Defence in the Media: 17 September 2015
Today's news includes reports on ISIL, HMS Richmond, the Ebola operation homecoming parade and the Marine A campaign.
Daily updates of how defence is reported in the UK media
Today's news includes reports on ISIL, HMS Richmond, the Ebola operation homecoming parade and the Marine A campaign.
Sky News, BBC News and the Today Programme all report that HMS Richmond will be offered to the EU mission to tackle people smugglers at their source.
A variety of Defence stories are covered by the broadcast and print media, including previews of today’s service at St Paul’s Cathedral and fly past, commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain.
This morning’s broadcast news includes an interview on Radio 4’s Today programme with General John Allen, special presidential envoy for the US-led coalition fighting ISIL. He says that ISIL has to be defeated and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad "had to go".
On a day when broadcast and print media continue to be dominated by Jeremy Corbyn’s election as leader of the Labour party, the papers report on the fight against ISIL and defence procurement.
In today's defence-related news there's further reporting on calls for a review of the conviction of Sgt Alexander Blackman, comment about air strikes in Syria and imagery from a RAF Typhoon interception.
Of note for UK Defence news this morning, the Daily Mail splashes on the ‘Marine A’ case as a new campaign is launched to get the authorities to reconsider the sentence of Sgt Alexander Blackman
Today's broadcast and print news includes the Government's fight against ISIL, Defence spending and Afghan Interpreters.
News coverage this morning includes the on-going debate over the RAF ‘drone’ strike that killed two British jihadists in Syria, following the Prime Minister’s announcement on Monday.
This morning’s broadcast headlines and newspapers are dominated by the Prime Minister’s announcement yesterday afternoon that two British ISIL jihadists, Reyaad Khan and Ruhul Amin, who died in Syria, were killed by an RAF ‘drone’ strike.