An RAF veteran who flew the last Lancaster back to Britain during the Second World War has finally been awarded his medal, eight years after he became eligible for one. Former Squadron Leader Ken Symonds, 97, lost an engine during the final raid of Bomber Command's Europe offensive above Berchestgaden in the Bavarian Alps, where Adolf Hitler holidayed in his Eagles Nest retreat. Damage caused to Sq Ldr Symonds’s plane meant his was the last to return to RAF Syerston following the sortie on April

image of schoolboy Sebastian Kalinowski in his school uniform with his hands clasped together after his

apparent oversight of advised health measures.Xi and Pakistan President Arif Alvi clasped hands

clasped them in a hug.... Each count carries a potential five-year prison sentence and fines.It was the

daughters who were present and clasped them in a hug. Outside the courthouse, Fortenberry said the

Savannah's busy shipping channel surfaced with one the cannons clasped in its metal jaws.... The crew

The Armed Forces minister has said the UK will continue to bring Afghans to the UK “ for as long as people who are eligible want to come ” as troops who airlifted more than 15, 000 people from the country are set to receive a medal for their efforts. James Heappey told LBC that the Ministry of Defence( MoD) continued to bring around 250 people a week out of Afghanistan mostly through Pakistan, despite the winding down of Operation Pitting in August last year, and that this would continue “ indef

The graves of two soldiers who were killed on the Western Front during the First World War while serving with Irish regiments have been rededicated in Belgium more than 100 years after they died. Captain Hugh Mortimer Travers and Serjeant Frederick Cardy were remembered in services organised by the Ministry of Defence’s Joint Casualty and Compassionate Centre( JCCC). The services were held at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s( CWGC) New Irish Farm Cemetery and White House Cemetery, near Y

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Saquib Ali is an apprentice at Hi-Tech Electronics, one of a string of shops in Karachi’s Defence commercial area that specialises in repairing household appliances like air conditioners and refrigerators.... As Pakistan’s summer months approach, his days have already become busy.... Photo by Zofeen T. Ebrahim/ The Third Pole Unlike their problematic predecessors chlorofluorocarbons, HFCs do not deplete the Earth’s protective ozone layer....