Rutland Cottesmore: Oakham Peppers A Safe Place

 

A safe place in Oakham Visit the site www.peppersasafeplace.co.uk and find out more

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Rutland Cottesmore: Rutland Recycling Centres Sign Up

 

From Monday 28th November, all vehicles will need to be registered to use our local recycling centres. Please make sure your vehicle is registered before you visit your local recycling centre.

You can do this online through MyAccount: www.rutland.gov.uk

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Rutland Cottesmore: Military Discount Self Storage

 

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ASDIC - Association of Service Drop-In Centres

The Association of Service Drop-In Centres (ASDIC) represents and links veterans’ Drop-Ins across the country. ​​Sometimes called Hubs or Centres, Drop-Ins offer a variety of welfare and mental health support, together with comradeship and a sense of well-being, to the ex-military community and their families, and ASDIC helps them to enhance the service they can provide and make them more accessible.​

Click here to find your nearest drop-in centre

Separation and divorce guide for military personnel spouses and partners

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/separation-and-divorce-guide-for-military-personnel-spouses-and-partners

Rutland Cottesmore: Cottesmore Military Wives Choir

 

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Rutland Cottesmore: Rutland County Council Warm Hubs

 

Did you know Rutland libraries and Uppingham Methodist Church are acting as warm hubs for those struggling to heat their homes? Find details of opening times HERE along with other ways in which we can support you through the rising cost of living 

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Rutland Cottesmore: Cost of living support in Rutland

Please tap the image to read the booklet and to view links

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New Documentary Hearts and Minds: A Very British Tactic Now on Forces News YouTube

New Documentary Hearts and Minds: A Very British Tactic Now on Forces News YouTube

In this new documentary, Forces News takes an in-depth look at the unique tactic of 'Hearts and Minds', 20 years after it was used by the British Army during the Iraq War.

British military commanders and soldiers on the ground in Iraq used the term when working with local people. Hearts and Minds: A Very British Tactic looks at the origin of the approach, how it was applied in Iraq and asks if it is still relevant today by talking to key military players.

In a rare TV interview, Lieutenant General Sir Graeme Lamb, the British commander in 2003, says hearts and minds “underpins everything I ever did in uniform". He was Director of Special Forces and played a key role in the development of counterinsurgency in Iraq.

General Lord Dannatt, the Chief of the General Staff from 2006 to 2009, explains why winning hearts and minds was so important.

“A counterinsurgency campaign is always going to be about the people. That's why war is in any sense a human activity. It's amongst the people."

The documentary also hears from former soldier and leading war studies academic, Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, on what it was like going into Iraqi homes and schools as troops on the ground put the idea into practice.
The film also explores the impact latterly of the deteriorating security situation.

Colonel Tim Collins, who famously gave a rousing eve-of-invasion speech to his soldiers, compares hearts and minds to taking a course of antibiotics.

“You have to stay and grip it until the problem has gone away and that's quite a long time. If you stop half-way through, withdraw to barracks, you have no control of what's happening."

The documentary Hearts and Minds: A Very British Tactic is available to watch on Forces News YouTube channel now. https://www.youtube.com/@forces_news

Rutland Cottesmore: Fancy soaring above Rutland Water!

 

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