内容摘要：McColl wanted an independent technical review to settle the matter swiftly; CMAL saw it as a matter best decided in the courts and challenged him to sue.

McColl wanted an independent technical review to settle the matter swiftly; CMAL saw it as a matter best decided in the courts and challenged him to sue.

Jersey has chosen Danish firm DFDS to provide its lifeline passenger and freight services, sparking a row in Guernsey, which chose Brittany Ferries to run its sea links.The decision means the end of

of providing ferry services to Jersey.A statement from the Government of Jersey said the agreement, which is still to be signed, would mean more frequent ferries to the UK and France in peak periods, faster ferries to the UK and two high-speed ferries in summer.The announcement drew criticism in Guernsey, with the island's tourism board branding the tender process a "shambles".

The Council of Ministers hadafter Guernsey's Committee for Economic Development

that it would award the tender to Condor's parent company, Brittany Ferries.

Deputy Kirsten Morel said Jersey had run a "robust procurement process that has been independently moderated" and the results showed DFDS was "the strongest strategic partner for Jersey"."We talk about the impact of heavy casualties on the

[units comprising men for the same area, workplace or social group] but the fall of Singapore was just as devastating on these communities," he said."It's beyond imagination, really, because everybody's gone in the battalion at the same time, down to the lowest private, and there's a lack of information and clarity about what's happened to them for months and, in some cases, years."

Many of those who survived - like Tom Allard from Swaffham, Norfolk - could never bring themselves to talk about their treatment at the hands of the Japanese army, according to Swaffham Museum archivist Sue Gattuso.Conscripted into the Suffolk Regiment, Mr Allard "described how he was captured and marched to Changi Prison with the shells falling all around them", she said.