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ABC News
26-06-2025
- Politics
- ABC News
Inside the six-day siege of the Iranian Embassy in London
On the morning of 30 April, 1980, a group of armed men invaded the Iranian Embassy in London. They took 26 people hostage, including staff, visitors and a police officer and issued demands in the name of a cause almost no one had ever heard of. The 'Group of the Martyr', a collection of Iranian Arabs, wanted independence for their province of Iran, but their demands were impossible for the British Government to meet, and so the then-little known Special Air Service (SAS) were told to plan an invasion of the building to rescue the hostages. The six-day siege was eventually broken by the SAS, and their storming of the embassy galvanised the world as people watched it all unfold on live television. Historian and author Ben McIntyre takes a deeper look at this dramatic siege and rescue operation, uncovering the real, powerful story of ordinary people responding as best they could to lethal jeopardy. Further information The Siege is published by Penguin Random House. This episode was recorded live at the 2025 Sydney Writers' Festival. Find out more about the Conversations Live National Tour on the ABC website.
Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Young Swindon athletics club breaks three records
A young athletics club has broken three club records. The achievements by Swindon Harriers came during the UK Athletics Youth Development League, Premier South & West Division match at Gloucester and the Brewer Memorial Games. Arthur Adams, 10, surpassed the Under-13s javelin club record set 11 years ago by Ben McIntyre, throwing 37.85m, earning him the best performance of the match. His throw places him fourth in the UK Under-13 Rankings and first in the South West for 2025. Read more: Swindon Lightning Cheerleading wins medal at Allstar Worlds Teenager Esha Bhalerao broke the Under-15s pole vault club record, reaching 2.71m, surpassing Sophie Bath's four-year-old record. Lucy Bull, competing at the Brewer Memorial Games, broke her personal best in the Under-17s javelin by almost two metres, reaching 48.46m and breaking Hannah Lewington's 2022 record. This performance consolidates Bull's position as first in the UK Under-17 Rankings and lifts her to 12th on the All-Time Lists. The club also finished second to Cheltenham in the opening Youth Development League match. Team manager Craig Scott said: "Overall, we had a great day, and second was a great result given we were missing some key athletes. "We were not too far behind Cheltenham, which certainly gives us hope that we can catch them if we have our full-strength team out with all the gaps filled."
