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Geraldine McKelvie

Wildlife filmmakers became British spies holed up in Falklands hut as Argentina invaded

They had journeyed to the furthest reaches of the South Atlantic to make a film about wildlife.

But when Argentinian forces landed on South Georgia island in April 1982, as part of the Falklands invasion, Annie Price and Cindy Buxton became accidental spies.

Holed up in a hut the size of a garden shed, the women spent four weeks sending coded messages to the British naval ship which would eventually come to their rescue.

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