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Royal Navy: Historic Falklands War landing craft delivers first poppies for life-changing Portsmouth appeal
The Portsmouth News
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October 24, 2024
Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565 Visit Shots! now Heartfelt testimonials stressed the importance of remembrance as a historic landing craft delivered the first poppies of this year’s appeal. Crowds gathered...
Keir Starmer Fact-Checks Tories Over Their Broken Pledge To Build 40 Hospitals In Sharp PMQS Exchange
HuffPost UK
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October 9, 2024
Speaking in the Commons, the Conservative MP for South West Hertfordshire, Gagan Mohindra, asked why the government is cancelling funding commitments for new hospitals, and “spending billions of pounds giving pay rises to train drivers instead”....
‘Serious concerns’ as Care Inspectorate orders Falkland care home to make immediate improvements
Fife Today
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October 17, 2024
Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565 Visit Shots! now A care home in Fife has been ordered to make improvements after the Care Inspectorate expressed “significant concerns” over the quality of care for its...
Liam Payne's health fears and battles with alcoholism and suicidal thoughts as star dies aged 31
Scottish Daily Express
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October 17, 2024
The world of showbiz has been left stunned by the tragic death of Liam Payne. The former One Direction star, 31, fell from the third-floor balcony at a hotel in Argentina on Wednesday. The father-of-one had been in the country enjoying time with...
UK forces in Falklands placed on 'red alert' after Argentina vows to recapture islands
Daily Express
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October 5, 2024
British forces in the Falklands were on full alert last night after Argentina vowed to recapture the islands. A crack team of soldiers has been placed on round-the-clock standby to intercept any attempt to make a grab for land in the South...
The Soapbox: Public university funding in Argentina, Falkland Islands ownership in the UK, illegal gold mining in Ghana
Washington Square News - New York
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October 11, 2024
In Argentina, lawmakers fail to reverse presidential veto on law boosting public university funding Lawmakers in Argentina’s lower house of Congress failed to overturn President Javier Milei’s veto on a law that would have increased salaries for...
Inside story of how Miranda Hart met and married 'mould man': their romantic dates, where he proposed, why she calls him her 'greatest gift' and her battle with Lyme disease, revealed by KATIE HIND
Daily Mail
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October 10, 2024
Cradling her beloved poochon dog Patti in the back of a taxi, Miranda Hart beams as she shows off her gold wedding ring. On her way home from her appearance on The One Show, during which she confirmed she had secretly married a building surveyor,...
Has pathetic Keir Starmer just lit blue touch paper for Falklands War 2?
Daily Express
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October 6, 2024
Captain Calamity, Captain Capitulation, Captain Cock-up... take your pick (and I'm sure there are a lot less family-friendly iterations out there too) but Sir Keir Starmer is a man so spectacularly out of his depth it would be funny if it weren't...
Safety audits at Cork University Hospital find litany of concerns
Irish Independent
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An in exhibition in his home county of Cork highlights the work of the late human rights campaigner Now, his daughter Blanca has launched a special exhibition dedicated to the memory of her father, the famous Cork human rights campaigner, and to...
Growing the Gift Economy in Fife
Bella Caledonia
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August 12, 2025
While the official government of the U.K. is caught up in the fear-based mentality of scarcity and austerity, ordinary people are quite happily tending the seeds of a much happier and healthier society. As the Labour party threatens to sell off...
Patrick Watts tells of Ned Casey – A 23-year-old West Falkland Islands mystery solved in 1913
Penguin News
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September 20, 2024
WHEN the population of West Falkland Islands had little else to talk about the conversation would invariably turn to the mysterious disappearance of Edward Casey, who was known generally as Ned. In late June 1890 a resident of Saunders Island fell...
Success of Falklands delegation two weeks visit of Uruguay
MercoPress
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Saturday, September 14th 2024 - 22:24 UTC Tanya Lee and Virginia with British Ambassador Mal Green The Falkland Islands close relations and bonds with Uruguay were again confirmed this year by the delegation that spent a couple of weeks in the...
The top 10 most insane and hilarious moments from Brexit in full
Daily Express
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August 20, 2025
MPs lost their minds during the Brexit psychodrama (Image: House of Commons) Twitter users have been recalling some of the most darkly funny moments from Britain’s real-life political soap opera ahead of a major Brexit anniversary. Next week will...
Inspection planned for Falklands Hospital
Penguin News
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September 5, 2024
THE King Edward Memorial Hospital in the Falkland Islands will undergo an in-depth inspection in November, its first for over a decade. “In theory, you should never go that long without an inspection,” said Director of Health and Social Services,...
The Latest: Businesses and US trading partners worldwide respond to Trump's new tariffs
Citizen Tribune - Tennessee
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Trump's order, signed late Thursday, imposes a change in tariffs on 66 countries, the European Union, Taiwan and the Falkland Islands. It came after a flurry of tariff-related activity in recent days, as the White House announced agreements with...
Lord Darzi’s health report on the NHS
The Times
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Sir, Waiting till the spring for a plan for the NHS is too long, as none of the issues identified by Lord Darzi of Denham are new (“Labour orders biggest NHS reform in history”, Sep 12). For instance, poor infrastructure is recognised as a cause...
Dame Steve Shirley, from Kindertransport to the Rich List
The Times
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Long before flexible working, job shares and working from home entered the employment lexicon, they were the norm at F International (FI). The computer software company was founded as Freelance Programmers in 1962 by Stephanie “Steve” Shirley, a...
SAS hero who took part in Iranian embassy siege and daring Falklands War raids dies aged 82
Daily Mail
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September 1, 2024
An SAS hero who took part in the infamous Iranian embassy siege and daring raids during the Falklands War has died aged 82. Warrant Officer John Thompson died on Saturday evening after a period of ill health. Originally from Liverpool, Mr Thompson...
SAS hero who took part in Iranian embassy siege and daring Falklands War raids dies aged 82
Daily Mail
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September 1, 2024
An SAS hero who took part in the infamous Iranian embassy siege and daring raids during the Falklands War has died aged 82. Warrant Officer John Thompson died on Saturday evening after a period of ill health. Originally from Liverpool, Mr Thompson...
SAS hero of Iran embassy siege and daring Falklands raids dies
Yahoo News
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An SAS hero who took part in the Iranian embassy siege and helped in raids during the Falklands War has died aged 82. John Thompson, warrant officer, died on Saturday evening after a period of ill health. His death was announced in a post shared...