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The Princess Royal is due to lay a wreath during a ceremony at the scene The Princess Royal is to lay a wreath on the water at the scene of one of the darkest days in the history of British warfare. The battleship Royal Oak was...
Published Date: 14 October 2009 The sinking of the Royal Oak, STV The Marchioness: A Survivor's Story, BBC1 SEVENTY years ago, 833 men and boys were killed when HMS Royal Oak was sunk at Scapa Flow in Orkney by a German U-boat....
ORKNEY is a great place for cycling. The distances are short, especially on the small isles, the roads are mostly quiet and on a bicycle you appreciate the smells, sounds and feel of the country in a way impossible in a car.
Simon Brown, 41, dives Brighton Pier for the first time, see page 68. The freelance journalist and business consultant from Fleet in Hampshire wishes he'd taken a kit trolley along with him, as the 500m walk along the pier with...
Tadeusz Lesisz was one of the the world's last surviving veterans to have served as an officer from the first day of the Second World War until its end. As gunnery officer he sailed on Polish vessels under the command of the...
A 66-year-old spear-fisherman has gone missing in the Sound of Mull. A massive search involving the coastguard, lifeboat and helicopters was launched after the man's wife raised the alarm when he failed to return after several...
Published Date: 08 October 2009 POLICE yesterday named a diver who died off Orkney. Timothy Robin Slocombe, 61, who was from Powys, was pulled from the waters of Scapa Flow on Sunday. He had dived from the Triton diving vessel...
A diver who died after an incident in the Scapa Flow area of Orkney has been identified as a man from Wales. Timothy Slocombe, who was 61, of Welshpool, Powys, surfaced unconscious on Sunday. A lifeboat took him to be seen by...
A&E Television Networks' History channel and Scottish broadcaster STV have teamed up for a documentary about the sinking of a British battleship during the Second World War. One-hour doc The Sinking of the Royal Oak is a...
Today is Wednesday, October 14, the 287th day of 2009. The idea of a Peace Corps is first suggested by Democratic U.S. presidential candidate John F. Kennedy to an audience of students at the University of Michigan. U.S. civil...
