GULF WAR hero Colonel Tim Collins, whose eve of battle speech to his men before they entered Iraq last year made him a national hero, has resigned from the British Army.

The colonel whose eve-of-battle speech to his men before they entered Iraq last year catapulted him to international attention has resigned from the British Army.

A British army spokesman says a Co Antrim man who died at a skydiving centre near Calgary, Alberta, Canada, made numerous successful jumps last week.