The Spanish Ministry of Defence has announced that its advanced frigate the Cristóbal Colón will sail to Cyprus to defend the island. It is set to get there at roughly the same time HMS Dragon leaves port in Britain…
The frigate is currently sailing with the French aircraft carrier the Charles de Gaulle for training tasks in the Baltic Sea. Along with the French and some Greek vessels it will now head to the eastern Mediterranean, reaching Crete on March 10. Meanwhile the Dragon is still undergoing pre-launch maintenance until that point…
Spain, led by socialist Pedro Sanchez, has criticised Trump repeatedly and refused to provide support for the Iran operation. Gulf allies are raging at UK inaction and Cyprus’s high commissioner to the UK said the “least” he expected was for the UK to be able to defend its bases. Photographs from the Sun confirm that the damage from a ‘Shahed-style’ drone on RAF Akrotiri actually hit a hangar allegedly containing US military assets – contradicting what Yvette Cooper previously told broadcasters. It’s OK -Britain is sending… John Healey to Cyprus…
FLASHBACK:
Statement by Paul Dacre, Editor-in-Chief of Associated Newspapers Limited, following Harry’s loss in court today:
“Prince Harry wrote a sad book which boasted about his killing of 25 Taliban, his drug-taking and, in cringe-making detail, how he lost his virginity. There isn’t a laundry in the cosmos big enough to wash all the dirty linen he has aired about his own family. For him, to complain about HIS privacy being invaded takes, not just the biscuit, but the whole tin. Poor Harry. I feel sorry for the way a confused and angry young man has been drawn into this case. The bitter irony is that his mother, Diana, liked the Mail. We were her paper. We took her side in her acrimonious break up with Charles. She and I would speak and meet. The Mail’s superb royal reporter was her friend and confidante. The truth is that this trumped-up action – which has cost well over £50 million and wasted a huge amount of valuable court time – should never have been brought to trial. That it did, raises profoundly disturbing questions about the conduct of elements of the legal profession. Today’s verdict is not just a victory for Associated’s magnificent journalists – several of whom have had a terrible toll imposed on their health and lives – but a free press generally. Make no mistake. This was a conspiracy, supported by Hacked Off, to destroy a paper. Financed by the orgy-loving, racist Max Mosley and involving the actor Hugh Grant, it was also a sinister bid to resuscitate Leveson Two and impose statutory regulation on the press which, even now, is rearing its ugly head in Labour’s Media Green Paper.”