A reporting team from the Plymouth Herald was today due to travel to the Falklands, ahead of the 25th anniversary of the Falklands conflict.

Defence reporter Tristan Nichols, and executive picture editor Pete Holdgate – a former Commando Forces photographer – will spend a week gathering first-hand accounts from veterans and hearing the views of islanders.

As well as photographs and reports, they will collect personal accounts and tour key battlefields with a head-camera.

It will be the first time Pete has returned to the Falklands since he served there during the conflict.

The former Royal Navy Petty Officer, then aged 30, used to gather pictures of the islands for operational planning.

He took hundreds of photographs covering major ground battles and the victory push through Port Stanley on June 14.

Pete said: “Last time I was there was 25 years ago, and it’s somewhere I never thought I’d go back to, probably because it’s so far.

“But more and more people said that I must go back, and I’m looking forward to it.

“Obviously last time it was very exciting and we were all living on adrenalin, so it will be a little different this time.”

The Herald’s coverage will begin April 2, 25 years to the day of the invasion of the British islands by Argentina.

During the trip Pete plans to return to the site where he took his famous ‘Yomper’ image (above).

And the two newsmen will also lay a wreath in memory of the 258 British servicemen who died protecting the far outpost, on behalf of Plymouth and South Hams branches of the Royal British Legion.