THE former British prime minister Baroness Thatcher yesterday paid tribute to the courage of those who took part in the Falklands campaign.
"We remember and salute all those who fought there and each and every one of those who died that freedom might live in the Falkland Islands," she told veterans and their families at a ceremony to mark the 15th anniversary of the end of the conflict.
Lady Thatcher (right) was applauded as she arrived for the ceremony and later took her place on the dais at Gosport, Hampshire, for a march past by veterans of the campaign in the South Atlantic.
Comic legend Norman Wisdom's half century in the laughter business was marked yesterday with a special plaque at Pinewood studios, where he made a dozen of his most successful films.
British Comedy Society director Morris Bright, who organised the ceremony at the studios in Buckinghamshire, said: "On Father's Day it is very appropriate that the father of British comedy should receive this tribute."
A host of stars was at the ceremony to unveil a plaque honouring the comic, aged 82. They included Donald Sinden, who received a knighthood in last week's Queen's Birthday Honours, veteran actress Thora Hird, and the Albanian ambassador to Britain, Pavli Quesku - Wisdom is still the biggest film star in Albania.
An ethnic newspaper is urging Asian Australians to join up in order to swamp populist politician Pauline Hanson's new party, One Nation.
"Join with us in becoming members of this repulsive party so we can give it a proper funeral and send Mrs Hanson back to the fish and chip shop where she belongs," Melbourne's Herald Sun newspaper quoted the Chinese Weekly as saying yesterday.
Hanson, a former fish and chip shop proprietor, has attracted about 10 per cent voter support with her criticism of multiculturalism, Aborginal welfare, and immigration.