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| Increased risk .. |
| Saturday | 11% higher |
| Sunday | 16% higher |
Think of it .. 16% is more than three people in
every twenty ..
that's AN EXTRA
3 PEOPLE
DYING .. .. !

No-one can disagree with the government statement that the NHS must fundamentally revise its working practices.
Our photo is of 16-hand
Friesian stallions Twm and Will, and Marston
Hearse No. 11969
(originally built in 1914),
owned and run by Mark Evans, Carriage Master.
Friesians horses' strong black colour, noble bearing and quiet
temperament have
made them the first choice for funeral horses for over two hundred
years.

Ms Green MP, Stretford and Urmston, branded "a humourless sort" by UK Independence Party MEP for Stafford Mike Nattrass, used Thursday's Commons 'business questions' to have a beer brewed in Stafford by Slater's Ales slung-out of the House (well, out of the 'Strangers Bar', at least).

She doesn't look the "humourless
sort" ..
but who are we to go by appearances ?
Introduced in 2007 .. it was selling at just £2.70 pint .. making it London's cheapest beer ?
This "Queen Bee" said that she had "..only just learned of it" and apparently took exception to the bikini-clad young lady seen outlined on the bottle, not the price .. or the colour (the beer is described as 'blond') .. or, possibly, the taste (since she was haranguing it before having tasted it).
Mike Nattrass responded in
defence of his constituency business by saying ..
"This sort of
knee-jerk Puritanism does more to damage the cause of equality than a
thousand beer labels”
Later on Thursday, a member of staff in The Strangers' Bar told the Press Association: "I can confirm it was withdrawn from sale at 1.30pm."
'Top Totty' is described by "Roger Protz - Beer Pages" as "a stunning blonde, full-bodied, with a voluptuous (hop) aroma. At 4 per cent, it has a ripe and generous fruitiness, with deep and complex hop notes and rich malt. The beer is available in barrel and bottle."
Top Totty sits alongside Premium (4.4%), Queen Bee (4.2%), Why Not (3.6%) and Original (4%).

Slater's
Ales
St Albans Road - Common Road Industrial Estate - Stafford - ST16
3DR
Tel: 01785 257976

Much publicity is being
given, this week, to the opening of a "House" as an adjunct to
Birmingham Hospital to care for military personnel and their families.
Well done; its a very good thing.
Based on the American model, and receiving funding from across the pond, it aims to unite families and soldiers in their recovery after battlefield trauma.
But; it is not the
first: the British charity S.S.A.F.A
Forces help
(Soldiers, Sailors and Airmens'
Families Association)
on Thursday 26th February 2009, opened a 6-bedroom house in Selly Oak
and fitted it out for family residency and communal living, where
servicemen in the Selly Oak hospital could live during the day and
integrate back into their families - who both had to change and adapt to
new circumstances.
Called "Norton
Homes" (named after the originator of the concept) SSAFA's
'take' is very much the British-way of doing things.
A charming, domestic house in delightful suburban surroundings; all run
on an intimate scale.
The American model is of a design similar to a barracks building, is
located on a military base, and aims to cope with 40/50 families, all
living together. But then, their army is larger and their casualty
numbers higher.
But every injury is a sacrifice - and merits the best attention that can be given.
Armed forces personnel are treated in
single rooms or four-bed bays in a 32-bed trauma and orthopaedics ward
which has additional features for the use of service personnel only.
These cater for their specific requirements and help to create a
military environment.
It has more staff (both military and civilian) than a normal NHS ward,
a quiet room for relatives and a communal space for patients to
gather. There is a dedicated physiotherapy suite available close to
the ward for military patients.
“The creation of a military atmosphere on the ward ensures that our people are cared for in an environment that is conducive to their recovery.”
The Soldiers' and Sailors' Families Association was founded in 1885 by Colonel Sir James Gildea GBE KCVO CB

Here we display the Argentinean flag
We do not abuse it .. unlike the 100 or so protesters who gathered to burn Union flags in front of the British embassy in Buenos Aires, recently.
With tension increasing ahead of the 30th anniversary of the Falklands War, in April, Argentina is demanding talks on its claim to sovereignty over the territory which it calls 'Las Malvinas'.
Left-wing activists of the Socialist Workers' Movement (MST) took the day off from work to protest (showing they weren't that keen on being 'workers') and carried banners reading "Government break off relations now," and "English out of the Malvinas". Recently the MST suffered a split in their ranks as many broke away to form the 'Socialist Left' (Izquierda Socialista).

Prince William - third in line to the British throne - arrives in the Falklands next month for a tour of duty as a helicopter rescue pilot.
Ms.Wilma Ripoll said the MST was planning further protests - much good will it do her as the UK has reaffirmed that the Falkland Islands will remain British for as long as its inhabitants want.
Tension over the remote South Atlantic archipelago has increased following British companies' success in drilling for oil in waters on the Falklands' plateau.

Britain has held the islands since the 1830s; but Argentina feels it has a prior claim and, in 1982, launched an invasion which was repelled by a British task force who recaptured the islands in a short but bloody war in which 649 Argentine and 255 British servicemen were killed.

S&P (the US agency looked-to for a third-party appraisal as to the financial health of nations) has down-graded NINE of the Euro countries.
NO CHANGE
| Country | Old Rating / New Rating | Cut |
| BELGIUM |
AA / AA |
NIL |
| ESTONIA |
AA - / AA - |
NIL |
| FINLAND |
AAA / AAA |
NIL |
| GERMANY |
AAA / AAA |
NIL |
| IRELAND |
BBB+ / BBB+ |
NIL |
| LUXEMBOURG |
AAA / AAA |
NIL |
| NETHERLANDS |
AAA / AAA |
NIL |
DOWN
| AUSTRIA |
AAA / AA + |
LOSES TOP RATING |
| FRANCE |
AAA / AA + |
LOSES TOP RATING |
| MALTA |
A / A - |
ONE NOTCH |
| SLOVAKIA |
A + / A |
ONE NOTCH |
| SLOVENIA |
AA - / A + |
ONE NOTCH |
| ITALY |
A / BBB + |
TWO NOTCHES |
| SPAIN |
AA = / A |
TWO NOTCHES |
JUNK STATUS
| CYPRUS |
BBB / BB + |
TWO NOTCHES |
| PORTUGAL |
BBB - / BB |
TWO NOTCHES |
Ratings range from AAA, the safest, down to D, a company that has already defaulted. Ratings of BBB- or higher are considered "investment grade". Below that level, they are considered "speculative grade" or more colloquially as junk.
With just 100 days remaining before the
French Presidential elections this is BAD news for current President
Sakozy who has made much of telling voters that, although he
acknowledges they may not warm to him personally, he has what it takes
to battle through the crisis.
Voters might prefer to interpret that France has just lost its gold star
status - under his watch.
It may be that in the short term the economic effects of the downgrade are quite limited; the markets were aware that this was coming and so may have absorbed the impact on France's cost of borrowing already; but, with a yawning poll deficit between him and the Socialist Francois Hollande, his plea that France should entrust the ship of state to a proven captain may be ignored.
Is there a President Hollande on the horizon ?
Pity poor Sakozy .. .. ?
If he looks 'a gauche' ..
"The 'blow-up' model - and so true to
nature."
François Gérard
Georges Hollande
born 12 August 1954
Nominated as the Socialist and Left Radical Party candidate in France's 2012 presidential election, he has been a special adviser of the President Mitterrand as well as having served several times as a member of the National Assembly (1988-2010), and as Mayor of Tulle from 2001 to 2008; and, briefly (6 months), as an MEP.
And if he looks 'a droite' ..

"You have repeatedly said that the gas chambers were a mere
detail." "Yes...
"Heaven help me, the National Front could also become a detail in
history !"
Jean-Marie Le Pen
born 20 June 1928
President of the National Front - 1972-2011, he first entered the National Assembly in 1956, and has been an MEP since 1984. He describes his position as "ni droite, ni gauche, .. français !"
Austria, like France has lost its top AAA rating, and been downgraded to AA+ as its economy exports a lot to recession-struck Italy, while its banks are facing losses on subsidiaries they own in financially troubled Hungary.

Speaking at the new Olympic aquatics
centre in Stratford, David Cameron
went in at the proverbial deep end by saying that ..
..
'Scotland must decide its own
future'.
[2:43 pm GMT 09 Jan 2012]
But by 9:30AM GMT 10 Jan 2012 he was saying that ..
.. the Coalition will challenge
Alex Salmond's plan ..
to use his majority in the Scottish Parliament to order a vote on ending
the 305-year-old union, insisting that the power to call a referendum
remains with ministers at Westminster.
All good "Unionist" 'rough & tumble' stuff.
But, just a minute .. before Scotland goes 'drifting off' into the Nordic twilight .. and that's even if we want to let them go .. shouldn't we first present the bill of what they owe us ?
When the Labour government (Scottish
Chancellors - Scottish Prime Minister) came to power in 1997, the
national debt was around £350 billion.
Shortly before Labour left office in 2010 it was forecasting a level
of about £1,400 billion in 2015.
Scottish bankers, e.g. the Royal Bank of Scotland, have played a disproportionately prominent role in reckless activity during the Labour years – the notion that banking excess is exclusive to London, a view common among Scots, is quite erroneous.
Under such circumstances, there
can be no case for an independent Scotland taking on anything less
than its fair share of the UK national debt.
If the Scottish National Party is serious about a referendum, there
now needs to be a UK-wide debate to determine what the Scottish
payment would be - including buying their bank back from us.
When we placed our country into the hands of David Cameron, we gave him
The very least he should do is hand the same back to his successor.


May Health Concern suggest a cheaper option ?
British Trains are the shortest in Europe .. and carry the fewest passengers per main-line train of any E.U. country.
Lengthen the existing trains by
adding more carriages.
(The longer Pendelino train is about to be introduced, anyway.)
Lengthen the platforms to cope.
Put advanced sat-nav. / radio / signalling in the existing cabs.
Ditch the Victorian timetable that says Birmingham / West Coast trains arrive in Euston and that passengers then have to drag their suitcases 6 city blocks to board HS1 trains at St. Pancras International.
Ask Alex Salmond to pay for any improvements to link Scotland through to the European network.
There you are .. a perfectly feasible, much cheaper solution. Job done.
The DfT has announced that
31 out of the 53 existing 9-car sets will be lengthened to 11 cars to
increase capacity.
"The longer units will require major infrastructure changes to
allow stations and depots to accommodate the 11-car units."
David says that he will deliver TWO MAJOR CHANGES in NHS service ..
Nurses have been told to do regular ward rounds
Patients will be encouraged to carry out inspections to improve hospital standards.
And what will be the THIRD improvement which might follow ?

Why, David will provide all nurses with flashlights .. .. and then we really will be back to the "jolly-old-days" of the Crimean War.
WHEN did YOU last see
regular "Ward Rounds" ?
Except at the old Selly Oak Hospital - where the military influence
pervaded all levels - and where consultants rounds coincided with
visitors hours one day out of five (so that families got to talk
to the specialist about the treatment regime).
Florence Nightingale.
OM, RRC (12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910)
Celebrated English nurse, writer and statistician who came to prominence
for her pioneering work in nursing during the Crimean War where she
tended to wounded soldiers.
She was dubbed "The
Lady with the Lamp" after her habit of making rounds at
night.

An Anglican, Nightingale believed that God had called her to be a nurse
and she laid the foundation of professional nursing with the
establishment, in 1860, of her nursing school at St Thomas' Hospital in
London, the first secular nursing school in the world, now part of
King's College London. The Nightingale Pledge taken by new nurses was
named in her honour, and the annual International Nurses Day is still
celebrated around the world on her birthday.
The Original Pledge
"I solemnly pledge myself before God and the presence of this
assembly;
To pass my life in purity and to practice my profession faithfully.
I will abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous and will
not take or knowingly administer any harmful drug.
I will do all in my
power to maintain and elevate the standard of my profession and will
hold in confidence all personal matters committed to my keeping and
family affairs coming to my knowledge in the practice of my
calling."
In modern times, a number of institutions have modified or dropped the pledge altogether .. and haven't we noticed the difference.

1st. January will see the introduction of a revised 'Blue Badge' disabled parking scheme in which disabled drivers will be able to apply for an electronically printed badge, much like a driving licence.

"Motorists who
pretend to be disabled to get some free parking are frankly disgraceful.
They prevent real blue badge holders from using parking bays designed
for those genuinely in need and they cheat the vast majority of road
users who play fair when they park their cars."
Norman
Baker - Transport Minister -
Lib-Dem MP for Lewes
There are an estimated 2.5
million blue badges in circulation, allowing drivers to park on yellow
lines as well as avoid parking and congestion charges.
Severely injured war veterans and children under three who need bulky
medical equipment are also entitled to badges.
Other measures being introduced
from 1st. January include the ability for badge holders to apply for
renewals online.
Local councils in England and Scotland will be able to charge
up to £10 and £20 respectively for a blue badge - and up to £10 for
an organisational badge and to replace lost badges.
Welsh disabled drivers will get blue parking badges for free, the Welsh
government, who have about 230,000 badges in circulation, has announced.
To help pay for this programme
the government plan to save more than £1m a year by withdrawing local
newspaper adverts which inform motorists of pending road-works.
Dr Andy Williams, of Cardiff university's school of journalism,
said
"It's going to be a significant loss for an ailing industry
and it's going to impact badly. At the moment things are looking pretty
bad for the regional and local press in Wales."

ω−3 fatty acids
In a study on 104 participants by
Oregon Health and Science University, Portland VA Medical Center, and
Oregon State University, Corvallis, of a revised diet regime followed by
brain scans, researchers found that those who had more vitamin B, C, D
and E in their blood performed better in tests of memory and thinking
skills.
People with high levels of omega 3 fatty acids - found mainly in fish -
also had high scores.
Conversely, those who had more trans fats in their blood (trans fats are common in processed foods, including cakes, biscuits and fried foods) were linked to lower scores in the tests and displayed a brain shrinkage typical of Alzheimer's !
Diet can stop your brain shrinking !
A diet rich in vitamins and fish may protect the brain from ageing while junk food has the opposite effect, this research suggests.
"The best current advice is
to eat a balanced diet with plenty of fruit and vegetables, not smoke,
take regular exercise and keep blood pressure and cholesterol in
check."
Dr Simon Ridley - Alzheimer's Research UK
Nutritionally
important, n−3 fatty acids include α-linolenic acid
(ALA), eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), all
of which are polyunsaturated.
Common sources of n–3 fatty acids include fish oils and plant
oils such as flaxseed oil, algal oil and hemp seed oil.
Global food companies have added n−3 fatty acid to
fortified bread, mayonnaise, pizza, yogurt, orange juice, children's
pasta, milk, eggs, popcorn, confections, and infant formula.

The Trading Standards Institute (TSI) has asked people to take extra care when buying alcohol over the Christmas / New Year period.
Bootleg Vodka is becoming more commonly available - with more than 2,000 counterfeit bottles being seized each week in raids across central parts of England.
Costing as little as £6 - and often
'brewed' rather than distilled in factory units - they are a combination
of cheap industrial chemicals which bear little relationship to the real
product.
Student Amy Baskerville who attended A&E when feeling ill 'the
morning after' was told by TSI that she had consumed a combination of
Health experts are worried about the number of people coming into A&E thinking they've had their drink spiked when they have been poisoned by fake alcohol.
"The worst thing is if you
drink too much of this stuff, you can get kidney failure, you can get
liver failure. If it contains methanol (a racing car alternative to
petrol) it can lead to permanent blindness."
Dr Vikas Sodiwala - consultant in emergency medicine at Lincoln
County hospital.
Symptoms of alcohol poisoning
- Confusion
- Loss of co-ordination
- Vomiting
- Irregular or slow breathing
- Blue-tinged or pale skin
- Low body temperature (hypothermia)
- Stupor (being conscious but unresponsive)
- Unconsciousness (passing out)
Source: Institute of Psychiatry, London

"Legal Eagles" Leigh Day & Co, the law firm which has won the largest-ever group claim against a single NHS hospital*, said they believed that the families who had contacted them so far about a "class action" against the Alexandra Hospital, Redditch, may represent "the tip of the iceberg".
[* - 119 victims of the Stafford hospital scandal]
23 families have contacted them with "shocking" claims of indignities and the most basic failings in care, including_
Death rate statistics at
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals trust, which runs the hospital, were 10
per cent higher than the national average.
That's 239 deaths more
than would be expected.
A 2011 Health Service Ombudsman review condemned the service for its "inhumane treatment of the elderly" - with patients' basic needs failing to be met, many left hungry, unwashed or given the wrong drugs - and all because of the "casual indifference of staff".
The legal action comes after the Care
Quality Commission (CQC) published the findings of spot check visits to
100 hospitals to inspect the care of the elderly in October and half were
found to be failing basic standards.
The "major concerns" at Alexandra Hospital were
so fundamental that it was warned in May that it was breaking the law.
And the statement issued in reply ?.
"We actively encourage
patient and family feedback and where there is any indication that
standards of care fall short of the high standards we expect all staff
to deliver we will always address it."
Helen Blanchard, the trust's Director of Nursing and Midwifery
'Oh .. Helen .. !'
The phrase "cheese-eating
surrender monkeys" first appeared in the 1995 episode
"'Round Springfield" of The Simpsons cartoon series.
Budget cuts at Springfield Elementary School force the janitor
Groundskeeper Willie to become a French teacher. Expressing his disdain
for the French people, he exclaims to his class in his Scottish accent:
"Bonjour, you cheese-eating surrender monkeys."
When "'Round Springfield" was dubbed in French, the word
"surrender" was omitted and the line became "singes
mangeurs de fromage".

Christian Noyer
Born 6 October 1950 in Soisy-sous-Montmorency, Val-d'Oise) is a French higher civil servant, current governor of the Bank of France (since 2003), and former vice-president of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank (1998–2002).
In March 2010 he became Chairman of the Bank for International Settlements.
Following Standard and Poor's recent
warning that France could lose it's cherished 'AAA' credit-rating over
the Eurozone crisis, we now have the baleful bleating of Christian
Noyer, chairman of the French central bank, saying that ...
"Non, .. it is 'perfidious Albion' that should suffer, first."
Speaking to French regional newspaper Le
Telegramme, Mr Noyer said that GB has ..
"more deficits, as much debt, more inflation, & less growth
..
Agencies should downgrade the UK before France."
These are rather extraordinary comments
for a central banker .. but Mr. Noyer proceeded to petulantly stamp his
foot, adding that "agencies had become incomprehensible and
irrational".
(Yes, of course they have .. to a Frenchman, everyone else appears
irrational.)
Losing its top credit grade would have serious economic implications
for France since it would increase the interest rates charged for new
state borrowing.
He is obviously frustrated that last week's summit seems to have done little to calm the financial markets - and is oblivious to the fact that intensive consultations are still to begin, producing details of a treaty which will then have to be considered at yet another EU summit .. in late January or early February .. (if ever, if the Euro has "crashed and burnt" before then).

François Baroin
(born 21 June 1965 in Paris), a lawyer, recently appointed Finance Minister, following a stint as Minister of the Budget in the François Fillon III government.
He is a long-time ally of Jacques Chirac and, currently, the mayor of Troyes.
MInd you, he was only following the
example set by the French Finance Minister
Francois Baroin who, in the French parliament, poked fun at Britain,
saying David Cameron (and Nick Clegg)'s recent veto is ..
".. an audacious choice which the singular, solitary,
marginalised British government has made."
Britain was NOT identified as a credit risk by Standard and Poor's in its report earlier this month.
The Hungarian and the Czech Republics raised concerns on Thursday about the plans for a closer fiscal union, saying they should apply only to Eurozone states.
"There are more .. questions than answers .. "
Johnny Nash - No 9 for 9 weeks -
Oct 1972
The Guiness Book of British Hit
Singles

Somethin' ain't right, somewhere .. !
On the one hand, Prime Minister David Cameron said the 2011 rioting had been driven by criminality and was devoid of political meaning .. yet a study by the London School of Economics and the Guardian newspaper cite anger at policing practices as a key factor in why violence happened.
Oh, and .. by-the-way .. is that the same LSE that's currently embroiled in granting Gadaffi's son a PhD (with rumours of plagiarism and ghost-writing) and of receiving enormous 'gifts' of dosh at (utterly coincidentally) one and the same time ?
Remember when four consecutive nights of looting and arson in August left five people dead and led to more than 4,000 suspects being arrested after riots broke out in Tottenham, north London (06/08/11) two days after the fatal shooting by police of 29-year-old Mark Duggan, and which subsequently spread to other parts of the capital and Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham and Salford ?

And something is particularly wrong when, on the other hand, the opinions voiced in the study cite_
- "collective pessimism" among young people
( 59% of those interviewed were unemployed )- rioters identifying a range of political grievances
- there is a pervasive sense of injustice
- they are frustrated with their daily interactions with the police
( hassled & bullied - not treated as equals )- 70% of the rioters said they had been stopped and searched in the last year ( unfairly targeted )
- time and again interviewees described the violence as a chance to get back at the police ( "It was war" )
What is most perplexing is that these attitudes will be at complete variance with those of most of the public living in Wyre Forest .. where ..
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WE
LOOK TO THE POLICE TO DEFEND US |
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So, do the combined 'talents' of The Guardian and the LSE provide us with the answers ? NO.
Would we fare any better reading "Five
Days In August", the interim report by the independent panel
set-up by the Government to 'explore the causes of the riots' ? NO.
[Link to 'Have your
say'- deadline 1st Feb 2012]
You would find more statistics and facts .. but answers .. ? NONE.
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We will find the answers in ..
"Out Of The Ashes - Britain After The Riots" .. by David Lammy. (£9.99)
The son of Caribbean immigrants, he grew-up next to the Broadwaters Farm estate but 'left the ghetto' by virtue of a choral scholarship to Kings (the boarding-school of Peterborough Cathedral choir). After studying law at London and at Harvard he now represents the area in which he worked (at KFC).
He states that the riots were "..NOT criminality, pure and simple" but "sign-posts to the failures of successive governments to answer the challenges of a new era of economic and social liberalism".
But he condemns the 'New Liberalism' which "gives the impression that father-less homes 'do not matter' .."
.. and he quotes one in four children [ 1 in 4 ] now being brought-up in a one-parent family ..
.. and that only two [ 2 ] of the local boys arrested in Tottenham was from a 'nuclear family' (i.e. both parents still living in the home)
He desires people to have ".. a stake in capitalism AND a faith in the welfare state .. fulfilling the goals of both THATCHER and BEVERIDGE.
"We cannot live in a society where the Banks are 'too big to fail'
but whole communities can sink without trace."
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There was a Newsnight programme
(05/12/11) advertised as "an
in-depth report on the causes of the riots and how those who took part
feel about the events" - and was it ? and did it ?
Of course not ! In spite of Ian Blair (ex-Met), Lemmy, an
ex-judge, etc, etc; it was the typical Paxman 'stitch-up' - where he 'pax'
the panel out with too many voices, constantly interrupts, and cuts away
before any cogent point can be made so that he can ask his next
"penetrating" question.
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The number of British military personnel killed on operations in Afghanistan since 2001 stands at 397, after the recent deaths of_
| Undisclosed |
|
Undisclosed |
27/01/12 |
1st Battalion |
| Signaller Satorius-Jones Ian, 21 |
|
Runcorn |
24/01/12 |
200 - |
| Rifleman Limbu Sachin, 23 |
|
Rajghat, Morang, |
Sari-Bari Company |
2012
| Pte.
King John, 19 |
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Undisclosed |
30/12/11 |
1st. Batallion, |
| Sqn
Ldr Downing Anthony, 34 |
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Undisclosed |
23/12/11 |
R.A.F. |
| Captain
Jennings Tom, 29 |
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Undisclosed |
22/12/11 |
Royal Marines |
| Sapper Bond Elijah, 24 |
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St Austell, |
09/12/11 |
35 Engineer Regiment, |
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May we recommend this BBC "Wall of Pictures" of UK fatalities in Iraq and Afghanistan

Link to
The Royal British Legion (2008)
Registered Charity No 219279.
199 Borough High Street, London SE1 1AA, Telephone +44 (0)20 3207 2100
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Help for Heroes
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Registered Charity number 1120920
Steynings House, Summerlock Approach, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP2 7RJ
Current running total of donations _ £25.539,000
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The following quotation has been drawn to our attention .. equally significant during the Afghanistan conflict .. which originated at a dinner-party at Marl Bank, Little Malvern, hosted by Sir Edward Elgar, in the company of George Bernard Shaw and 'Lawrence of Arabia' ..
"Better
the Arabs do it tolerably than that you do it perfectly.
It is their war, and you are there to help them, ...
... not to win it for them."
T.E. Lawrence
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1.47.39 |
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$ 1.90.68 NZ |
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fell 2 cents |
1.92.75 |
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€ 1.18.98 EURO |
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fell 2¼ cents |
1.21.27 |
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