Have a custom theme and on home.php previous and next posts buttons don’t appear

I know this has been asked a few times but I’ve looked around and around and none of the fixes posted seem to sort my issue.

all the code in the index.php seems fine – however my site uses a file called home.php which displays just the snippets of the posts not the whole posts.

The previous (older) posts and next (newer) posts links don’t show. I changed code on one occasion and got them to show, but when clicking on them they just went to page2 but with the same content displayed??

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This is the code from the index.php file

<?php get_header() ?>

<div id=”container”>
<div id=”content”>

<div id=”nav-above” class=”navigation”>
<div class=”nav-previous”><?php next_posts_link(__(‘<span class=”meta-nav”>«</span> Older posts’, ‘sandbox’)) ?></div>
<div class=”nav-next”><?php previous_posts_link(__(‘Newer posts <span class=”meta-nav”>»</span>’, ‘sandbox’)) ?></div>
</div>

<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post();
if( $post->ID == $do_not_duplicate ) continue; update_post_caches($posts); ?>

<div id=”post-<?php the_ID() ?>” class=”<?php sandbox_post_class() ?>”>

<h2 class=”entry-title”>” title=”<?php printf(__(‘Permalink to %s’, ‘sandbox’), wp_specialchars(get_the_title(), 1)) ?>” rel=”bookmark”><?php the_title() ?></h2>
<div class=”entry-date”><abbr class=”published” title=”<?php the_time(‘Y-m-d\TH:i:sO’); ?>”><?php unset($previousday); printf(__(‘%1$s – %2$s’, ‘sandbox’), the_date(”, ”, ”, false), get_the_time()) ?></abbr></div>
<div class=”entry-content”>
<?php the_content(”.__(‘Read More <span class=”meta-nav”>»</span>’, ‘sandbox’).”); ?>

<?php wp_link_pages(‘before=<div class=”page-link”>’ .__(‘Pages:’, ‘sandbox’) . ‘&after=</div>’) ?>
</div>
<div class=”entry-meta”>
<span class=”author vcard”><?php printf(__(‘By %s’, ‘sandbox’), ‘ID, $authordata->user_nicename).'” title=”‘ . sprintf(__(‘View all posts by %s’, ‘sandbox’), $authordata->display_name) . ‘”>’.get_the_author().’‘) ?></span>
<span class=”meta-sep”>|</span>
<span class=”cat-links”><?php printf(__(‘Posted in %s’, ‘sandbox’), get_the_category_list(‘, ‘)) ?></span>
<span class=”meta-sep”>|</span>
<?php the_tags(__(‘<span class=”tag-links”>Tagged ‘, ‘sandbox’), “, “, “</span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\”meta-sep\”>|</span>\n”) ?>
<?php edit_post_link(__(‘Edit’, ‘sandbox’), “\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\”edit-link\”>”, “</span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\”meta-sep\”>|</span>\n”); ?>
<span class=”comments-link”><?php comments_popup_link(__(‘Comments (0)’, ‘sandbox’), __(‘Comments (1)’, ‘sandbox’), __(‘Comments (%)’, ‘sandbox’)) ?></span>
</div>
</div><!– .post –>

<?php comments_template() ?>
<?php endwhile ?>

<div id=”nav-below” class=”navigation”>
<div class=”nav-previous”><?php next_posts_link(__(‘<span class=”meta-nav”>«</span> Older posts’, ‘sandbox’)) ?></div>
<div class=”nav-next”><?php previous_posts_link(__(‘Newer posts <span class=”meta-nav”>»</span>’, ‘sandbox’)) ?></div>
</div>

</div><!– #content –>
</div><!– #container –>

<?php get_sidebar() ?>
<?php get_footer() ?>

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This is code on the home.php file
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<?php get_header() ?>

<div id=”content”>

<div id=”nav-above” class=”navigation”>
<div class=”nav-previous”><?php next_posts_link(__(‘<span class=”meta-nav”>«</span> Older posts’, ‘sandbox’)) ?></div>
<div class=”nav-next”><?php previous_posts_link(__(‘Newer posts <span class=”meta-nav”>»</span>’, ‘sandbox’)) ?></div>
</div>

<h3>Fresh</h3>
<?php query_posts(‘showposts=10’); ?>

<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post();
if( $post->ID == $do_not_duplicate ) continue; update_post_caches($posts); ?>

<div id=”post-<?php the_ID() ?>” class=”<?php sandbox_post_class() ?>”>

<span class=”cat-links”><?php printf(__(‘%s’, ‘sandbox’), get_the_category_list(‘, ‘)) ?></span>
<h2 class=”entry-title”>” title=”<?php printf(__(‘Permalink to %s’, ‘sandbox’), wp_specialchars(get_the_title(), 1)) ?>” rel=”bookmark”><?php the_title() ?></h2>
<div class=”entry-content”>

<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

</div>

<div class=”entry-meta”>
<span class=”entry-date”><abbr class=”published” title=”<?php the_time(‘Y-m-d\TH:i:sO’); ?>”><?php unset($previousday); printf(__(‘%1$s’, ‘sandbox’), the_date(”, ”, ”, false), get_the_time()) ?></abbr></span>
<span class=”meta-sep”>|</span>

<span class=”author vcard”><?php printf(__(‘%s’, ‘sandbox’), ‘ID, $authordata->user_nicename).'” title=”‘ . sprintf(__(‘View all posts by %s’, ‘sandbox’), $authordata->display_name) . ‘”>’.get_the_author().’‘) ?></span>
<span class=”meta-sep”>|</span>

<span class=”comments-link”><?php comments_popup_link(__(‘add a comment’, ‘sandbox’), __(‘1 comment’, ‘sandbox’), __(‘% Comments’, ‘sandbox’)) ?></span>
</div>
</div><!– .post –>
<?php endwhile ?>

<div id=”nav-below” class=”navigation”>
<div class=”nav-previous”><?php next_posts_link(__(‘<span class=”meta-nav”>«</span> Older posts’, ‘sandbox’)) ?></div>
<div class=”nav-next”><?php previous_posts_link(__(‘Newer posts <span class=”meta-nav”>»</span>’, ‘sandbox’)) ?></div>
</div>

</div><!– #content –>

<div class=”middle”>

<?php if (function_exists(‘get_recent_comments’)) { ?>
<h3>Comments</h3>

<?php get_recent_comments($limit = 5); ?>

<?php } ?>

</div><!– #middle –>
</div><!– #container –>

<?php get_sidebar() ?>
<?php get_footer() ?>

Any help gratefully received. My Url is blog.ffburo.com – and the theme is a tweak of Futurosity Eos…