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• Lieutenant Commander Fred Frederiksen

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  Fleet Air Arm pilot who inveigled his way into the Falklands War where he served with distinction
  2 days ago

• GOOD TO KNOW OUR LEADERS HAVE GOT THEIR PRIORITIES RIGHT

  
  CALEDONIAN COMMENT — Authority: 122
  UK Business Secretary Lord Mandelson (pictured above) reportedly “went behind Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s back” last week in a last-ditch attempt to snatch the job of EU foreign supremo and abandon the Cabinet, it was claimed over the weekend. “Reliable” diplomatic sources claim Mandelson made frantic ...
  1 week ago

• "Clintons Folly?"

  
  City Lakes Real Estate Blog — Authority: 139
  U.S. Garage SaleCorporations that file for bankruptcy typically have their debt discharged -- zeroing out their shareholders -- and their new equity issued to erstwhile creditors.Whats the equivalent for sovereign nations?Put it this way: what would Alaska fetch on the open market?Sewards FollyWhen Secretary of State ...
  1 week ago

• Afghanistan: 2 coalition troops killed in blasts, clashes

  
  Pakistan News | News, Videos, Articles, Current Affairs, Politics, Entertainment, Technology | Geo TV | Dawn | The News | Ten Sports | Geo Super | India News — Authority: 455
  KABUL: Two coalition troops have been killed in bomb blast and clashes in Afghanistan belonging to UK and Denmark.
  1 week ago

• Captain Robin Green

  
  Old Salt Blog - a virtual port of call for all those who love the sea — Authority: 502
  From the Telegraph: Captain Robin Green, who has died aged 74, commanded the landing ship Sir Tristram during the Falklands War, braving extreme danger by entering shallow waters where naval escorts could not offer protection until disaster struck his ship and Sir Galahad at Fitzroy in the single ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sunday readings: spare change

  
  The Mex Files — Authority: 474
  Burro Hall commemorates an important date in the history of tourism : November 8, 1519 : Aztec ruler Moctezuma II welcomes a large Spanish package tour organized by Hernan Cortés and a local representative, Doña Malinche, to his lakeside hotel in Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City). Hector Tobar ( Los Angeles Times ...
  3 weeks ago

• Remembrance Sunday

  
  Lulz — Authority: 110
  For all those who’ve died and those who’ve lost in the Great War and after.
  3 weeks ago

• BBC shows Jock & Maggie Dempster at Poppy Messsage launch

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 487
  The BBC website, in a short piece on the launch of an imaginative Remembrance Day initiative at Edinburgh’s Omni Centre in Greenside Row, focused on a photograph of a two unidentified guests at the event, looking at the displays.On the displays are messages, attached to Poppies, sent from all over the world to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Should tactics in Afghanistan change after murderous attack?

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  As five soldiers have been shot dead by a "rogue" policeman is it time for a rethink?
  3 weeks ago

• Five British soldiers shot dead by rogue Afghanistan policeman

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  The three Grenadier Guards and two Royal Military Police were attacked as they rested inside a compound by a gunman thought to go by the name Gulbuddin and believed to have had animosity towards his superiors.
  4 weeks ago

• Afghanistan attacks: timeline

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  Three Grenadier Guards and two Royal Military Police killed making it the bloodiest year since the Falklands War.
  4 weeks ago

• The Warrah Mystery Has Been Solved

  
  Retrieverman's Weblog — Authority: 435
  Remember my post on the enigma of the warrah or Falkland Islands wolf ? I stated that we didn’t have the foggiest clue what its ancestry was, although early studies of its DNA suggested that it was derived from something like a coyote. It has been speculated that the culpeo and the other zorros or wolf-like foxes ...
  4 weeks ago

• MoD, Argyll, redundant submarines and nuclear waste disposal

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 487
  Much of the Scottish Media has spent the last two days headlining the Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) intention to dump nuclear waste from redundant nuclear submarines in up to 5 locations in Scotland.Our own concern with the matter – apart from environmental concerns that ground our opposition to nuclear energy ...
  4 weeks ago

• My Tourist Dollar and the GDP.

  
  Welcome to the Quark Expeditions Community — Authority: 128
  Stanley, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) The last port of call for me will be Stanley, the capital of the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas). Over the centuries, the islands have welcomed Charles Darwin in HMS Beagle, countless whalers, sealers and explorers. 5% of the islands’ gross domestic product is a ...
  4 weeks ago

• British forces in Afghanistan due for bloodiest year since the Falklands

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  British forces are likely to suffer the bloodiest year of action since the Falklands War after the death of a soldier in Afghanistan brought the number killed in this year level with the toll in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2007.
  4 weeks ago

• British soldiers injured in shooting incident in the Falklands

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  Three members of the Armed Forces have been injured while serving in the Falkland Islands the Ministry of Defence said yesterday.
  4 weeks ago

• 3 Argyll & Sutherland HIghlanders shot in live firing incident in Falklands

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 487
  In an unexplained incident now under investigation by the Ministry of Defence (MoD), three members of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders have been injured (on 27th October) in a training exercise  in the Falklands involving live firing. They are reported to have been hit by automatic fire.All three were airlifted ...
  4 weeks ago

• Three British soldiers shot in the Falkland Islands

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  Three British soldiers have been seriously wounded following a shooting incident during a live firing practice session in the Falkland Islands.
  4 weeks ago

• MINISTERS “LEARNING LESSONS” AS OUR SERVICE PERSONNEL DIE

  
  CALEDONIAN COMMENT — Authority: 122
  In the UK a damning report produced yesterday concluded that a “’systemic breach of the military covenant”  led to the crash of a Nimrod spy plane (example above) in Afghanistan in 2006 which killed 14 servicemen. The Nimrod exploded in mid-air near Kandahar in 2006, causing the biggest single loss of life ...
  4 weeks ago

• Tornado F3s Mark 17 Years of Defending the Falklands

  
  DefenceTalk | Defense & Military News - Forums - Pictures - Weapons — Authority: 564
  One of the RAF’s most successful fast jet aircraft has completed 17 years defending British interests in the South Atlantic while continuing to maintain the integrity of UK airspace. The Tornado F3 fighters of 111(F) Squadron based at RAF Leuchars in Scotland have provided air defence cover from the Faroe Islands ...
  5 weeks ago

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