We all know about the case of Dr Kelly, It is seven years since the Government weapons expert Dr David Kelly was found dead near his home in Oxfordshire. Kelly had just been exposed as the senior source of Andrew Gilligan’s BBC claims that there were doubts over the intelligence which led to the invasion [...]
Within the past hour, the Ministry of Defence have announced the death of a Royal Marine, killed today during gunfire in Afghanistan. Sadly though, this news is all too frequent. The Marine was serving as part of the Combined Force Sangin. The MoD said in a statement that “The Marine was killed by small arms [...]
The total number of British troops to be killed in Afghanistan has now reached 300. The MoD confirmed that the 300th troop, a Royal Marine, was injured and taken to the New Queen Elizabeth hospital in Birmingham, where he died last night. His family have been informed. The Marine died as a result of injuries [...]
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair today gave evidence to the Iraq Inquiry led by Sir John Chilcot. As was expected protesters gathered outside waiting for him, shouting out ‘murderer’ and ‘war criminal’. He spoke about WMD, The Military and that he thought a 2nd UN resolution was best, but President Bush wasn’t in favour. I [...]
The Prime Minister Gordon Brown, has confirmed that Britain will hold a conference on Afghanistan on 28 January 2010 aimed at giving control of Afghanistan back to Afghan local authorities area by area. The Prime Minister insisted that the Afghan police and army need to show that they are capable of maintaining security in areas of the country. In [...]
It was 8 years ago today on Tuesday 11th September 2001 that nearly 3000 people were murdered by terrorists who hijacked 4 American commercial aircraft, they had one aim to cause mass disruption and mass murder. Little did American’s or the world know that 11th September 2001 would be a day nobody who could remember [...]
Henry Allingham was only one of 2 remaining British World War one veterans remaining, he was the world’s oldest man, but sadly he has died aged 113, he lived a long life, he was born in 1896 and died in 2009. It is a great shame that he has died, and in my opinion and [...]
