Watch: Soldier on parachuting to remote island to bring Hantavirus aid

A specialist team helped supply critical medical support to Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic. Copyright current_year BBC. All rights reserved. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Read about our approach to external linking. Copyright current_year BBC. All rights reserved. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Read about our approach to external linking. Captain George Lacey (right), and parachutist landing on the island (left) Captain George Lacey (left), and parachutist landing on the island (right) Watch: Soldier on parachuting to remote island to bring Hantavirus aid Members of the British Army have parachuted onto the remote Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha to help a British national with suspected hantavirus. Two paratroopers jumped in tandem with an intensive care nurse and a specialist doctor. Medical supplies were also delivered. The patient left MV Hondius, the cruise ship hit by a deadly outbreak of the virus, in mid-April at Britain's most remote inhabited overseas territory, where he lives. Captain George Lacey, who jumped with the Pathfinders Platoon, based at Colchester Garrison, said high winds made it the mission "a particularly tricky one". He said the team would be on the island for a few days awaiting recovery, because "sadly, you can't parachute back off the island". Before the fragile ceasefire in the region, this was one of the most heavily targeted US and UK military bases in the Middle East. On the 85th anniversary of the Blitz and ahead of a new play about it, BBC News NI talks to 93-year-old Reggie who lived through it. A friend of a missing Brazilian psychologist says she had been struggling with her mental health. Staff say they discovered the new arrival in the early hours of 2 February. Video shows fennec fox Pinky at Colchester Zoo, where she will be introduced to resident male Otis. 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