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This is Lieutenant Colonel Nick Grace the Principal Director of Music of the Royal Marines and Robert Robson the CE of the Royal Navy and Royal Marine Charity. I had been invited to the Mountbatten Festival of Music in the Albert Hall by the RNRM Charity. It was outstanding. . This all part of the three single service charities working to gether and it was tremendous to see the Royal Marine Bands in action. Nick Grace is enthusiastic about the Royal Marines taking part in the British Military Tournament and he told me that the band taking part is the Band of the Royal Marine Training Centre who are currently in Helmand and BMT will be their first engagement after their return. This is all very exciting.