No one else was injured.Lt-Gen Richards spoke of British troops involved in “days and days of intense fighting, being woken up by yet another attack when they have not slept for 24 hours. A spokesman said the cause of the accident was being investigated, but insurgents were not involved. Soldiers at the base have created a temporary memorial to him with flowers and a photograph.Camp Souter is home to the British military contingent serving with the International Security Assistance Force (Isaf). British soldiers in Afghanistan are engaged in the most intense conflict faced by the UK since the Korean War, according to the Nato commander in the country. The comments by Lieutenant General David Richards, the British officer in charge of Western forces in Afghanistan, came with the news that another soldier had been killed – the 11th to die in eight weeks.
The soldier died in a traffic accident at the British headquarters, Camp Souter, in Kabul.
He was named as Leigh Reeves, 25, of Leicester, who was serving with the Royal Logistic Corps. “This is a particular form where there is some evidence that there is a genetic component and you have to unravel the interaction between the genes and the environment, which is a very difficult area.”. Dr Gibson said that he still hoped that there would be a proper study of the influence of genetics as a cause. “I just hope in the study that is taking place they will look at the genetic influences and take it into consideration when they come to understand the structure of the genetic pool in an area like Norfolk,” he said. That might mean more of them have got the same gene which predisposes them to it.” Research has shown that some 345 children in Norfolk suffer from type 1 diabetes – more than double the 160 predicted cases for the county. If you look at the names in Norfolk, there’s a lot that are the same.
“There is an inbreeding complex in villages – people inter-marry. He said that he had been trying to make a serious point about the high incidence in the county of type 1 diabetes which was thought to have a genetic component. “Words like in-breeding and out-breeding are very professional, genetic terms,” he said. “We use them all the time but to the public that has connotations which they don’t understand, or feel that it demeans them and I understand that and that is why I apologise.” Dr Gibson originally made his comments in an interview when he was asked what he thought was causing high levels of the condition in the county.
“I would imagine it is linked to the fact that people in Norfolk are quite inbred with many not leaving the county,” he was quoted as saying. Challenged by the Eastern Daily Press on whether local people would be offended, he replied: “Probably, but they are inbred. Ian Gibson, Labour MP for Norwich North and a former science lecturer, admitted that his comments had upset many people.
“It has obviously caused a lot of offence and for that I unreservedly apologise,” he said on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme. But with more than 200 million air travellers passing through British terminals last year, and numbers expected to keep rising, safety can never be guaranteed.. For the weary travellers crammed into the packed terminals at Heathrow, the mood was one of frustration rather than fear of what could have been. Thousands were stranded at Heathrow as news of the alleged terror plot spread and hundreds of flights were cancelled or delayed.
