Success for Hull paper's armoured cars campaign

Soldiers from East Yorkshire are the first in Iraq to patrol in heavily armoured Mastiff vehicles, following the Hull Daily Mail's "troops in peril" campaign. A spokesman for 1st Battalion, the Yorkshire Regiment, said the vehicles are being used for operations around Basra. The paper launched its campaign after Private Luke Simpson was killed in February when a roadside bomb blew up his soft-top Land Rover. (Via Hull Daily Mail)