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Queen's Birthday parade; Falklands Landholding; Medivac.
Celebration of Her Majesty's 78th birthday
The Queen's birthday has been marked in Stanley with the traditional parade and flypast, accompanied by The Normandy band of the King's Division. The Normandy band of the King's Division there accompanying representatives from the Royal Navy, Army, RAF and FIDF, who assembled on the front road for inspection by His Excellency the Governor Howard Pearce and Commander of British Forces Air Commodore Richard Lacey. Members of youth groups were also there, ranging from the sea cadets to the rainbows, brownies, cubs, scouts and guides.
Falklands Landholding SEVEN hundred and fifty two bales of Falklands Landholdings wool were dispatched from the Islands last month confirmed Landholdings Manager Owen Summers at yesterday's meeting of the board. The majority of this wool on the ship is already sold, but a small percentage travels unsold. Mr Summers said a concerted effort was being made to get the remaining wool cored for testing but this is not an easy task because of the amount of wool remaining in the warehouse. The meeting discussed the difficulties of lack of warehouse space that had been suffered this season. They acknowledged that the problem was not going to go away in the future and needed addressing
Medivac A crewman was airlifted from the Argos Pereira during last week end after getting his fingers crushed in a piston in the engine room. The RAF brought him into KEMH where staffs are understood to have saved the Peruvian's fingers and there are hopes he will be repatriated next Saturday. Minutes after receiving a call for help, Flight Lieutenants Sparky Dunlop, Charlie Logan, Patrick Thirkell and Sergeant Mark Lean, all from 78 Squadron, were flying to the rescue of the injured man some 40 miles off the West coast of West Falkland in their Sea King helicopter. Although weather conditions were favourable, Mark, the winch man was faced with landing on a deck being tossed around by a 15 foot swell, before he could aid the fisherman who was in great pain. As well as suffering crushed fingers and splintered bone, the Peruvian sailor had lost a significant amount of blood and although his hand was already well-bandaged by the time the RAF team arrived, he needed to reach hospital without delay. As Sparky and Charlie kept the helicopter hovering above the moving vessel, Patrick, the winch operator and Mark, who is medically trained to ambulance technician standard, carefully winched the fisherman on board. They ensured he was in a medically stable condition and administered pain relief for the hour-long journey back to Stanley hospital. Argos Group Ltd, who jointly operate the Argos Pereira with Armadora Pereira of Vigo, Spain have expressed their gratitude to the team by kindly donating £500.00 to the RAF Benevolent Fund.
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