In the Media - December
 |
Festive troops fun on run NOTHING helps build up the appetite for Christmas dinner like a brisk jog. Members of the first battalion the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (1 Lancs) were among the 500 members of the armed forces who took part in the charity "turkey trot" – a five- kilometre fun run around the army's main operating base in Basra. |
|
|
Homes for Heroes success TROOPS are to be offered cut-price homes – in a victory for The Sun’s Help For Heroes campaign. Ministers will unveil new measures today to give a fairer deal to servicemen and women planning their return to civvy street. Link: www.thesun.co.uk |
|
 |
Our Boys ripped off by the MoD SCROOGE MoD chiefs are making a fortune by charging forces’ charities for holding fundraising events on military land. In one of the worst examples, the Army Benevolent Fund was landed with a £7,000 bill for using Sandhurst for a gala — while top actress Dame Judi Dench and singer Myleene Klass gave up their time for free. Link: www.thesun.co.uk |
|
 |
Festive fancy dress run sees soldiers do their bit for wonded colleagues SOLDIERS from Merseyside were among 500 servicemen and women in Basra, Iraq, who took part in a traditional military “Turkey Trot” – a 5km fun run around the base, in support of Britain’s Help for Heroes campaign. |
|
|
Goodwill to all mankini THREE squaddies sporting Borat-style mankinis joined a Sun-sponsored charity run in Basra yesterday. More than 500 of Our Boys and Girls raised more than £20,000 for the Help For Heroes campaign. Link: www.thesun.co.uk |
|
|
Queen pays tribute to troops THE Queen yesterday used her Christmas speech to pay tribute to the British heroes of Iraq and Afghanistan. Link: www.thesun.co.uk |
|
 |
Support Our Squaddies By Getting A Wristband Sergeant Major Andy Stockton who has been discharged from the Royal Artillery after losing an arm in Afghanistan, asked the nation to say thanks if they see a squaddie down the pub. Andy has helped launch our Help For Heroes campaign and can be seen on Channel 4 on Christmas Day at 8pm. Link: www.product-reviews.net |
|
|
Gordon Brown's hollow seasonal greetings A former officer has set up Help for Heroes to raise money for a physiotherapy pool at the services' rehabilitation centre at Hedley Court. Is charity the way to fund medical facilities? These are emphatically not the failures of the military medical services themselves; they are failures of past leadership in the MoD, both civil and military. Above all, they are the Treasury's failures - Gordon Brown's failures - in the year-on-year scavenging for "peace dividends". Link: www.telegraph.co.uk |
|
 |
Don't bury me just yet, colonel Lieutenant Jim Berry was so badly injured in Afghanistan that his regiment planned his funeral, but a rehabilitation unit in need of your support gave him his life back. Link: www.timesonline.co.uk |
|
 |
Free phone time for Our Heroes As the forces’ Number One paper, we have teamed up with the military’s satellite phone firm Paradigm in the morale-boosting move. It is open to ALL 14,500 soldiers, sailors and airmen now overseas in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Balkans and Africa and will save them £129,000 - nearly £9 each. Link: www.thesun.co.uk |
|
|
Injured veteran rides with Stig A teenage soldier who was badly injured in Iraq was invited by the Top Gear team to drive a lap with the show's mystery driver The Stig. Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson is a patron of the charity Help for Heroes, which supports wounded servicemen and their families. Link: www.news.bbc.co.uk |
|
|
C4 message salutes heroes A WOUNDED soldier will urge the public to back troops returning from war zones in this year’s Channel 4 Alternative Christmas Message. Link: www.thesun.co.uk |
|
 |
Hunks from the Marine cor! HERE’S a group of raunchy Royal Marines showing they really are a phwoar-ce to be reckoned with! Link: www.thesun.co.uk |
|
|
Page 3 girls help our heroes THE SUN’S Page 3 Girls have been sent into action – to front up the best-ever Christmas party for our wounded war heroes. Link: www.thesun.co.uk |
|
|
Charity cash will not go to Maddy fund The Bull pub in Hemel Hempstead, which raised more than £1,500 towards the fund for missing toddler Madeleine McCann, has now decided to donate the money to Iraq soldiers instead. Pub landlord Ricky Hampton made the decision after the parents of the four-year-old, who went missing in Portugal six months ago, became suspects in the police investigation. The £1,570 total is now earmarked for Help For Heroes. Link: www.hemeltoday.co.uk |
|
|
Peavey aids forces in Iraq Five soldiers of the 158 Provost Company military police put on a concert in the Iraqi city of Basra with the help of Peavey Europe, which donated a Delta Blues 210 guitar amplifier, a Max bass amp, four PVi 100 microphones, and a number of guitar accessories such as leads and stands. Link: www.mi-pro.co.uk |
|
 |
Icy swim to aid troops A swimmer who has helped give thousands of children confidence in the water is turning his attention to helping soldiers injured in combat. Paul Smith, owner of the Brighton Swimming School, plans to swim around the Palace Pier in Brighton on Christmas day to raise money for the charity Help For Heroes. Link: www.theargus.co.uk |
|
 |
Sheps creates beer for war heroes Heroes from Britain’s armed forces gathered at the Shepherd Neame brewery last week to launch Help for Heroes Spitfire Ale – which will raise funds for the country’s injured service personnel.A CAMPAIGN to raise £5 million for wounded soldiers recovering at a medical centre in Surrey is appealing for a co-ordinator to organise fundraising events in the area. Link: www.thepublican.com |
|
|
Heroes' kids bittersweet treat The Sun, through our Help For Heroes campaign, and the Forces Children’s Trust, gave the kids their days to remember. Help For Heroes took a group of 30 kids and 20 parents to Kuusamo, near the Arctic circle in Finland. Link: www.thesun.co.uk |
|
 |
Wags' army leads charge for wounded heroes IT is a regular Ministry of Defence building, but it houses an unexpected army. Since September, when the Help for Heroes campaign was launched, an office block in Tidworth, Hampshire, has been home to a battalion of women every bit as dedicated as their husbands and boyfriends on the front line in Iraq and Afghanistan.The Sun, through our Help For Heroes campaign, and the Forces Children’s Trust, gave the kids their days to remember. Link: www.thetimesonline.co.uk |
|
 |
Medal joy for brave Stephen A PARALYSED Lion of Basra wept with pride yesterday as he was reunited with comrades and awarded a medal by the Duchess of Cornwall. Fighter ... Stephen in hospital And the plucky soldier showed his backing for The Sun’s Help For Heroes campaign by wearing a wristband. Link: www.thesun.co.uk |
|
|
Clarkson gets im Troop Gear THE Top Gear team have lined up some TOP CHEER for Our Boys – with a surprise visit to Afghanistan. And the petrolhead trio could even entertain troops by performing some of their trademark motor madness using military vehicles. An insider said: “Jeremy and the guys are hugely proud of Our Boys so they thought it would be a great idea to go over there and surprise them. Link: www.thesun.co.uk |
|
 |
Wills meets Army heroes PRINCE William has visited a centre for wounded troops linked with The Sun-backed Help for Heroes campaign. William, who will one day become head of the armed forces, completed the attachment to the Chief of the General Staff’s office in Whitehall today. Link: www.thesun.co.uk |
|
|
Rehabilitation centre so overcrowded that staff move out to live in hotel A residential clinic for injured service personnel evacuated from Iraq and Afghanistan is so full that 20 of the permanent staff are having to live in a local Travelodge hotel to provide more space. The Headley Court Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre, which provides prosthetic limbs for the most severely wounded soldiers, has become overwhelmed with patients. In recent months they have mostly been from Afghanistan because of the heavy fighting against the Taleban. Link: www.thetimesonline.co.uk |
|
|
Dear Deidre, how do we win? The England skipper has been an avid reader of Deidre’s column for years and was delighted to have a chat after she turned up to watch the final day’s play at the SSC ground. Vaughan got the royal treatment, too, with snapper Arthur Edwards on hand to take the pictures. The skipper also wore one of the Help for Heroes wristbands, which promotes the campaign to raise money for our wounded troops. Link: www.thesun.co.uk |
|
 |
Kent brewer helps forces charity A Help for Heroes Spitfire Ale is going on sale for six months, with all the brewery's profits going to the charity. Help for Heroes aims to raise £5m for a swimming pool and gym complex within the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre at Headley Court, Surrey. Link: news.bbc.co.uk |
|
|
Brewer backs wounded heroes fund Kent brewer Shepherd Neame has launched a limited edition charity version of its Spitfire ale. All brewing profits from the 24x250ml packs sold through wholesalers and Majestic, will be donated to the national armed forces charity, Help for Heroes. Link: www.offlicencenews.co.uk |
|
 |
Get gold star for heroes Petersfield residents are being invited to help decorate a Christmas remembrance tree to help injured ex-Servicemen. Anyone who would like to support the new charity Help for Heroes is being given a gold star decoration, on which they can write a Christmas message for a loved one, in return for a small donation. |
|
|
Chelsy wears the Sun band CARING Chelsy Davy has backed Our Boys by wearing one of The Sun’s Help For Heroes wristbands. Harry and brother William were among the first top names to agree to back our campaign — but with Chelsy we didn’t even need to ask. Link: www.thesun.co.uk |
|
 |
These maimed heroes never admit defeat Help for Heroes, a charity set up in September to support wounded soldiers, aims to raise £5m to build a swimming pool and new gym at Headley Court. Sunday Times readers have already been enormously generous, giving more than £200,000 of the £1.3m already raised. We hope you will continue to support the charity, which numbers among its patrons Jeremy and Francie Clarkson and the singer James Blunt, as part of our Christmas appeal. Link: www.thetimesonline.co.uk |
|
 |
Raising a glass for Our Boys HE heartbroken girlfriend of soldier Ben Ford is happy to see folk raise a toast to Our Boys — as each drink boosts the Help For Heroes fund Link: www.thesun.co.uk |
|
 |
Front line marathon man MENTION the idea of getting up at 6am on New Year's Day and most of us would run a mile. Sgt Major Allan Mossman will brave temperatures in the high '20s to run a marathon through the Iraqi desert to raise cash for fellow squaddies injuries in action. The former Montgomery High School pupil, serving with the First Battalion the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, will swap his combat fatigues for a tracksuit, all in aid of charity Help For Heroes. |
|
 |
York soldier prepares fro gruelling fundraising A YORK soldier is to undergo a 24-hour gruelling fitness challenge to raise money for fellow troops who have been wounded in battle. Staff Sergeant Iain Bareham, an Army physical training corps instructor, based at Queen Elizabeth Barracks, in Strensall, will run more than 40 miles, do at least 400 press-ups and 500 sit-ups, all in aid of the Help For Heroes charity, which supports wounded soldiers. Link: www.yorkpress.co.uk |
|
 |
The Help for Heroes heroes THE SUN has been backing our boys with our Help for Heroes campaign in a bid to raise much-needed cash to support wounded British servicemen and women. Link: www.thesun.co.uk |
|
 |
The Injured troops offered faceswap There has been widespread concern that British soldiers are not offered the best medical care in the NHS following the closure of army hospitals. Research by the Royal British Legion found that only 10% of war pensioners currently entitled to priority treatment for their service-related condition are actually getting it under the NHS. Weston added: “I was fortunate in that I was offered excellent care in a military hospital. That hospital no longer exists. I was able to stay in hospital for a month but there was no question of me bed-blocking.” The Sunday Times-backed Help for Heroes campaign, raising money for a new swimming pool and gymnasium at Headley Court, the armed forces rehabilitation centre in Surrey, has raised more than £1m. Link: www.timesonline.co.uk |
|
|
Clarkson's hero Help for Heroes, of which Jeremy and Francie have become patrons, was launched in The Sunday Times in September. It aims to raise £5m to build a swimming pool and gym complex at Headley Court. It has already raised £1.8m, including more than £100,000 from Sunday Times readers, and we hope you will continue to give to the charity as part of our Christmas Appeal. Link: www.timesonline.co.uk |
|
 |
Link: View November articles |
|
 |
Link: View October articles |
|
 |
Link: View September articles | |