Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2018
Under the headline Saddam On The Run, we told how the Iraqi despot had ordered his troops to withdraw from Kuwait just 45 hours after the Allies launched their “devastating blitzkrieg” into Iraq and Kuwait.
Large numbers of Iraqi tanks, trucks and equipment was seen leaving Kuwait, while Saddam’s Republican Guard fled towards Basra, breaking off a battle with Britain’s Desert Rats.
83 YEARS AGO (1935)
Met Office physicist Robert Watson-watt carried out the first demonstration of radar, where signals from a BBC shortwave transmitter were bounced off an aircraft. A later version helped the RAF win the Battle of Britain in 1940.
23 YEARS AGO (1995)
Barings, Britain’s oldest investment bank, collapsed after Nick Leeson lost £827million in fraudulent, unauthorised trading. While in prison in 1996, he wrote his autobiography, Rogue Trader. Sandie Shaw is 71. She was the first Brit to win Eurovision. Emmerdale star Charley Webb turns 30. She is the sister of I’m a Celeb star Jamie Lomas. Turkish President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan is 64. And many happy returns to Mirror reader
Asia Laking, of Worksop, Notts, who is 21 today. 2.15pm Flight carrying the Team GB athletes home from the Winter Olympics due to land at Heathrow.
4pm Network Rail boss Mark Carne to be grilled by MPS on the Public Accounts Committee at Westminster.
7pm Olympic rower Katherine Grainger addresses the Cambridge Union.
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