Search results for ‘Ministry of Defence’
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Funding pledge for nuclear submarines
Defence Secretary Philip Hammond will announce an additional £350m of funding for the next stage of designing the future generation of British nuclear submarines during a visit to Faslane Naval Base.
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F&C soldier deportations: ‘breach of military covenant’
Exclusive: Former defence secretary Dr Liam Fox tells Channel 4 News Home Office rules which are leaving foreign and commonwealth soldiers facing deportation are “a breach of the military covenant”.
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Battle of El Alamein: 70 years on
Tributes are paid to those who fought in the battle that marked the turning point of world war two and which gave the British the upper hand for the first time.
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Anti-tank mines stolen from freight train
Police in north west England appeal for information as a consignment of powerful anti-tank mines is stolen from a goods train after it stops at Warrington.
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Britain to ‘double number of drones in Afghanistan’
Britain boosts to 10 the number of drone aircraft flying combat and surveillance operations in Afghanistan, as the foreign secretary faces questions over UK support for US drones in Pakistan.
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Families win right to pursue MoD over soldier deaths
Families of soldiers killed in Iraq are given permission to pursue the government for damages for allegedly failing to provide armoured vehicles or equipment that could have save their loved ones.
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Army wrongly advised soldiers over disciplinary hearings
Exclusive: British commanders were unaware of the serious implications that follow from disciplinary findings against foreign and Commonwealth soldiers until they were reported by Channel 4 News.
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UK drone spend could pay wages of 30,000 new troops
A report into Britain’s spending on military drones over the last five years reveals the most clear evidence yet that the future of warfare is unmanned and remote-controlled.
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MPs’ concern over spy plane decision
The government’s decision to scrap Nimrod surveillance aircraft poses a risk to Britain’s security, according to an all-party committee of MPs.
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Isaf: we will continue to train Afghan forces
The Defence Secretary Phil Hammond tells the Commons there will be no change in Nato’s strategy of training Afghan police and soldiers following a spate of rogue attacks.
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Eight dead in separate rogue attacks in Afghanistan
Four US soldiers are killed in an attack at a remote checkpoint by suspected Afghan police in southern Zabul province, following the deaths of two British soldiers in similar circumstances.
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Taliban: ‘We will kidnap Prince Harry at any cost’
Senior Taliban commanders have vowed to kidnap Prince Harry at any cost – or kill him.
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Prince Harry back on the Afghan front line
Prince Harry is back in Afghanistan. He arrived at Camp Bastion in the early hours of this morning, and it is intended he will spend four months flying missions in Apache helicopters.
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Public sector outsourcing: the political connections
In the final part of our special series into the private companies who run some of our public services, Channel 4 News looks at the connections between the firms and government.
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Paralympic Games: a shared history of tragedy
“Our country is known by genocide, now we have a chance to go there and Rwanda be known by the good players, not by genocide, by sport.”
