Ww11 Doo In Chimney

[hawked again]

Don't know if I have posted in the correct place?

 

This was on the BBC website today:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20456782

 

Britain's top code-breakers say they are stumped by a secret code found on the leg of a dead pigeon.

 

The remains of the bird were found in a chimney in Surrey with a message from World War II attached.

 

Experts at the intelligence agency GCHQ have been struggling to decipher the message since they were provided with it a few weeks ago.

 

They say it may be impossible to decode it without more information - some of which could come from the public.

 

The message was discovered by David Martin when he was renovating the chimney of his house in Surrey.

 

Among the rubbish, he found parts of a dead pigeon including a leg. Attached to the leg was a red canister. Inside the canister was a thin piece of paper with the words "Pigeon Service" at the top and 27 handwritten blocks of code.

 

This was given to GCHQ at the start of the month.

 

There is a place on the page to leave comments on what the coded message may be saying.

 

Maybe you could leave comments along the lines of - Warning in the next fifty years children of Pigeon War Vets will be condemned to death by the policies of the RSPB and may well be gone by the year 2020.

 

This may be an opportunity to get across to the public what is happening to our sport. You could also maybe leave the names and stories of some of the VC (Dickins)holders.

 

Free publicity!

[Guest vice president]

ask whitty it was his doo :emoticon-0138-thinking:

[Tony C]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20749632

[OLDYELLOW]

Cheers Tony nice to see the code cracked