Welsh oilmen tell of Libya rescue by British forces

Welsh oilmen tell of Libya rescue by British forces: "Two oil workers from south Wales have told how British forces rescued them from Libya.

Marsden Sims, 63, a civil engineer from Tonyrefail, was among 218 British and foreign nationals taken to Malta on board HMS Cumberland on Monday.

He said looters had targeted his works compound at Messla.

Another man, Darren Simmons, from Cardiff, was flown out by the SAS, and he described them as 'absolutely exceptional'.

Mr Simmons, who was working in an oil field several hours from Tripoli, said: 'We had a phone call Saturday morning at 10 o' clock to say just get your basic essentials and we'd be picked up at 11 o' clock, by whom we didn't know.'

He said he and colleagues were taken to a desert camp where an RAF Hercules was waiting for them to board.

Mr Simmons was one of 154 people flown out."

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