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😲 Did it ☔️ for the Princess Royal Day Parade? Yep.

Today is Liberation Day in the Falklands.
It's a national day for the islands which marks the end of occupation by Argentina in 1982.
Here is everything you need to know about the British Overseas Territory 🌎👇

Say hello to Capt John Rose, Lt Col Catherine Jardine and Maj Colin Northridge. They’ve been working with the troops at Blandford Camp getting ready for tomorrow’s showstopper on Corps Day, the Princess Royal Day Parade.
We’ll hear from them at 6 / 7 / 8.45am (Friday) on BFBS Blandford.

Can't wait to see THIS at The Forum Ssvc Cinema - Blandford Camp with Forces Cinemas!

Capt Gopal Saru and Sgt Ridesh Mukhiya are in with news on Blandford Camp’s tasty charity event coming up next week.
Listen up at 6 / 7 / 8.45am (Wednesday) for how you get a ticket to raise funds for the RSBF and the The Gurkha Welfare Trust.

Clearly, come and see me first for tea and cake :-)

Well hello! I thought you might like defence news top up today :-)

Follow our timeline as we update dispatches, hour-by-hour, on the key decisive moments of D-Day - as the events of Operation Overlord would have unfolded on the day, June 6th, 1944...

🇬🇧 Drones captured the moment 250 D-Day veterans set sail from Dover.
Read more here and be prepared to admire them even more: http://bit.ly/2Wky8N8

An outstanding day from a part of Dorset that played such a significant role throughout the war.

Sara Stringer and Carol Tilley from the The Whitecliff Group Practice popped in with news on upcoming events for UK Cycle Week and we looked forward to the Tarrant Rushton referb project.

The MV Boudicca stopped off at Poole Harbour yesterday. Hear the story of one of the Veterans on-board, Ernest Slarks after 9am on BFBS Blandford.

❤️ | You don't need us to tell you that this Thursday marks the 75th anniversary of D-Day, but did you know that more than half of us wish we’d asked our grandparents more about the war before they died? 😢
For this very reason, we invited a group of kids to speak to veteran and absolute legend, William, who was in Normandy on 6th June 1944.
Find ALL of our D-Day stories here 👉 http://bit.ly/2EKMc7E

Winners! If you've bought a ticket from Steph - you could be a winner. Listen again and find out why she's jumping out of a plane at the end of July. Scotty's Little Soldiers

The amazing Eleana Lewis is here with news on this Saturday's first Repair Cafe at the Blandford Royal British Legion.
If it's broken and you can carry it - take it along as Eleana says...

Great story from the Daily Echo this morning (Wednesday)
AN aircraft from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight is set to fly in tribute over a former Dorset airfield on Sunday, 2 June, 2019 – at the start of a poignant commemoration marking the 75th anniversary of Tarrant Rushton’s vital role in the D-Day invasion of France.
The special two-hour gathering featuring the historic Dakota, will also see Bob Seymour from Hampshire – whose late father was a young navigator on the ...
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It's a D4 kinda day today for tea at BFBS Blandford.
Otherwise it's just a mug of hatred, right?
I've got the kettle on - how are you having yours?

The evacuations of Allied soldiers started on this day in 1940.
A few days later, on 4 June, Winston Churchill delivered this speech to the House of Commons.
🇬🇧 Read more here: http://bit.ly/2VLIY9K 🇬🇧