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Tributes pour in for ‘good guy’ footballer killed by van on Christmas night out

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A man who was killed after being hit by a van while on a night out in Derbyshire has been described as “one of the good guys”.

Samuel Wilson, 26, was struck along with two other men on Market Place, Ilkeston, just after 2am on Saturday 16 December.

He was treated by paramedics but pronounced

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