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		</div><p>Astronaut Tim Peake is to be given the freedom of his home city.</p>
<p>Members of Chichester City Council in West Sussex voted to give the highest honour it can bestow to Peake at a special meeting.</p>
<p>The authority aims to get a message to the astronaut through the European Space Agency to invite him to accept the accolade when he returns to Earth.</p>
<p>The 43-year-old, the first British astronaut to carry out a spacewalk, is two months into a six-month mission on board the International Space Station, carrying out experiments and research.</p>
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<p>Chichester mayor Peter Budge said: “We hope that Maj Peake will accept this honour but I am sure his diary will be very full when he returns to planet Earth, so we will not know for a while when we can present him with the freedom scroll and sign the roll of freedom holders.”</p>
<p>Peake was born in Chichester and attended the city’s High School for Boys, which has named its science centre after him. He was also a member of the local air training corps, and his parents live near the city in the village of Westbourne.</p>
<p>What does it mean?</p>
<p>The freedom of Chichester is an honour adopted in 1901, but has its early origins in the 12th and 13th centuries.</p>
<p>Town clerk Rodney Duggua said: “It is the highest honour the city council can bestow, and the local government equivalent of an investiture.”</p>
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