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Relieved inhabitants of this island paradise handed flowers to the troops as US planes celebrated overhead by firing rockets into their homes.

Meanwhile, pockets of Cubaninspired rebels continued to try to overthrow the rightiul American administration. These highly trained regiments of Cuban airport workers, disguised in t-shirts and shorts and carrying rifles, downed four helicopters and killed more than two dozen US troops in Marxist-backed attempt to stay alive against the wishes of the American president.

The Cuban airport team is believed to be a front for highly trained troops. American sources said that the airport was much too large to have been built by airport construction workers.

President Reagan praised the efforts of his forces against "overwhelming odds" . In a heartwarming speech to the American nation, President Reagan said:

"They told us Grenada was an island paradise for tourism. But we have found warehouses stacked to the ceiling with tarmac, bulldozers, and paint. It was clear that Grenada was to be used as a staging post for hardfaced thugs to spread airports all over Central America and to undermine the US itself by turning our freeways into airstrips. We got there just in time."

In Havana, President denied that Cuba had planned to invade Grenada, a claim immediately dismissed by reporters on this paper who will not bore you with the details.

Our reporter on the spot, cowering in the basement of a St. George hotel, asked the doorman whether the invasion was welcomed.

"Oh yes, boss. We am so happy to see the fun-loving American marines enjoying our Island paradise," he said.

the interview was cut short as he was hit by a stray bullet and died in our reporter's arms, another victim of this Marxist attempt at a take-over.

Meanwhile, in London the row over the invasion continues. The Governor-General, Sir Paul Scoon rang her majesty at 3 am with an official request to send some Grenadier guards to join the peace-keeping force.

This report was denied by the Palace and by Downing Street. But the Americans said that they expected soon to have obtained a written request from Scoon predating their arrival, asking for help.

We are conducting interviews with him now, said an American spokesman and we expect him to have asked us for permission at any stage.

This point has been seized on by Mr Denis Healey with devastating effect in a Parliamentary performance which reestablished the Labour Party with the lobby correspondents.

Mr Healey went straight to the root of the situation - the insult to her majesty.

As gloomy Tories looked at their shoes, Mr Healey castigated them for embarrassing the Queen and allowing the invasion to go ahead. If Labour had been in power, he said, they never would have allowed an island paradise to be left in the hands of a governor general, but would have had it ruled by Prince Andrew as part of his training for a life of idleness.

The Palace today said it was delighted that Sir Paul Scoon was safe and had managed to escape from American custody.

Now the focus of attention will concentrate on restoring the island to democracy: President Reagan is arranging a poll of right wing exiles from the island to see who should be given the tourist franchise on license from the American government.

The British are believed to prefer a government chosen from distinguished Caribbean leaders in favour of the invasion.

Once the leader has been received a request from Caribbean leaders to "restore democracy to Cuba" and that the request was being considered. In a separate message to Margaret Thatcher the President said he was concerned by reports at the size of the M40 motorway, • planned for the English Midlands. He said he would regard the construction of a three-lane motorway in «a two-bit country as a "sinister development"

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