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... 7.00 NEWS SUMMARY 7.0 S 7 DAYS On the eve of Remembrance Sun* day, Walter Fenton (91), recalls the Battle of the Somme; and writer Mary Kelly discusses her hew book, Abortion: The Full Story. 7M STRANGERS ABROAD Bruce Dakowski retraces the steps of the ...

... cast gather for The Big Picnic (BBC 2 Bill Bryden's epic stage play (shown to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme), set in Govan, Glasgow, at the outbreak of the First World War. It features Aberdeen's Gary Bakewell (recently seen ...

... Darwin presented his theory on evolution and natural selection to the Linnean Society in London. 1916 First day of the battle of the Somme in World War 1 in less than 24 hours there were 60.000 British casualties. 1929 The cartoon character Popeye the Sailor ...

... of Mexico,” as his subject and industrial relations officer, David Stevenson (29), from Stirlingshire, goes for “The Battle of the Somme. ...

... born in Cambrai, France. He was the first person to come to Britain without arriving by sea. 1916 First day of the battle of the Somme in World War 1. In less than 24 hours there were 60,000 British casualties. 1969 Prince Charles was invested as Prince ...

... of the championships while Gerald Williams collates the stories making today's news. 11.00 THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME The first day of the Battle of the Somme was the worst in British military history In less than 24 hours 60,000 British soldiers became ...

... Gardner's last sentence than the Battle of the Somme. The High Command's plan was to break the deadlock of trench warfare in one block-busterlng attack. Jolfre it was who chose the virtually impregnable German position on the Somme as the vital battleground ...

... At the outbreak of World War I. s in Spain, and he returned home to join the 4th Gordons. After being wounded in the battle of the Somme, he was commissioned in the Royal Garrison Artiliery, with which he served until the end of the war. Mr Murray has lectured ...

... Bloody horror of the Somme ACTOR Leo McKern narrates the BBC 1 Documentary (9.55) commemorating the 60th anniversary of 'The Battle of the Somme.” He tells of events on the site where the battle wa* fought, in the heart of French Picardy. By turns he ...

... crowds who flocked to see it, as it was a recent innovation on the Western Front, having only been introduced during the Battle of the Somme, about 18 months before its arrival in Aberdeen. alfour Low pianes I LIVE in Springhill Crescent, right under the flight ...