anne crossland

Retired.Married to @Tony1947Tony . Proud Granny. Passionate about books, like theatre and ❤ Orkney.

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Dramatic swells rolling in from the open ocean, smashing against the cliffs and surging deep into the cave as the light fades. A raw, elemental display of nature’s force on the Orkney coast.

[tony crossland @Tony1947Tony]

Lovely morning in Finstown Orkney #loveorkney

[anne crossland @AcAnniev12]

Heading of up the long road North in the morning for our holiday in Orkney.Staying in Perth Wednesday and sailing across Friday morning.

[Alan Mackinnon @cantickhead]

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[Claire Meakin @SeaMeakin]

Could never tire of this view 🤩 #Hoy #Orkney

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While watching the midsummer solstice last night, I decided to take a shot through my Oakley polarised sunnies and this was the pic!

@oakley #oakleybisphaera #solstice #orkney #orkneyuncovered

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Summer solstice in Deerness.

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Midsummer Solstice glow. Longest day, shortest shadows, and a quiet moment watching the sun slip into the sea. Grateful to be right here. 🌅✨

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

22 YEARS LATER AND NOBODY HAS ANSWERED FOR WHAT HAPPENED TO DR DAVID KELLY

His name was Dr David Kelly. Most people have forgotten him. They shouldn't.

He was a quiet, mild-mannered scientist who spent his career inspecting weapons facilities around the world.

He knew more about Iraq's arsenal than almost anyone alive.

In 2003, Tony Blair's @InstituteGC government published a dossier claiming Saddam Hussein could deploy chemical weapons within 45 minutes. That claim was used to justify a war.

Kelly knew the intelligence behind it was being exaggerated. He said so, privately, to a @BBCNews journalist.

That one conversation destroyed his life.

The government found out he was the source. Instead of protecting a man who had served his country for decades, they quietly let his name reach the press. He was publicly identified, dragged before two parliamentary committees, and grilled by his own employer.

His wife said he came home a broken man.

On the afternoon of 17 July 2003, he left his house for a walk in the Oxfordshire countryside. He was 59 years old. He never came back.

His body was found the next morning in woodland. A knife beside him. A blister pack of painkillers nearby.

Here is where it gets worse.

Tony Blair personally intervened to replace the normal coroner's inquest with a private inquiry run by Lord Hutton.

The original inquest was suspended before it even properly began. It was never resumed. To this day,

Dr David Kelly is the only person in England and Wales in living memory to have died in unexplained circumstances without receiving a full coroner's inquest.

Lord Hutton concluded suicide. Case closed.

Except eight senior doctors and a former coroner wrote to @thetimes saying the verdict was medically unsafe.

The wound found on Kelly's wrist, a severed ulnar artery, would not cause fatal blood loss in a healthy person.

There were no fingerprints on the knife. The painkillers found were not in a quantity that experts considered lethal.

The government's response, delivered by Attorney General Dominic Grieve in 2011, was essentially: the Hutton Inquiry was good enough, stop asking questions.

Think about that. A man quietly raised concerns about the biggest political deception in modern British history, a war that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He was publicly exposed, professionally destroyed, and found dead days later and the government personally made sure there would never be a proper independent investigation into how he died.

Tony Blair went on to become a Middle East Peace Envoy. He has a knighthood.

Dr David Kelly got a private inquiry, a rushed verdict, and a sealed post-mortem report that was not released to the public for years.

Nobody was ever held accountable. Not for any of it.

This story should be on the front page every single year. Share it if you think it matters.

Sources: @BBCNews @guardian @thetimes @PrivateEyeNews

[anne crossland @AcAnniev12]

@OrkneyUncovered My favourite is lemon curd.Hopingto be having some in two weeks.

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Sunset at the Ring of Brodgar.

Picture taken by a talented photographer called Mark from Iceland.

[anne crossland @AcAnniev12]

@MartinKnight_ 1987

[anne crossland @AcAnniev12]

@BerisfordRon To kill a mocking bird

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Ring of Brodgar tonight shortly before sunset.

[anne crossland @AcAnniev12]

@KeithMorayTales Looking forward to reading it.

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Dandelions on Stronsay at sunset this evening.

[Alan Mackinnon @cantickhead]

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[Alan Mackinnon @cantickhead]

What if £5 could change your life?

Win 2 lighthouse cottages in Orkney or take £200,000 cash instead.

Use code EARLYBIRD for DOUBLE tickets this week.

10% goes to charity.

Please repost — your share could genuinely change someone’s life.

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[anne crossland @AcAnniev12]

@RupertLowe10 @nats_tired You will just be letting Andy Burnham win.

[anne crossland @AcAnniev12]

@LBFlyawayhome Trees