Pen Farthing and animals 'safe' after leaving Kabul
Former Royal Marine Pen Farthing set up the Nowzad animal shelter after serving in Afghanistan in the mid-2000s
Dr Iain McGill, the vet in the team, confirmed Mr Farthing's plane arrived at Heathrow Airport on Sunday morning. He said they had been checked and had gone to quarantine kennels, adding: "As you can imagine they're not short of homes for these animals.""He managed to get some sleep on the plane, which is the first time he's probably slept for a while. He's remarkably chipper and obviously glad to be back on UK soil."The Nowzad charity said on social media that it was a "devastating blow" that their "wonderful team" had been left behind.
But Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has complained some of Mr Farthing's supporters had "taken up too much time of my senior commanders dealing with this issue when they should be focused on dealing with the humanitarian crisis". But speaking to LBC on Saturday, Foreign Affairs Select Committee chair Tom Tugendhat said: "The difficulty is getting people into and out of the airport and we've just used a lot of troops to bring in 200 dogs, meanwhile my interpreter's family are likely to be killed.
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