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5 days ago · David Stirling, its founder, saw the potential for a strike force that could operate independently deep behind enemy lines, attacking airfields and other important targets. By the end of the war the SAS had expanded into a brigade and had seen action in Italy, France, the Netherlands, and Germany.
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3 days ago · The Elizabeth Line has won the UK’s top architecture prize, with judges praising the cross-London railway as a “triumph of architect-led collaboration” and an “exemplar of inclusive design ...
8 hours ago · Trade peaked at £4000 for the reserve lamb champion from David Baillie, Calla. Sired by a £4500 Achdregnie tup and out of a 8500gns gimmer bought from Thomas Harkin, he sold to the Hamilton family, Woolfords. Woolfords also bought the second top priced lamb from Neil Kydd, Glenhead, at £2800.
5 days ago · Scotland claimed few victories over English forces in medieval times. One of the greatest of Scotland's battlefield triumphs was at Stirling Bridge, in the late 13th Century, and one of the commanders delivering that victory was the famous William Wallace.
1 day ago · List of British generals and brigadiers. This is a list of people who have held general officer rank or the rank of brigadier (together now recognized as starred officers) in the British Army, Royal Marines, British Indian Army or other British military force since the Acts of Union 1707.
4 days ago · The English Civil War was a series of civil wars and political machinations between Royalists and Parliamentarians in the Kingdom of England [ b ] from 1642 to 1651. Part of the wider 1639 to 1653 Wars of the Three Kingdoms, the struggle consisted of the First English Civil War and the Second English Civil War.
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2 days ago · Former Metropolitan Police officer David Carrick has appeared in court charged with multiple sex attacks on a woman and a girl under 14. The 48-year-old is accused of two counts of rape, one count of sexual assault, and one count of coercive and controlling behaviour in relation to the woman between 2014 and 2019 in Stevenage, Hertfordshire. He ...
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