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The movie that mattered to me
New Delhi :: India | 5 days ago
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The idea that someone is so overwhelmed by an individual film that it changes their lives and turns them, almost instantly, into a movie director is, perhaps, far-fetched. For most of the interviewees here, it was not a case of a single "Rosebud" moment.
Tags: Pachhim Manoj Kumar, Indian, England, Gurinder Chadha Purab, aur pachhim, RAF, purab aur, India, New Delhi, Purab Aur Paschim, Apocalypse Now, Manoj Kumar, Che, The End, Citizen Kane, Entertainment Culture
After the deluge, the clear up
Lisbon :: Portugal | 9 days ago
Credibility After the deluge, a sodden Cumbria begins to clear up It was two days after the heaviest rainfall in British history and with more rain starting to fall some residents of Cockermouth were only just being rescued from their homes...Others were left wondering...
Tags: Cockermouth, Environment Agency, flooding defence, Waterloo Street, Jeremy Barton, Wordsworth House, RAF, Portugal, Lisbon, Environment, William Wordsworth, Flood, Disaster Accident
First female helicopter crew takes on Taliban
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 10 days ago
Credibility The four women are expected to fly a number of missions taking troops and supplies to the frontline against the Taliban in Helmand. They will also airlift casualties to the hospital at Camp Bastion. The crew includes Flight-Lieutenant Michelle Goodman,...
Tags: helicopter crew, Afghanistan, RAF, Joanna Watkinson, female helicopter, Michelle Goodman, Kabul, War in Afghanistan, Loadmaster, Royal Air Force, War Conflict, Islamic terrorism, Islamism, Taliban
The 26-year-old victim of the First World War
Wetteren :: Belgium | 11 days ago
Credibility Mait� Roël is just 26 and she is the youngest victim of the First World War. And when she walks to meet me past the old churchyard in her village of Bovekerke, she limps, ever so slightly, on her left leg, the living ghost of all those mutilated, long-dead...
Tags: world war, Mait� Roël, RAF, left leg, Bovekerke, Wetteren, Belgium, youngest victim, Menin Gate, Battle of the Somme, World War I, War Conflict, Ypres, Marine Corps Martial Arts Program, Ypres Salient
Nick Anstee steps into battle to preserve City’s supremacy
Brussels :: Belgium | 17 days ago
Credibility Martin Waller reports on his aims for the year Martin Waller Nick Anstee is the 682nd Lord Mayor of London, with a career stretching over three decades as a City accountant. In another reality he could have been flying Tornadoes for the RAF. He took...
Tags: lord mayor, Martin Waller Nick Anstee, London Symphony Orchestra, London Marathon Ltd, Mr Anstee, RAF, SJ Berwin Board, City, corporation finance, Belgium, Brussels, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Arthur Andersen, SJ Berwin, Stamford Connecticut, London, Local government in London, City of London, Lord Mayor of the City of London
'Sir Keith Park saved us, and the world'
London :: United Kingdom | 27 days ago
Credibility Leslie Johnson's sculpture of Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park is unveiled on the fourth plinth. Photograph: Zak Hussein/PA Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park commanded 11 Group of Fighter Command, responsible for defending London and the south-east.
Tags: sir keith, RAF, London, hero sir, fourth plinth, Britain, marshal sir, air chief, Keith Park, raf hero
Army Head Supports Afghan Forces Boost
Kabul :: Afghanistan | about 1 month ago
Credibility His comment comes as the coalition commander in Afghanistan , US General Stanley McChrystal, is requesting up to 40,000 additional troops. Gen McChrystal's plan is reported to have met with a cool reception in Washington where Vice President Joe Biden...
Tags: Afghanistan, Royal Navy, Aircraftsman Marcin Wojtak, RAF, troop boost, Nato, uk general, Taliban
Leaflets dropped from RAF plane kills Afghan girl
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | 2 months ago
Credibility Box of leaflets dropped from RAF plane kills Afghan girl Ministry of Defence says box should have broken up mid-air but instead fell in one piece Adam Gabbatt and agencies A box of leaflets dropped by an RAF plane in Afghanistan landed on and killed...
Tags: leaflets dropped, RAF, afghans girl, Ministry of Defence, young girl, Afghanistan, box failed, plane kills, raf plane, kills afghans, Kandahar
UK may quit buying Eurofighters
London :: United Kingdom | 4 months ago
Credibility Although Davies did not rule out possible future plans to buy more of the aircraft, he said that "there is no present intent (for any purchases), nor any expectation from our partners nor any obligation." The fighters are among the 112 which Britain,...
Tags: BAE Systems of Britain, RAF, Spain, Italy, Germany
Search continues for men missing from beach
Somerset :: NJ :: USA | 5 months ago
Credibility A major search and rescue operation is under way in Somerset after two men went missing after swimming out to sea. Swansea Coastguard is co-ordinating the search for the men, both understood to be aged 34, who went into the Bristol channel on yesterday...
Tags: Somerset, men missing, Weston-super-Mare, RAF
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