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According to The Telegraph, the Ministry of Defence is planning next year to send Prince of hives to the Falkland Islands, where he will serve as a helicopter pilot Sea King. The fact that in 2012 - thirty years anniversary of the war over the Falkland Islands, which took place between Britain, which came out in the end the winner, and Argentina.

Get wife Kate with a prince would not allow - the period of his mission rather short. It is known that two years ago, rumors that the prince went to the Falklands, outraged by the Foreign Minister of Argentina - South American nation still considers the island its legitimate territory, although in 1982 inflicted a defeat.

Interestingly, the press reported that in mid-May, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge still go on their honeymoon. 10 days they spend in the Seychelles.

According to The Sun, more than 1,000 detainees by British troops in Afghanistan, Taliban members were released safely.

Corrupt and poorly managed courts Province Helmand kiss of death is actually less than one out of 20 detained Taliban, the newspaper notes. A source in the military gave The Sun the following comment: "The judicial system of Helmand is almost useless. This is due to a number of reasons - corruption, incompetence and lack of interest in all of those trials. It is bad and our morality, there is nothing more depressing , than to see the attackers, who with great difficulty managed to find and arrest, with no problems are again at liberty. "

In general, courts Helmand accused of only 3.5 per cent to justice by British forces and local police, the Taliban. Of the 1175 people detained in the past year, the penalty suffered only 82.

On Sunday, the head of the U.S. State Department Hillary Clinton arrived in London to discuss with the British side issues of cooperation on Afghanistan and Iran. This is her first solo visit to the United Kingdom as Secretary of State. Today, Hillary Clinton in Northern Ireland, where a number of meetings devoted to the development of the region.

Yesterday at a press conference, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the UK David Miliband said a special level of cooperation between countries. For its part, Hillary also stressed especially the friendly relations between Britain and the United States and a good personal relationship with Prime Minister Gordon Brown. At the same time rejected the idea of ??Hillary that cause the release of a Libyan terrorist Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi worsened diplomatic relations between the countries.

The issues of cooperation in Afghanistan, Barack Obama plans to introduce to the region another 10 thousand U.S. troops.

Clinton thanked British soldiers for bravery in Afghanistan, and intelligence agencies for intelligence, provided a picture of what happens to uranium enrichment plant in the Iranian city of Qom. She noted that the world is not going to wait forever for an answer to Iran's proposals for peace in the West regarding its nuclear program.

As reported by BBC News, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has promised to return to the Treasury 12 000 pounds, which he was compensated for by the budget. The fact is that having a huge impact the independent auditor Thomas Legg came to the conclusion that these costs are the Prime Minister should not have been covered by the budget.

12 000 was spent on cleaning Brown and service housing gardening. Previously, such compensation was perfectly legal, but after a recent scandal involving embezzlement of public funds parliamentarians, legislation was revised. Sam Brown urged MPs to cooperate with the auditor.

Hundreds of members have received official letters from the service led by Leggo, they were asked to return to the treasury of the spent on transportation and living expenses money.

However, many politicians were outraged by this request because they have to reimburse the funds "backdating."

Brown noted that already we are working on a new cost accounting system of compensation that will not allow politicians to abuse in this matter.

In the UK, began a new investigation into the terrorist act in 1988, which occurred in the skies over Lockerbie Scotland. The Telegraph writes about several new lines of investigation based on new evidence and analysis conducted by the testimony.

The investigation was started again in connection with a campaign launched by relatives of those killed during the attack and supported the publication of The Sunday Telegraph. Similar attack victims have demanded an independent investigation. Families of the victims wrote a letter to Gordon Brown.

Recall, before the only defendant in the case of the attack was an officer of the Libyan intelligence Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, in 2001 was sentenced to life imprisonment, but released in 2009 at home - because of for prostate cancer he could live for several months. October 21, he died in Libya.

Investigators believe that al-Megrahi could plan and commit a terrorist act alone.

As a result of explosion of the plane flying over Lockerbie, killing 270 people.

According to RIA Novosti on Sunday, 25 October, Foreign Minister of the UK David Miliband issued a denial about the fact that he announced his candidacy for the post of EU foreign minister.

Messages that Mr Miliband may claim for the post, appeared in the European press, although they were denied by the minister. It is interesting that while Mr Miliband said that "for the UK and Europe will be good" if the president of the European Union, former Prime Minister Tony Blair of the United Kingdom.

Blair also supported the candidacy of incumbent Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Writes Lenta.ru, referring to information of "Interfax", at a press conference after the talks the Foreign Minister of the UK David Miliband with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, Brit noted that the role of leadership on the issue of global nuclear disarmament must make Russia and the United States.

90 percent of the world's nuclear arsenals, according to Miliband, belong to Russia and the United States. However, should participate in the disarmament and other countries, British Minister, including the United Kingdom. Miliband said that Britain has already significantly reduced the number of their nuclear missiles.

It was also in talks about Middle East problems and fighting in Afghanistan. Were raised and it was killed in the British capital of Alexander Litvinenko, and Lavrov said that London is not transferred to the Russian side of all necessary materials on the case, while Mr Miliband said that Russia "was given a considerable amount of information."

In addition, Russia, as before, is not going to give Britain the British suspect in the murder of Litvinenko Andrei Lugovoi.