I was born in Enniskillen. Could I find the truth about the Poppy Day bombing? 🎙️ Please do give a listen to this excellent new podcast from Fermanagh man and top journalist ⁦Mario Ledwith⁩ thetimes.com/article/d983fb…

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The group linked to al-Qaeda on the brink of seizing Mali’s capital thetimes.com/article/f0503c…

How Dresden rebuilt royal palace destroyed in 1945 bombing thetimes.com/article/fb2a96…

⁦Mario Ledwith⁩ deserves so much thanks & praise for this extraordinary piece of investigative journalism. For myself a child who grew up in beautiful Fermanagh before & after the Poppy Day Bomb it still feels an unclosed & unjust chapter of tragedy podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the…

As people often say now in the culture “educate yourself” or “silence is violence” or “justice for all”. Well let me tell you a story about my childhood & the bomb that ripped apart the town I call home. Decades later from London, now peaceful Fermanagh suddenly seems near again.

The decision by Imperial War Museums to close the Lord Ashcroft Gallery was truly heartbreaking, but the stories of bravery told there must live on. I am delighted to announce the launch of a new virtual tour so you can see the Gallery for yourself 👇👇👇 👀 lordashcroftmedalcollection.com

Hundreds arrested in High Street crime crackdown bbc.com/news/articles/…

Residents forced out of newbuild seek more support bbc.com/news/articles/…

“At the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month – we will remember them.” #RemembranceDay 🇬🇧

One of the most intense and profound moments in history. 11am on the 11th November 1918 when the guns fell silent. This should be shown in every school.

A wonderful webinar coming up on the 20th November: cbcew.org.uk/webinar-taxati…

Capt Paul Abraham, steely Cold War submariner who became Teacher of the Perisher course – obituary telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/202…

Interesting footage of the badass British 22,000lb "Ten Ton Tessie" Grand Slam bomb loading onto a Lancaster and it's first use on the Bielefeld Viaduct on March 14th, 1945. If you look closely you can see how, by design, it creates a crater first and then explodes.👀

👏 Disability rights advocate Liz Carr (Liz "blue tick" Carr) notes that even though people with disabilities may have been physically present in the room during debates on assisted suicide, their views have still not been listened to.

Let's discuss… The Starstreak High Velocity Missile (HVM) A back-story, of the most badass missile on the planet

In September 1988 Shorts partnered with McDonnell Douglas Helicopters and Martin Marietta to integrate Starstreak HVM onto the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter for close-range air defence. This was called Helstreak

Some cool shots of the U.S. and Royal Navy launching and recovering Phantoms alongside each other on the USS Independence as part of exercise Passex in the Mediterranean in Nov. of '71. The Brits using Rolls-Royce Spey engines(More powerful but slower) for their F-4's and the US

So, the French manage to produce their own nuclear warheads with nuclear material from their own processing plants, using their own designs, carried on their own designed and built SLBMs, launched from their own nuclear submarines made with steel produced in their own foundries.

Jasmine Mitchell: My hair loss — and Bake Off win thetimes.com/article/c8f33c…