sent to the different ports of Sicily, in case any
Russian or Turkish ships had arrived, to put them on their guard, and
to request co-operation by joining the force assembling off Minorca,
where Nelson reasoned Lord St. Vincent also would repair. To the
latter he wrote: "Eight, nine, or ten sail of the line shall, in a few
days, be off Mahon, ready to obey your orders (not in the port);" for
his intention was that they should remain outside under sail. "You may
depend upon my exertion, and I am only sorry that I cannot move[81] to
your help, but this island appears to hang on my stay. Nothing could
console the Queen this night, but my promise not to leave them unless
the battle was to be fought off Sardinia."

The next day he wrote againHealth Forum, which advises the Government, said: 'If this rate of death among young men was an infection, there would have been a lot more attention paid to it.' The new measures will come too late to help Mike Whitaker, who seemed to have everything to live for. He was in his last year of a chemistry degree at Bath University and was expected to get a first. He had a job lined up, a girlfriend and was captain of the clay pigeon shooting team. 'He was very successful at whatever he did.' said his mother, Jenny Whitaker. But one morning at the end of the Christmas break, Jenny awoke to find the car gone, while her husband found the back door open. Then they saw a one-line