A first for women

How fitting for International Women’s Day; Kathryn Bigelow becomes the first woman to win best director at the Oscars, as The Hurt Locker wins the best film prize.

2010 is the 82nd time the gold statues have been awarded so why then has it taken so long for a women to win?

Let’s hope the publicity associated

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Flash, bang, we're here

Thirty years ago today the Special Air Service (S.A.S.) stormed the Iranian Embassy in London and into the glare of the world’s media spotlight; their days of relative anonymity were over.

This elite fighting force is without equal; their operational successes largely unpublished, the ones we know about are often beyond public comprehension.

The S.A.S. are an

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