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When is a Harrier more expensive than a Tornado?
The claim “If we look at… what will be saved by deleting either (the Tornado fighter jet or the Harrier fast jet), we are saving more by deleting Harrier than we would the other way round.” Nick Harvey MP, Radio 4, 9th November 2010 Cathy Newman checks it out As the Ark Royal makes its…
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FactCheck: could cuts mean another Falklands?
FactCheck analyses the claim that defence cuts leave the Falklands vulnerable to attack.
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Harrier jet’s replacement ten years away
The Harrier jet is to be retired after more than 40 years of service to the RAF and Navy, the government confirmed today in its announcement of defence spending cuts.
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Defence review: Armed Forces face 8 per cent cut
The Government announces an 8 per cent cut to the Defence Budget with almost 50,000 jobs being axed along with naval destroyers, Harrier jets and the Nimrod aircraft project.
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LIVE BLOG: Defence cuts – restructuring the armed forces
David Cameron presents the Strategic Defence Review, cuts are expected to fall on the army in Germany, the Navy’s carrier fleet and RAF aircraft. Follow it as it happens on our live blog.
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Stagnation and decline if government doesn’t boost investment, warn leading economists
Rachel Reeves has been warned that she needs to “substantially increase” government investment to avoid “a vicious circle of stagnation and decline”.
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The Grenfell Inquiry – the indifference survivors say cost them so much
In the chaotic aftermath of the Grenfell fire, the response on the ground was disastrous and only served to reinforce the disconnect between authorities and institutions and the people they were in theory supposed to be serving.
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Exclusive: Threat of losing certain bird species altogether – new data shows
New monitoring data given exclusively to Channel 4 News shows we are now in real danger of losing some of our bird species altogether, with five more added to the at danger ‘Red List.’
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FactCheck: could Ukraine join NATO before Russia war ends?
The Czech President made the suggestion this week.
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‘There are enormous risks with Ukraine’s Kursk incursion’, says RUSI
We were joined by the Director of Military Sciences at the Royal United Services Institute, Matthew Savill.
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Navalny’s death says ‘more about Putin’s fears than anything else’
We spoke to Professor Mark Galeotti, who’s a senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute and the author of Putin’s Wars. We started by asking him the significance of Navalny’s body going missing.
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FactCheck: who are the Houthis, why has the UK used air strikes in Yemen and how is it linked to Israel and Gaza?
RAF Typhoons joined air strikes against targets in Yemen last night.
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FactCheck: are experts worried about first UK ‘pig’ flu case?
What is the strain, what are the symptoms in humans and are experts worried?
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A&E and intensive care nurses to join NHS strikes
Members of the Royal College of Nursing union will walk off the job at 8pm tonight. and won’t return until the end of the day tomorrow.
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Court rules second day of nurses strike unlawful
Nurses will have to cut short a planned 48 hour strike in England over the Bank holiday weekend after a court ruled that the second day of action was unlawful. The Royal College of Nursing described it as the “darkest day” of the dispute so far – criticising the government for “taking its own nurses…