Photos: (Credit: Alice Stott)
PR250817 Crew volunteers during the Champagne Challenge sailing event in the river Exe
Exmouth’s inshore lifeboat was called out twice over the weekend, assisting three people in difficulty. Crew volunteers were on exercise on their Shannon class lifeboat during the annual Champagne Challenge community sailing event.
Team Netherlands win gold in Jaguar Land Rover Driving Challenge at the Invictus Games Toronto 2017
Celebrating its 16th route launch out of 26 announced for this year, Budapest Airport has marked the commencement of its latest link, this time to Bordeaux in the much-acclaimed wine-growing region of France. Expanding its route network yet again, Wizz Air’s twice-weekly service to the south-west of France becomes the home-based airline’s 69th destination from Budapest.
News has surfaced that the number of DDoS attacks, with an average size over 50 Gbps, have quadrupled in the last two years. The study also found the gargantuan 1 Tbps attacks that started last year with the Mirai botnet have begun to leave their mark, with 42% of organizations reporting an average size of DDoS attacks greater than 50 Gbps, a significant increase from 2015, when only 10% of attacks were above that size.
British statesman and prime minister Neville Chamberlain (1869 – 1940) at Heston Airport on his return from Munich after meeting with Hitler, making his ‘peace in our time’ address. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)
Dejavu now waiting for the new Churchill to emerge and save Europe once more
So, how was it for you, the Florence Flop? For me it was – I realised afterwards – exactly like watching England play football. An inescapable patriotic urge to hope for a good performance, followed by a long, slow realisation that once again it isn’t going to happen, that these people are not as good as they ought to be, that the other team is not going to roll over.
After being crowned British GT4 champions at Donington Park last weekend (23 – 24 September) Will Tregurtha and Stuart Middleton’s class win marks the seventh Ginetta GT4 pairing to cinch victory in the class’ 10 year history.
Picture Flanagan Alpha Global Expedition collection
British solo-yachtsman facing the arctic sun as he navigates the Russian Northern Sea route in his 40 foot yacht Barabas. Adrian Flanagan set off from the Solent on the first vertical circumnavigation by sea (pole to pole) on28 October 2003, the smallest yacht to round Cape Horn West about, and still one of only a handful of yachts to make that passage, heading North up the Pacific an through the Bering Strait, along the Northern Sea Route, round Norway’s North Cape & South for home through the North Sea
ROUND THE WORLD SAILOR ADRIAN FLANAGAN BEING HANDED A CUP OF TEA BY CHIEF CHRIS BAMBER ON HMS TRUMPETER IN THE SOLENT.PICTURE BY STEVE REIGATE 21/5/2008
ROUND THE WORLD SAILOR ADRIAN FLANAGAN ON BOARD HIS YACHT BARABUS IN THE SOLENT.PICTURE BY STEVE REIGATE 21/5/2008
Read Adrian’s account of his epic and historic voyage. FIRE Project review of the book http://tinyurl.com/y9629kp8
The Northern Sea Route (NSR) is the shortest sea route from Asia to Europe. According to experts, after 2050 it will be available for year-round passage of conventional vessels with no ice reinforcement. Given this, it is a good strategy right now to develop the NSR not only for pure export of natural resources from the Arctic zone or for the “Northern Supply”, but also for container transportation. In 2016, a model for creating a regular Arctic container line on the basis of the Northern Sea Route was developed. A niche where NSR shipments are more profitable compared to the southern route is the transit of container cargo between the ports of the Northeast Asia (China, Japan, the Republic of Korea) and North Europe (Rotterdam, Hamburg, etc.) The container traffic on routes where the use of the NSR can potentially give a significant payoff to carriers, is about 455 thousand TEU. The commissioning of new facilities for the production of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and the development of infrastructure in the Arctic will help significantly increase traffic along the NSR.
Air Commodore Rich Withnall, Medical Director UK Defence Medical Services; Bret Stevens, Director, Disability Evaluation Systems, Office of Warrior Care, USA; and Seamus O’Regan, Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence, at the Warrior Care symposium in Toronto on September 22, 2017.
Photo credit: Department of National Defence
September 23, 2017 – Ottawa – National Defence / Canadian Armed Forces
Hosted by the Canadian Armed Forces Surgeon General, Brigadier-General Andrew Downes, the third annual Warrior Care in the 21st Century symposium, held in Toronto, September 21-23, brought together representatives of over 160 nations to facilitate the global sharing of best practices and lessons learned around the care of military personnel. This was the first time that Canada had hosted the symposium.
(Saturday 23rd September, Menorca) – Winning the final regatta of the year to become the only crew to win two events in 2017, the Roemmers family’s Azzurra which represents the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda are the new 52 SUPER SERIES champions.
Last week over 30,000 Change Britain supporters reminded Members of Parliament that we wanted them to pass the Government’s Repeal Bill so Theresa May could get on with the process of taking back control. |
