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Written by Dr Tim Whelan (L. 1969-74)
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Tuesday, 17 November 2009 |
I am sorry to have to report the death here on the Isle of Wight on 28 October of Col. Gibson. I had seen DTWG intermittently, socially, over the years, and can vouch for the fact that he remained remarkably alert and interested until very near the end of his 92 years. He taught physics and ran the RN section of the CCF at the College. I have always been conscious of his personal influence, for he inadvertently curtailed my early ambitions to join the Royal Navy, and subsequently his one-to-one physics tuition in the final Oxbridge entrance term propelled me into Cambridge to read medicine instead.
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Written by Holly Colvin (F. 2003-08)
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Monday, 15 December 2008 |
 Holly has travelled to Sydney, Australia to play her winter cricket and will join up with the England team for the Women’s World Cup in March.
"Having been in the country for a little over 24 hours, I was off to my first match for the Red Royals (one of the four teams which make up the NSW Power Education Challenge tournament - consisting of the state's best players). On a scorching hot day of 30°C, I was happy with figures of 2-18 and my new found nickname of Squishy. The next morning was an early start to Waitara, my home ground, to play for Northern District in two Twenty20 games. We lost both games. The first to Gordon by 7 runs and the second to Sydney by 8 wickets.
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Written by Alex Bremer (R. 1979-83)
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Thursday, 01 June 2006 |
 One of the most enduring mysteries of the Cold War - who killed Commander Lionel "Buster" Crabb? - may finally have been solved.
A retired Russian frogman claimed that he cut the British diver's throat in Portsmouth harbour when he caught him placing a mine on the hull of a ship that had brought Nikita Khrushchev and other Soviet leaders to Britain in April 1956.
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Written by Claire Ellis (W. 1992-95)
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Wednesday, 06 June 2007 |
 When I think about my walk to work each morning - negotiating the daily hazards of speeding tuk tuks, fierce geese, falling mangos and a decidedly rickety rope bridge - it’s hard to believe that most of the time I do forget that I am in Guatemala. I have only been living in the quiet town of San Agustín, Acasaguastlán for five months, but already it feels like my second home.
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Written by Derek Bech (L. 1943-46)
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Friday, 18 November 2005 |
 BBC 2's "Timewatch" features Derek's wartime experiences as part of it's show "Children of the Doomed Voyage" (Friday 18th November 2005). Here, Derek tells his story:
Many of you will know that during the last war my mother and two sisters, Barbara and Sonia, and myself were being evacuated to Canada to escape the threatened invasion of this country by Nazi Germany. We were travelling on the ship called the City of Benares which was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-Boat in mid-Atlantic - 600 miles from land.
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