Posted on 12 June 2010.
By Georga Spottiswood The dad of a soldier killed in Afghanistan has climbed the highest peaks in the country to raise money to help build a memorial wall. Tom Cuthbertson, whose son Nathan, 19, was killed in a suicide attack in June 2008, tackled Ben Nevis, in Scotland, Scafell Pike, in Cumbria, and Snowdon, in [...]
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Posted on 19 January 2010.
Hi There, Just came across your website for the first time and am very impressed. I don’t know whether the attached is of any interest to you or whether any of your readers might be of help to me in researching my father’s WW1 army service history. As will be seen from the attachment, there [...]
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Posted on 29 August 2008.
Memorial park to murdered officer Sgt Bill Forth was murdered whilst on duty in 1993 A refurbished park named in memory of a murdered police officer is being officially opened by his mother. The Bill Forth Memorial Park Doorstep Green at Fence Houses in County Durham has been given a £190,000 refurbishment over the past [...]
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tech: Hello Billy, I hope you are still playing the Fenc...
Billy Waites: Hi Norman,
i dont think you will know me but im s...
Billy Waites: Hi Ian,
I was brought up in Fence Houses and stil...
Peter Curran: Shirley, you are right. The first unfinished house...
norman sweeting: Was Morris Hahn any relation to you, I remember Mo...
