Defence in the media – Wednesday 30th March 2016
Today’s defence news review covers issues including Trident, Syria, Libya, the sentencing of two soldiers in Wales for assault and Army recruitment.
Daily updates of how defence is reported in the UK media
Today’s defence news review covers issues including Trident, Syria, Libya, the sentencing of two soldiers in Wales for assault and Army recruitment.
Reporting on defence issues in today’s papers includes articles on the new Hawk support contract with BAE and Babcock and updates on the Pakistan suicide bomb that killed at least 72 people.
Broadcast headlines this morning lead with the news from yesterday that more than 70 people have been killed in a suicide attack in Pakistan. There is also continued reporting that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has welcomed the recapture of Palmyra …
Of note in Defence news today is further coverage about a potential deployment of UK military personnel to Libya, and reporting that Syrian forces have entered parts of Palmyra. Libya The Sunday Telegraph reports on its front page that there has been …
In today's items of interest for defence there are reports on key Daesh targets being hit by US forces and articles on the female Peshmerga fighters being trained by UK forces in Northern Iraq.
A variety of Defence stories are covered in today’s media, including on-going coverage of the terrorist attacks in Brussels.
Today’s defence news blog covers issues including Britain’s nuclear deterrent and an investigation into a fatal shooting in Iraq that found a soldier acted in self-defence.
The papers today are dominated by the terror attacks in Brussels as Belgium begins three days of national mourning following the bomb attacks which killed more than 30 people.
The news agenda is this morning dominated by the attacks in Brussels. Elsewhere of note for Defence, there is continued coverage of the Iraq suicide attack and reports of rotten food allegedly served to our Armed Forces. Meanwhile an Emergency …
Today's Defence news includes continued coverage of inaccurate allegations about incidents at Pirbright Barracks, and reporting that references the UK's support to Ethiopian security forces. Pirbright There is follow-up coverage, in the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail, of the Sun on Sunday’s story which inaccurately reported that two recruits were ‘forced’ …