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Many of you who own
homes will recognise the moment – our mortgage deal is coming to an end and
it’s time to shop around for a new one.

So the World Cup’s
here – and that’s “football”, not “soccer”, all the bores insist.

But this week a radio
cl...

Bad
times for the Ministry of Defence, who organized a media day for journalists to
take turns firing latest weapons now used by Our Boys out in Afghanistan.

Here's the official version, including US officers praising RAF firefighters for their part in fighting the massive blaze in Camp Leatherneck, the American base next to the UK's Camp Bastion in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
What they don't talk about is the amount of US kit that got destroyed in th...

So there we were eating our tea in one of
the many dining halls in Kandahar Airfield on Saturday night.

We’d been running around all day trying to cover
David Beckham’s surprise arrival in Afghanistan, and now it was time to grab a
quick bite before checking in for our plane h...

 

Big excitement in Afghanistan when it
emerged that David Beckham was on his way.

Becks was by all accounts perfectly
charming.