Deleting shortcuts from home screen

I picked up the 16g 3g yesterday and added a shortcut from a Yahoo page to my home screen. This may be a stupid question but can anyone tell me how to remove this shortcut from my home screen?
Thanks

press one of the icons till they start wiggling then tap the one you want deleted. to stop the wiggling hit the home button.

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