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image captionView of the Garrison Hill battlefield with the British and Japanese positions shown. Garrison Hill was the key to the British defences at Kohima.
Captain Robin Rowland was 22 when his regiment was deployed to the north-eastern Indian town of Kohima. It was May 1944, and a small group of British-Indian soldiers was under assault by an entire division of Japanese forces.
Capt Rowland, now 99, vividly remembers approaching the town, following a trail of devastation to the front line. We saw abandoned trenches and destroyed villages, and as we moved forward the smell of death was everywhere, he said.
Five men who were part of huge illegal rave appear in court
Around 700 people attended the Halloween party in a disused warehouse
07:40, 10 FEB 2021
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Five men who partied at a huge illegal rave have been appeared in court and been sentenced for their “selfish” behaviour.
Bristol Live reported that the five defendants all received fines at Bristol Magistrates’ Court after admitting offences in and around a disused warehouse in Beeches Industrial Estate in Yate.
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Five men who partied at an illegal Yate rave have been sentenced for their “selfish” behaviour.
George Parsons, George Packham, Ashley Waker, Oliver Eavis and Josh Samson were among hundreds who gathered for a party lasting almost 24 hours last Halloween (October 31).
The five defendants all received fines today (February 9) at Bristol Magistrates’ Court after admitting offences in and around a disused warehouse in Beeches Industrial Estate.
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An Easton caravan dweller danced outside court after being fined over an illegal rave.
George Parsons, 18, was among hundreds who gathered for a party lasting almost 24 hours last Hallowe en (October 31) at a disused warehouse in Beeches Industrial Estate, Yate.
As he left court, he assumed various poses and began to dance, before launching a defence of the rave.
Parsons said: âRaves arenât anti-lockdown, theyâre anti-capitalism. Fear is going to control. People are affected by the modern way of life whether thereâs raves on or not.â