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Defence in the Media: 13 June 2015

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As the Red Arrows completed a flypast over Buckingham Palace today, the media has reported from the Brecon Beacons SAS inquest and on America's spending against ISIL.

SAS inquest

The Daily Mirror continues to cover updates from the Brecon Beacons inquest, reporting that the coroner has criticised MoD lawyers who searched bins for confidential waste at the building where the inquest is being held. MoD lawyer Jonathan Hall QC said: "The steps taken were to secure that documentation. I accept it was done in a way that was not correct". Elsewhere, the Daily Telegraph, The Sun and Mail write that an Army officer who was running the test march failed to notice that one of the men had not moved for 44 minutes.

ISIL

Figures released by the US yesterday to show that they are spending $9m a day battling ISIL are reported in The Independent and The Times. Meanwhile a leader in The Independent says that the US strategy in Iraq is to avoid sending ground troops to the country.

The Red Arrows fly over Buckingham Palace as crowds celebrate the Queen's official birthday. One thousand one hundred soldiers from the Household Division were joined by almost 250 immaculately groomed military horses, six blindingly polished First World War 13-Pounder Guns and 350 military musicians at the ancient annual ceremony known as Trooping the Colour at Horse Guards Parade. The Royal family watched from the balcony of Wellington’s office, and more than 8,500 guests including the Prime Minister, foreign dignitaries, and Defence Chiefs of Staff, filled the stands on Horse Guards, while tens of thousands of the public lined the route, as The Royal Colonels: The Duke of Edinburgh, The Duke of Kent, The Prince of Wales, The Duke of Cambridge, and The Princess Royal, accompanied Her Majesty in stately procession down the Mall to inspect the Parade.

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