Controversy over SAS founder Mayne

Hero: Blair Mayne

BLAIR Mayne could famously start a fight in a phone box and kicked up a storm all over North Africa and Europe but Britain’s most decorated soldier from WWII is now causing a row 62 years after his death.
Ards and North Down Borough Council have voted to name their splendid new sports centre in Newtownards after the rampaging former Ireland and Lions flanker, one of the most feared forwards in the game before World War II.
The Social Democratic and Labour Party, however, are not happy with the choice of Mayne who was a founding father of the SAS, a ...

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