News websites are a salvation in Helmand.
From: Scarborough Evening News (Scarborough, England)
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Date: 12/24/2007
&type=NEWS "Scarborough Evening News (Scarborough, England)")
EVENING News reporter IAN DUNCAN is spending Christmas in Afghanistan's notorious Helmand Province with members of the 2nd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards) who are currently on a six-month tour of duty. This is the first of his daily reports.
THIS is not the first Christmas former Scarborough Technical College student Captain Henry Bowden has been away from his family - but he is managing to keep up to date with the home news by checking out newspaper websites.
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