The funeral procession of family and friends paused in a light drizzle outside the weathered stone house where he was born on October 26, 1916.

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"I told the American people I was going to pick somebody who could be president of the United States and I found that man in Dick Cheney, " Bush told about 3, 000 gathered under a light drizzle.

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Forecasters say it will be mostly cloudy and windy, with perhaps a few brighter spells in the north and east of the UK and the odd outbreak of mainly light rain or drizzle.

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