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Although the Navy's demand for Blue Liners has plunged in recent years - in some instances dramatically - gasps of anguish.could well go up at any suggestion that "cut price"" smokes should vanish entirely into thin air.
1 for the future, however, might be a reduction in tar content, which variesOnetrssib'l't wi the to'%cco type, Oftern c(nmplitints are now overseas travel also provides the by a massive two-thirds over the v(niced by non-sm(nkers about chance of proprietary brand "duty previous three years. Recorded, those who indulge in the habit in frees." too, were other big reductions, the c(nnfined spaces of ships and As attitudes to smoking and including: Tipped cigarettes down Band in parts of shore establishments official po~icy on it come into focus by 33 per cent. over the period: too. Yet the Blue Liner remains once again. it was stated in a 1 pc tobacco down 40 percent. for a
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artMay of existence for Commons whiten repI in Ma b rid lies a the Navy Nfinister ~]Mr ~~c thereby, wn'd' Prov ii i n d Uity-free problem. 'Pec dl: In addition to Blue Liners. tobacco is a long-,.tan5ing element in naval conditions of service." He also said: II-Re possibility that it himve an effect on " health inmight te Royal Navy is being taken into account as %~C review 'icy 0 ards smoking." POIn to another question there were four in all - Mr. S ed said 131 million rree duty, Iree cigarettes were provided to the Navy in 1979. Last autumn, Navy News rep.orted that the derriand for plain-type Blue Liners h.,id fallen v.,lu d
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A Sea Harrier landed on H.M,S, Invincible for the first time on May 22 as the new carrier conducted acceptance trials of her aviation facilities. The aircraft, of 800 Na,,,ai Air Squadron, Yeovilton. and piloted by I-icut.-Cdr. Robin Kent, left the ship by vertical take-off. The Invincible's ski ramp will not be used until first-ot-class trials in the itutumn. The Invincible had left the sunshine of Portsmouth three da~.s earlier - looking for bad %k.cath6r She w;is chasin natural winds i)i around Force so that her iii.
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stalled wind direction system an(l measuring device could he calibrated. " The Invincible, already a big favourite at Bar-row - in - I-urness, where she was built, and in P(nrismouth, her home port, now has i link with the North-East. She h.is been adopted by the City. of Durhitm. Inside Invincible - Pares 24 and 25; Inside the Sea Harner and 800 Squadron "re-born" - Page 37.
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tins and 30 per cent. for 2oz.; aond cigarette tobacco down 17 per cent.
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Before About 200 members of the Royal Navy and in the taking Mountbaften part Memorial Trust gala show at the Theatre WRNS from Naval Home Command and Naval Royal, Air Command took part in the event and were Drury Lane, the Three Degrees made a beautiful on stage for the finale, which included Evening party when they visited H,M.S. Belfast In boardiny the harries. Among those there to greet Hymn and Sunset, Taking part too was the R,M, them was LREG Brian Hodgson. of the School of Music, Deal, The naval contingent received its preparation Guests who attended the royal gala, held in H.M,S. Excellent. 6, included Princess Alexand-ra, Picture: PO(Phot) Jiick DewF'
Centre delay saddens fa 'M 1 #e 0
Another move in the seven-year saga to provide a community centre for the large naval population at Eastney came when a petition was prese.nted containing the signatures of nearly 400 quarters resident there. Recognizing the need for a centre in this area of Portsmouth, the Navy has strongly fr,u,nd.r.,4 backed series of lans hut en f,ur nil hu
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Eighteen months ago the R.N. and R.M. families there were told that the situation looked "decidedly promising." Since then, no building work has started.
The petition, handed in to the Commodore, H.M.S. Nel.son, and passed on to the staff of beintNAVI-10ME, read: "We, CIN the undersigned residents of the married quarters estate, Eastney are concerned with the sad lack of progress. in the provision of the community centre promised to us in the Navy News of January, 1979, and various news letters we have received.*' In that edition of Navy News we
reported that it was hoped a centre would be established in 1979 in an old R.M. weapons training school (known as Radex House). Part of the current is that the w c was planni'ng Coastguard' Prhoblhem to convert a section of the building into a new stati-on, is now appa rently facing cash problems. The Eastney, project, dating from 1973, and now, it seems, hanging in the balance, has a history which reads like this: First proposals failed because 1he Eastney quarters were fewer than four miles from a city. Later, when the rules. were changed, Plymouth was given priority-for the limited cash available. (Continued in Back Page)