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One dead, two missing after RAF Tornado jets crash
One member of air crew dies and two others remain unaccounted for after two Tornado jets crashed off the coast of Scotland on Tuesday, the Ministry of Defence confirms.
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More missile sites as part of London 2012 security
The Ministry of Defence announces six possible missile launch sites, including several in residential areas, to protect the skies over London during the Olympic Games.
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British soldiers killed in Afghanistan named
The six British soldiers killed in southern Afghanistan after their armoured warrior was hit by an explosion are named by the Ministry of Defence. Four are aged 20 or under.
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British war dead in Afghanistan: Interactive timeline
Putting faces to numbers: as the Ministry of Defence announces Britain’s 400th military death since the war in Afghanistan began, Channel 4 News maps the casualties in this interactive graph.
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Eight arrested in payments probe
Five employees of The Sun, a police officer, a member of the armed forces and a Ministry of Defence employee are arrested over allegations of inappropriate payments to police and public officials.
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Theft of military hardware ‘soaring’, MPs report
Thefts of military equipment are soaring and the Ministry of Defence is doing too little to address the problem or seize expensive kit back, say MPs.
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Liam Fox quizzed about friend’s access to MoD
Labour MPs quiz Defence Secretary Liam Fox about his friendship with a man who allegedly claims to be one of his advisers and has visited him at the Ministry of Defence on many occasions.
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Government to pay Bloody Sunday compensation
The Ministry of Defence is preparing to pay compensation to relatives of those killed or injured by soldiers on Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland.
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Pilot killed in Red Arrows crash near Bournemouth
The Ministry of Defence has confirmed that 33-year-old Flight Lieutenant Jon Egging was killed when his Red Arrow crashed earlier.
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MoD to axe 40 per cent of its civilian workforce
Thousands more civil servants are set to lose their jobs at the Ministry of Defence in a second wave of cuts that will reduce its workforce by 40 per cent.
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MoD loss of kit ‘alarming’, say MPs
MPs say the fact that billions of pounds worth of Ministry of Defence equipment has gone missing is “alarming” and undermines military calls for more funding.
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Missing soldier found dead in Afghanistan
A British soldier who went missing from his base in southern Afghanistan has been found dead, the Ministry of Defence reveals. Next of kin have been informed.
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Libya operations – a modest cost?
The claim “What I can say is that the costs should be modest compared to some other operations like Afghanistan, and the Ministry of Defence’s initial view is that this will be in the order of the tens of millions not the hundreds of millions of pounds.”
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British soldiers killed in Afghanistan named by MoD
Two British soldiers killed in Afghanistan have been named by the Ministry of Defence. Craftsman Andrew Found, 27, and Corporal Lloyd Newell both died on Thursday in separate incidents.
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Child soldiers ‘jailed’ for going AWOL despite MoD policy
Despite the Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) policy of not keeping under 18-year-old recruits against their will, Britain’s child soldiers are being held in a military detention centre for going AWOL.