Mike Sadler, who has died aged 103, was a former MI6 officer and an honorary member of “the Originals”, as men of L Detachment of the early SAS are known. He was believed to be the last survivor of the Long Range Desert Group or LRDG, without which the fledgling SAS might not have thrived. He also has a piece of the Antarctic named after him.
One of the largest Indian civil contracting companies in interested in building proposed war memorial hospitals in Zimbabwe which will have a section catering specifically for issues that affect the country’s liberation fighters. War Veterans Minister Christopher Mutsvangwa told Parliament last week that President Robert Mugabe was avidly following this matter up during his visit