A number of critics of the one-sided handling of legacy in Northern Ireland were at Westminster yesterday to outline their concerns, including the former MP Danny Kinahan and the barrister Austen Morgan. They had earlier contributed to a seminar at Malone House in March, the contents of which have been turned into a book. Below is the talk that News Letter deputy editor Ben Lowry gave to that event. There have been a number of developments since the speech below, but that he says have merely reiterated his concerns: This week was a pretty standard week when it comes to legacy developments in Northern Ireland.Two judges decided that prosecutors had been wrong not to charge a soldier over a Troubles shooting in Londonderry.Last year the reverse happened in a case: a judge threw out an attempted murder charge against a soldier over a historic shooting but the Director of Public Prosecutions reinstated it.Also this week, the BBC had yet another news investigation into circumstances around … [Read more...] about Handing legacy to IRA is one of the biggest scandals since WW2
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British POWs sank on this WW2 ship
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Ex-England skipper Terry Butcher fights back tears as he accuses army of failing his ex-soldier son who died after battling PTSD
EX-ENGLAND skipper Terry Butcher fought back tears as he accused the Army of failing his ex-soldier son who died after battling PTSD. The former Ipswich defender, who found Chris Butcher dead in his room as he took him his morning cup of tea, said his son became a “victim of war”. An inquest today heard how his Captain son suffered extreme PTSD and was forced to leave the Army after struggling with “guilt and shame” after tours of Afghanistan and Iraq. He turned to drugs and alcohol to quiet the flashbacks, hallucinations and invasive voices. Chris sadly died from an enlarged heart "of unknown causes" after taking heroin – but the drugs in his system were not at a toxic level. His father found him in a bedroom of the family home in Woodbridge, Suffolk, last October, where he had been living after the mental torment led to troubles in his marriage. Butcher sat in front of the coroner in the brief hearing, where he was flanked by his son's widow, Laura, and … [Read more...] about Ex-England skipper Terry Butcher fights back tears as he accuses army of failing his ex-soldier son who died after battling PTSD
Adolf Hitler IS dead say scientists who debunked conspiracy theories using Nazi leader’s jawbone held in secret Russian vault
SCIENTISTS claim they can finally prove Adolf Hitler definitely died after taking cyanide and shooting himself in the head in his Berlin bunker. After studying the Nazi dictator’s jawbone and false teeth, French researchers say they can at last dispel decades-old conspiracy theories the Fuhrer was spirited away in 1945. Popular theories included the possibility he fled aboard a submarine to South America or even to a secret Nazi base in Antarctica. But rare access to fragments of Hitler’s teeth - held by the Russian government – is said to show he killed himself before German soldiers burnt his body, reports the Independent. Professor Philippe Charlier – the study’s lead author – told a French TV documentary it had been possible to compare Hitler’s dental records with the jawbone held in Russia. This enabled the German tyrant, who was 56 when he died, to be identified by his five false teeth. “We first identified him by … [Read more...] about Adolf Hitler IS dead say scientists who debunked conspiracy theories using Nazi leader’s jawbone held in secret Russian vault
‘Angel of Dieppe’ nun who saved the lives of British and Canadian soldiers during disastrous WW2 raid dies aged 103
A HEROIC nun known as the "Angel of Dieppe" for helping allied soldiers during a failed Second World War beach raid has died aged 103. The French coastal city of Dieppe says a special tribute will now be held to fearless Sister Agnes-Marie Valois on April 24. Dieppe Mayor Nicolas Langlois says flags have now been put at half-mast to pay tribute to "a great lady of our history." Most of the soldiers injured and killed during the raid on August 19, 1942 were Canadian, as were the troops the French nun cared for. Troops found themselves blocked from access points by concrete obstacles and overwhelmed by German firepower. Within 10 hours, some 3,367 soldiers had been killed or captured. Valois, who also worked as a nurse at the Dieppe hospital during the war, was living in retirement at a monastery when she died on Thursday. The nun became a Canadian military legend for treating soldiers captured by German forces after the failed landing. According to legend, when a German officer … [Read more...] about ‘Angel of Dieppe’ nun who saved the lives of British and Canadian soldiers during disastrous WW2 raid dies aged 103