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I have found the issue in that another piece of software installed on my system (it's a work build so I didn't install it myself) used python within it and appeared earlier in the path so was running Python 2.6.2 instead of 2.7 meaning all the paths were wrong. Having shifted python27 to the beginning of PATH roscore is now running. Thanks for your speedy reply.

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