command the 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment which moves to Colchester next month, died of a suspected heart attack.

Lieutenant Colonel David Limb, 39, who was married with a daughter, was out running near their holiday home in the Dordogne in France, when he collapsed.

He had just taken control of 3 Para on August 4 and the battalion is due to move into its new home in Colchester Garrison in September.

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