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Bluebell under threat from Spanish armada
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SCOTLAND'S native bluebells are being killed off by Spanish
varieties and need the help of gardeners to survive, according to
wildflower experts.
Scottish Natural Heritage is calling for support in controlling
the spread of the Spanish bluebell, which has light-blue flowers and
little scent.
It has been breeding with Scotland's native variety, which is a
deep violet blue and has a strong, sweet scent. It is estimated that
a third of all bluebells in the UK are either the Spanish or hybrid
varieties.
As part of Scottish Biodiversity Week, members of the public are
being asked to try to ...
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Espionage: The Kim Philby story.(Opinion & Editorial)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin
; ...Graduating from Cambridge in 1933, Kim Philby became correspondent of The Times...Economist and The Observer to hire Kim Philby as correspondent in the Middle East...So, in September of that year, Kim Philby flew to Beirut. But his remuneration...
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The Real `Perfect Spy'; For a Generation, Kim Philby Defined the Meaning of Betrayal
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...SAY WHAT you like about Harold "Kim" Philby, the Soviet spy who died in Moscow...characters were usually versions of Kim Philby. Philby was truly the perfect spy...unfinished one at that, the story of Kim Philby lives on in us . . . . Philby...
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The Moscow reminiscences of Kim Philby
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...hundreds of articles have been devoted to Harold "Kim" Philby, the celebrated British turncoat. Philby himself wrote My Silent War, a KGB-approved...and a spin-off in the U.S. titled The Philby Conspiracy soon appeared. One of its authors...
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The Third Man.(Kim Philby was the most important of the Russian spies in Britain)
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report
; ...an Anglo agent, adviser to Ibn-Saud, Philby." The reference was to one Harold A. R. Philby, a recent Cambridge graduate the Soviets...father, an adviser to Saudi Arabia. But in "Kim" Philby, who signed up for the job in 1934, the...
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A Cold War Love Story.(Russin spy Kim Philby and his wife)
Magazine article from: Insight on the News
; ...Cold War British `double agent' Kim Philby reveals the details of what happened...notorious British `double agent' Kim Philby was devoted to for the last two decades...so-called "Magnificent Five": Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess, Donald...
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SPY KIM PHILBY'S LIFE IN EXILE AS A HOMEBODY
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...t envision a bleaker destiny. Kim Philby, the maestro of this century's...by three other kinds of material. Kim Philby's previously unpublished autobiographical...by-products," Peake notes, "Kim Philby would become for one side the model...
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Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy Double agent Kim Philby's friendship with novelist Graham Greene was laced with deceit - yet loyal to the end
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; Kim Philby was the most devastating Soviet mole ever...and flummoxed the rest of the world. When Philby was exposed as a double agent in 1963...their native England by publicly defending Philby's treason. Greene maintained that Philby...
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 "Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR)")
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Interview: Author Phillip Knightley discusses the life of British double agent Kim Philby
Transcript from: Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR)
; ...the life of British double agent Kim Philby Host: SCOTT SIMON Time: 1:00...and for that matter literature, is Kim Philby. He was charming, cunning and ruthless...not convict him, of espionage. Kim Philby wound up fleeing to Moscow. His...
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`Kim' Philby, 76, dies; British spy fled to U.S.S.R.
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; LONDON Master spy Harold "Kim" Philby, the British traitor and notorious...the Soviet Embassy in London. Mr. Philby, born to a prominent British family...When the ring began closing in on Philby himself, he went to Moscow in 1963...
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Soviet Spy Kim Philby, 76, Dies in U.S.S.R.
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; H.A.R. (Kim) Philby, 76, a former high official of Britain...by the Soviet Embassy in London. Mr. Philby was a central figure in a collection...fled to Moscow in 1951. For years Mr. Philby was suspected of being the "third man...
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