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World War Two veteran Bill Gladden, from Haverhill, Suffolk, was taken by The Taxi Charity to Normandy to revisit the Normandy barn where his life was saved.

Charles Debono looks back at the crash of Pilot Officer Walter ‘Pips’ Cripps on April 26, 1942. On April 26, 1942, Air Officer Commanding Malta, Air Vice Marshal Hugh Lloyd was advised that an intercept of Luftwaffe Enigma traffic indicated that some units of Fliegerkorps II were preparing to leave Sicily. Meanwhile, an air raid warning was sounded at about 2.28pm, where a total of 55 Junkers Ju88s and 15 Junkers Ju87 Stukas appeared over Malta and attacked Ta’ Qali, Luqa, the Grand Harbo...

Medicine Goes To War Miracle drugs, new techniques, flying ambulances, ... Right on the battlefield military medicine is saving lives as never before September 1 1943 WALLACE REYBURN I WAS riding up Regent Street in a bus. The bus was crowded and I stood on the back platform. As the conductress came down the stairs she had to elbow her way through the cluster of passengers. I remarked to her: “You must find this an awfully tiring job.” “Not me, I c...

32,539 people received the ‘AstraZeneca Covishield’ vaccine on Saturday (30) 32,539 people received the ‘AstraZeneca Covishield’ vaccine on Saturday (30) Written by Share: Colombo (News 1st);  32,539 people were immunized with following the jabbing of the ‘AstraZeneca Covishield’ vaccine across Sri Lanka. On Friday (29) 5,286 people received the ‘AstraZeneca Covishield’ vaccine and the total number of people who received the vaccine stands at 37,825. Jabbing of the ‘AstraZ...