Navy frigate was scrambled to shadow a Russian warship as it moved through the North Sea close to British waters yesterday the incident has only served to heighten tensions with Russia just days after foreign secretary Boris Johnson clashed with his counterpart in Moscow the defense secretary Gavin Williamson said person would not be intimidated or tolerate any form of aggression former Royal Navy officer Rear Admiral Chris Parry thinks it's a test this is just the Russians saying look we're entitled to be here we've got a shiny new fur get we want to show you don't you we want to test you on look Christmas Day just say that you're going to react to Syrian armed forces say a military jet has been downed by insurgents in the north of the country sources told state Syrian state t.v. That the pilot was killed when the aircraft came down in Hama a British woman has been told chills spend 3 years in an interruption jail after being caught with prescription painkillers which are banned there 33 year old Laura Plummer from Hole has always insisted the tramadol tablets were for her boyfriend's bad back Laura's sister says she's severely sleep deprived and anxious Jane Sinclair says the authorities of being unfair in Egypt the once and it was tall reserved for good in the right way about saying because it's just ridiculous is absolutely ridiculous how are you today that if it's not even on the website website a police officer and a woman have died following a crash in Sheffield last night it happened on the a 57 when a Marks police car collided with another vehicle while responding to an emergency call the universities minister Joe Johnson has raised the prospect that academic institutions could be fined by a new regulator if they fail to protect free speech some universities and student groups have banned speakers who advocate controversial points of view Mr Johnson speaking in Birmingham and is expected to argue that students need to be challenging but Dr Pam Rowe a senior lecturer in sociology at. Aston University in the city questions the wisdom of the government's approach at the time same time that we're talking about online apiece and the need to contain levels of sexism and racism around you know society more generally again to then turn around say to universities how if you've got to encourage this type of speech on campus. I worry about what actually is going on here and it suggests to me that the university's minister's actually got another agenda hurricanes broken a Premier League goal scoring record which had stood for 22 years the England striker. The 2nd game. For more than the. Sherif. The thing about. To win the game 1st of all was but I want to go back to. That record with a great vision and it's. The. Only journalist. Who's. Done it will go down when I'm high and don't get angry they believe me. I can love you just like that I can leave you just as fast but you don't. Do you don't. Get. Shoes. You can't. Feel bad to fix. Our feet Oh you are yours so. 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Well you know it's real you know what I actually love these days either side of persons as well because all the left and the nuts yeah yeah they all called me and actually have time for me and actually for about a week you just place you can play around increases in a lot of stuff down the back of the side. So he should get all men's obvious right now and your belly button is all the time Santelli more than friends is force ready at the f.b.i. . Because every state made history on the 15th of May this year when the team made it to the summit of Mount Everest it was the 1st time a serving soldier made it to the top of the highest mountain in spite of 2 major and you talk about the teams and how they were all feeling about that or deal with . A minor issue one of the soldiers got minor snow blindness to 6500 meters and we we have to fly down to Katmandu to be seen by specialists but it was all really sort of Monaco everyone else got mine a respirator infections and coughs and colds but everyone else absolutely point all things considered That's incredible isn't it what was it like standing on the top of the summit to be on the summit I mean to make sure that the team did and when you speak to the team the 1st guys to. Break the passage to the top of the summit the 1st time this year you know they were it was incredibly emotional what they did was a phenomenal achievement you know there had been about 3 weeks of lots of delays in getting the. Ropes fixed up to the top of the mountain and we had a meeting with the show. And we decided that we would do it ourselves and we put 3 good because along with 6 and they broke to the top of the summit from the south side for the 1st time this year I mean beating world leading mountaineers to the top it was it was it wasn't just a great achievement getting the 1st to the top but it was a great achievement getting the 1st you know mountaineering on the mountain this year it was fantastic stories it's a countries that mountain what does this mean to the guy because he's a huge amount I mean you're making a really good point and you know we had cars and Sherpas the Nepalese working together climbing the mountain when Long young lance corporal Sherman to our g.r. Came down the summits came down with Sergeant from the role 'd of just expression and they just put their arms around me and cries in cried and cried I mean it meant it meant an enormous amount to them many men enormous amounts of the team you know I can tell you you know we've we've made history by putting the 1st 2 on the summit but we've also made mountaineering history by having a go and all that police team leading the mountain for the 1st time so it was you know it's hugely rewarding to go there with some very sad news while you're out there that a famous climber died on the mountain and your team helped out what happened absolutely one of our rotations on a climatized ation we we pushed up to come 3 about 7200 meters we were aware of the state who's a phenomenal mountaineer was climbing in the area of the. Sea which is to the left of the Everest is perched between sort of 2 highest mountains in the world looked in the sea and he was probably will not see how we could see what was what we thought we know there was a body lying on the glacier and that was that was in fact that you know it would have been the wrong thing to walk by we managed to recover recover the body and only cause it to. Helicopter landing site which took about 2 hours of moving across a crew places it's quite dangerous and then we called the helical so we probably famous now put a plan in history it cost you about the team the team. All together on their 1st of course it was a huge $8.00 magnitude quake and then you've got this different circumstance to deal with emotional How did the team handle all of the things that we said at the time we. Don't have a choice because we kind of got to deal with it and you just go into a process you know you could be and you could be on an operational tool you just go into this process of getting the job done in the same what happened in the 25th. It was it was good in many regards. Found out what we believe and that we were able to help. a dolly and cool me. Down veteran Shawn Johnson struggled with depression after leaving the Army but he credits. And the the his incredible recovery Sean's blossoming acting career included lead roles in Hamlet's Richard the 3rd and 12th Night earlier this year he'll say starred in a short film that was shown at the London wellbeing and creativity week his show him talking about his struggles with p.t.s.d. I came from a military family father went to schools all around the world Brothers was a fantastic life I love being about out about going to schools in Malta Cyprus Germany so when Dad came back with the Queen's Lancaster regiment I was staying in Blackburn that was for one thing. So I joined the military I joined the Royal Artillery and I intended to do 22 years and have it so I had an injury and that that's what that's when I came out 12 years that this will be a point can you just tell us a little bit about your time in Belfast Yeah I was I did 2 tours of Northern Alliance who form of tours I was based at the. One time I spent some time with the green jackets in West Belfast and my 2nd school was in encounter Tyrone right across the about that bar a part province if you will moving back and forth very very busy busy tools always something going on and lads died you know it was it was a hard thing to adjust to when you see things in Northern Ireland you know and a lot of things were going on you've got to get on with it 1st and foremost I've got time to meditate on it it's when you get back from Northern Ireland you know and this is from a c.v. Now trying to drink my problem why I'll sit in a pub in Hammersmith and just like that for no reason 3 o'clock in the author now with some friends started crying and I had this image of a woman you know who we turned upon seeing there's been a murder in the galleries have. A good fella and she was screaming cause I was the 1st soldier on the ground and that was biting back and suddenly I had this feeling and empathy what could have done to stop the why won't be there a little bit earlier what could be of my fault now I was a soldier now and a veteran trying to adjust to all this stuff and mind frag as we call them. That started to take me down now little bits of information what might not matter to some suddenly became a big problem for me you know so that's when a really really really when love how loads you get how terrible that letter if we're going to put it on the table you know so bad I just lost all faith in who I was the person I sat in the car after a lot of time of thinking and and I I put a hose pipe in the back of a car and I braced for my last if you will I really want to get out it was by the grace of God I was found unconscious I was put in the hospital and this is this is like a happy go lucky cage like most of our lives wanting out you know so I'm in the car I mean I'm now putting a hospital for 10 weeks I lived my way out of the hospital because I was determined to finish this task off took a massive overdose wanted out and then you know it's when my life changed or realized this is a purpose in life for me just tell us about your recovery. This is when I start to make the the big the big get out of the big journey of life and find out what's my vocation and I found by tapping into acting 1st of almost having treatment I did have to be myself I could be something through art and completely escape any mind fry and then I started working for the veterans in the same sort of John or if you will and it was all the same awful this is amazing the blokes are showing this amazing art through through the not sane and escapin rich tell us about this short film you're involved in well this is fantastic and this is why I'm really excited about what's going forward after going back to to that time when it was darkness you know doing this now is all fun and doing this film is going to demonstrate you know we're going to talk again roll like we did this morning how life can be and how love it can be but with the support anybody today out there now who's really really struggling with depression and thinking There's absolutely no way out well I probably stars he or she with the right gods in support we'll get into the light and over the line so for me you know doing that. 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Today and probably for the rest of the month you know what it's like time he says and being announced on all 3 loving them he always gets a big drawing. You know and it's all b.s. Until the mouth plays a pick so in a yeah yeah. Right force right yes it's the best guess it's hatching it's also the best all the music that's the weekend and if it coming . The team of would enjoy it and sit veterans and service personnel sets off last seen on Race Across America their race consisted all the 3000 mile race from the West Coast to the east coast of the us the equivalent of Brighton to Edinburgh every day for 7 days on the team was triple amputee. He came in to chat to us about his accident in Afghanistan and why he was taking part in the rice across America I mean exploit engineer in one partially children born engineers for pretty much one so I Korea did 3 tours of O'Hare ics and then I would use repression to try to regiments take courage so I would have been lost for never saw the feds want to pound unfortunately needs a few 1010 I went out with a bang as I said Go wait when he came into the us you took your cuts off and then you took your hand off which I think is a 1st we would never that in the studio if the bad things happen but life goes on it's all about just didn't just get on with life really if not tonight becoming is the case we talk a little bit about the day that kind of changed your life can you tell us a little bit about what you remember about that day yes of course I remember for much the how it was New Year's Day where on a sort of dawn clearance patrol of the compound. It was an orange gauze when you go into just before me as well we were involved in clearing the last to get back to Boston helicopter landing so yeah it's a sort helicopter landed so and yeah they got him back to Boston and then Paul for now. 100 metres from where he go enjoy student day I was. Sort of staying to look for the oil they you know. They seem to happen they say is a call to find and yeah one thing that's another and I ended up in a ditch on the side of a right the poison would say pretty much save my life I know they oughtn't to mention names and yeah it's sort of far from every one of me saying so from then you say you were back in hospital in Birmingham within 24 hours and then over the course of some years I'm sure you learnt how to walk again and that sort of thing I'm Remember the whole instance to be honest for being injured sick always put 2 in a cage on spin put on the back of a helicopter shot an Abbott off the back don't have it in my face so that's the mum coming in. Saying came in within half an hour of pain injured I was back in contrast to move in that golden hour yeah I call it the cold now so if you if you've been injured or wounded it's always you're back in Boston within an hour you've got 90 percent chance of survival because. What the guys on the in the Guards in Boston and the surgeons etc do is just it's unbelievable but yeah it gets to 3 weeks that she made to comprehend what happened yeah I mean my family and my partner they also were trying have to tell me every day what happened I mean one put them in with that said to me that my hand up in. My brain still trying to send messages to and I thought you law and you could still fail it and it wasn't just the amount of drugs a pump it's the system you just don't know where you are what's going on Chris a matter of fact it's absolutely amazing what you can see the funny side and everything. And this isn't the 1st cycling challenge is it no it's not I go into cycling 20 off to look at in that memory loss and you put that white I mean. It was watching health care saying that in 2012 it's all over and injured go I said it was great I did it because I wanted to get past the chariot and help make the raise the money expended on the part for me so it felt good doing that how important it is. The camaraderie with all of this I mean obviously you know to speak and Bayer around people who've experienced what you've experienced you get a lot from that yeah there's a team of 8 of us that do it says for him vox and for price I think between us his forte noms and 6 legs. Yeah it's going to be it's going to be if you speak to anyone who's been discharged the military or even if just left the military if they're on a coat it's it's the camaraderie you Mrs working in a section up to you not company as it is working to give a speech to achieve a goal and that's what the Ramasamy is it's not about how quickly we do it in yes I want to smash this record but it's all about being run in a small group of like ours again the team that did in 2012 was for Hamas and for Ross and I did it in 7 days 7 hours and 39 minutes and I was sort of not have a call heroes but it was going to have been trying for it but what I mean this time is pretty much you've got the parcel out there now think you've got Joe towns and he's a Paralympian going to now is just to try and absolutely smashed his record and get across America on the 7th I. Will if I'm not. No. Raise. Any obstacle. To find a school bus trip to. The . Report coming up soon footballing legend society Matthews's some Stanley Matthews Jr came into being yes he spoke to us about a new documentary called Matthews which chronicles his dad's rise to stardom and that's coming up in a 10 minutes time. Now in September Richard I went along to the button launch at the Special Forces club in a secret house behind Harrods we were there to support a best selling author Damian Lewis who's been on the show a few times his new book is called S.A.'s case the trial is the incredible true story Damian uncovered about an ultra secret fighting unit that pays does not see storm 3 hits to seize the German held port city of to book in Libya during World War 2 He's Damien talking about how he got into I say I spent 20 years as a as a war pool to kind of reporting from all the usual nasty places you can imagine so cross Africa Middle East South America and then I had to have a year off because I go very badly injured and during that year was approached by a publisher and also to write a book an international bestseller on us that was reason to go to the rest is history should I feel bad saying that you turn them out because it sounds like the quality is never the cause he's fantastic and you uncover incredible stories just give us to fly out the story in this new book When the journey to the story was was was fantastic often after university I did an expedition across the horror drove there was a lot yes support wrote your graphics society supported expedition and in the process of that we came across well Jeffrey from the 2nd World War. Soloing in the middle of our test you know Jeep tsunami and all that kind of stuff and it got me fascinated in the theater of war and then I researched it my find at the longest ever overland special forces mission was a mission in 1902 to rate the field in Libya and it was like 1000 a 100 miles for the desert just to get the hunger the designs you know just to get there and then the attack researching writing that story and then in the process of doing that the files for the National Archives and I suddenly realized that that mission was Paul's. Missions that night in which they go through the enemy lines using this deception force he was set up deliberately to pose as German soldiers from bluff their way through the enemy lines and that is incredible you found out while you do your say in this story basically hadn't been told and so you want to develop. When you when you do things that they see it as I think why is no one done this before well with this story in particular I was absolutely Words fail me and they fell be and they deny and actually in the process of getting of researching we got to follow print that is actually officially closed until 2064 so these World War 2 files that usually closed under a 45 year old a 70 year old or 100 year rule this one was closed under a well more than 100 year old actually And so we all and in that file with that was all this information about this this this unit and what was tossed today can I just say we need to explain. The long range yes and no say just tell us about the sig will you Ok so with the long range desecrate who were the guys who basically did the S.E.'s through the desert on their rights Ok in the sig the special interrogation group that was the cover name for this unit set up to train these German soldiers they actually looked and acted the marched and sang like German soldiers to speak. Any German to wear German uniforms to use German weaponry and to drive German vehicles through the lines and the sick was a cover name they were there to take allied special forces through the lines but there's some really strong characters in there as well that would just give us a glimpse of the main protagonists. First this Henry said Buck So he said he was a member of the assassin's fencing club he's captured in early 1902 he escapes from German captivity but by taking a dead German officers uniform dressing in that stealing a truck and he bluffs his way across hundreds of kilometers of any territory and gets back to British law and it's his experience doing that makes him think if we can get out we can pull off a white back in again with a much larger force using cinema and so he's the key. Sets up the saying and then he joins forces with a guy cooled that on a kill Hazelton Hazelton was known as the Lawrence of will too this was a guy he was brought up in Egypt his family had been there for generations his mother was attorney and he was British so he had sort of thought good looks he could pass as an Arab and he speciality was going behind the lines only dressed in Arab ropes posing as a local to gather intelligence on German Italian positions that's just to them for . The. Kids to use 16 fell fast but. No competition to 64 seconds and safety 8 at a total impact cripples. North to 60. No competitions amazing a conditioning and some 50 feet is no way of bags no cripples So it's up to you if you're a cyclist you know how formidable You can be on the grounds of safety something you Fix. It. Push. Me a little. I wish it. And forgettable now we got Sally Matthews Jr come out very very soon now it's 26th of December is it too soon to mention New Year's resolutions. Basically I'm doing the usual get in shape. You know make it realistic that's the well I'm going to put it out there maybe I'm chomping at the bit head to say you know I don't know if I want to do a triathlon. Exactly and therefore if I've got some kind of target. I feel like I'm going to get in shape I'm going to eat better and those are 3 things I'm not very good at Amora is cycling. But the swimming and the running I mean the it's just filling with dread if 2018 could become the year of the triathlon for me that. Need to be a reasonable swim away. In a way in a like yeah normally do you think do you think as far as resolutions go that's a bit tough I think it would be why don't we just. To the canteen. Zones endless you know exactly what I need to do their. Job. a little when the he was a star become a step that me baby there's a lot of people living in. Me So. It was just. Me. Forces Radio b. Of b.s. . She gave the best against the best of the music limb pain and stripped that down . To Stanley Matthews was one of the greatest players to play the beautiful game his son Stanley Matthews Jr came in to speak to us a few months ago to talk about his dad and to promote a new documentary called Matthews which chronicles his dad's rise to global stardom used to play for his school team and I guess from that that the scouts in that Stoke realized they had a talent and then he signed on as an office boy I think when he was about 14 or 15 when when he was 16 he signed a contract with them it must mean quantify go for the documentary because there's not that much for teachers around it's that you know I mean unfortunately as you say this was in the you know late thirty's and forty's and fifty's not much television was around in those days so yeah we've got a lot of photo clips which we reenacted a few things but yeah he was he was cool and old fashioned when you know he's on the right right wing and his his job in those days as well Windows was to clear the ball and try and beat his opponent and supply a pool to just teammates he had a signature move as well and he had one signature move was used to teach us about that it's called the Matthews move and kids all over the place you know they know the Matthews move but they don't necessarily know who Mathews is you know it was a feint to his left and then he pushes the ball with these right foot on the outside and goes to the right and it's and again you'll see it in the film it's amazing that. The opponent says opponent 99 percent of the time knows where it's going but still can't get out so I mean it's a movie every single song they just can't get Yeah yeah you must've had to pull right is that so much footage was there to make it sound we did have a lot of footage and we could have added on another 3 or 4 as easily but you know you have to decide what what you want to put on. Is it sad I've seen it probably at least 50 times and I cry every time. When I cry when the when he wins the f.a. Cup because that was in 1953 and going back a little bit on that when when my father's father was dying he said to my father I want you to do 2 things I want to take care of your mother and I want you to win an f.a. Cup winners' medal so obviously to take care of his mother and you know the f.a. Cup was a big thing got to the final 2 years lost both times and now he's $36.00 and now it's $953.00 and everybody said it's you know he's passed his prime which of course he wasn't played until he was 50 but and then they were down 3 won in the final to Bolton Wanderers with 1015 minutes to play turn it around and they ended up winning 43. About his career because he gave up football for about 6 years or something of the 6 years he was in the already as he was stationed stationed in Blackpool and he you know he went around the country training the troops and then playing some exhibition games there are still football matches going on during the war years but they were very informal. Exhibition type games for morale for the troops and for the people could come and watch and what was it like growing up say you're a kid and your dad is just ridiculously famous What was that like growing up it was never going to anywhere without being recognized I mean if you tried to take a walk anywhere you'd have people. Coming up and you know one in order grass which you would happy to do the other thing is always interesting growing up used when we used to go to the movies as a as a family we used to get to the movie theater and go in the manager's office and wait until the movie had started and then 10 minutes after the movie started to go and sit sit in that in the theater and then 10 minutes before the movie and it we. Never saw the beginning of. The. Best Christmas present. So. I just. Kind of smelly some things I. Think I'm so excited about they're going to make. Basically my scar that makes me think that can't be right yeah you watch them over the next couple of months they see the. Forces already have the f.p.s. It's the best guess is hatching again. She.