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Andrew Drummond

River Kwai

BBC BOYS BEHAVING BADLY IN BURMA FAIL TO BEAT THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH – BUT THEY TRIED

The BBC motoring programme ‘Top Gear’ – in reality a boys behaving badly with lots of expensive toys showcase – has come in for a drubbing from the British press for using the term ‘slope’ during the first of two specials filmed in Burma. As a man walks towards them on a wooden bridge of […]

KILLER COP GETS REMISSION FOR RIVER KWAI MURDERS

-HE WOULD HAVE GOT DEATH – BUT SOMCHAI WISETSINGH WAS AN ‘OUTSTANDING’ THAI POLICEMAN- AND NOW HE’S COUNTING THE DAYS. Police Sergeant Somchai Wisetsingh whose death sentence for the murders of backpackers Vanessa Arscott and Adam Lloyd in Kanchanaburi was commuted to 50 years nine years ago has had his sentence reduced by 32 years. […]