I suspect the reporter has no idea why it’s come to be there in the first place

BBMF also doubled back for the funeral of the Queen Mother when they arrived too early as the funeral cortege was just turning into The Mall and past over a second time when the cortege was mid-way up the Mall.

It was in a TV series called “All Our Working Lives” in the early 80s. Each programme covered a different industry each week, the mines, shipbuilding etc. His was obviously in the one that covered the aviation industry. A lot of these programmes were “revisited” on BBC4 a couple of months ago, but not, I think, the aviation industry programme. Hope that helps.

I did have it on video. Not sure if I’ve still got it, I’m afraid.

Terrorists break into Woodford and plant bombs, which destroy Nimrod MR4s. Terrorists caught and are given life in prison.

OR

Mix of civil servants and uniformed goons decide we cannot afford to introduce into service the Nimrod MR4, so order that they be scrapped. Mix of civil servants and uniformed idiots are then promoted and/or received knighthoods and big pensions.

Now the above is what I think I can get away with. What I would like to write would probably get me into some serious trouble. I think Spike Milligan had the right idea: Line up the [rude word] and shoot them with a blunderbuss filled with their own s**t.

Err, Phillip it’s the elected politicians who make the final decisions.

that’s Thatcher still off the hook, she didn’t become an MP until 1959

Good to see Hajo Herrman on fine form, complaining that it was RAF Bomber Command that started boming cities for no reason (and set the pattern for that type of warfare) and Germany just responded. He seems to have forgotten about Warsaw, Rotterdam etc. A brave man, no doubt, but a bit selective with his memory. This really should have been challenged.

Very sad news – met him on a couple of occasions a real gent

I must read the question in future! I think you’ll find that regards the wings he was given special consideration by the Air Board to wear the wings on account of learning to fly while with the Admiralty in 1911. He was Churchill after all.