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She will receive a ceremonial parchment from Air Vice Marshal (Air Officer Commanding Directly Administered Units) Terry Sherrington, marking the long and close association between the Service and the people of Hong Kong.
Air Vice Marshal Sherrington is visiting Hong Kong from its headquarters at RAF Strike Command, High Wycombe, in the United Kingdom, specially to take part in the parade.
Mrs Chan, accompanied by Senior RAF Officer Hong Kong, Wing Commander Barrie Simmonds, will also be invited to inspect a 24-man parade flight.
The RAF station at Borneo Lines, Sek Kong, will continue for two more months before closure, and the Wessex helicopters of No 28(AC) Squadron will continue to operate in the territory from Kai Tak Airport until June 1997.
However, the annual commemoration of RAF's finest hour, when it repulsed the German air invasion of Britain in 1940, provides the best opportunity for a fitting farewell ceremony to Hong Kong.
Hong Kong has hosted RAF since 1927, when the very first RAF station in the Far East was established at Kai Tak. For over 20 years, it has also been the home of the last RAF station in the region, first at Kai Tak and then, since 1978, at Sek Kong.
The parade will include the final lowering of the RAF ensign and a formation flypast by four Wessex helicopters. It will then be followed by the last Battle of Britain memorial service to be held in St Martin's, the RAF church at Sek Kong.
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Insider Dealing Tribunal lay members appointed
The Financial Secretary had appointed Mr Kennedy Liu Tat-yin and Mr Simon Lam Siu-lun as lay members of the Second Division of the Insider Dealing Tribunal to hear the case of Hong Kong Parkview Group Ltd, a government spokesman announced today (Thursday).
The Parkview case is the fifth insider dealing case referred by the Financial Secretary to the Tribunal since the Securities (Insider Dealing) Ordinance came into effect in September 1991.