Defence in the Media: 3 February 2015
Alcohol in the armed forces Today the BBC has reported claims by a psychiatrist that the government’s strategy for combating alcohol abuse in the military is ineffective. Drinking alcohol is...
Alcohol in the armed forces Today the BBC has reported claims by a psychiatrist that the government’s strategy for combating alcohol abuse in the military is ineffective. Drinking alcohol is...
Today’s defence related news includes coverage of HMS Queen Elizabeth’s arrival in Portsmouth and the increased risk of MS among the Armed Forces. HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH ENTERS PORTSMOUTH BBC Breakfast,...
Today HMS Bulwark rescued over 400 migrants in the Mediterranean. The Royal Navy flagship was alerted to four craft in potential distress approximately 40 miles off the coast of Libya....
Today's newspapers are dominated by the publication of Prince Charles's letters to government ministers in the mid-2000s, after what the media describes as a long secrecy battle. It is widely...
...taking place today, involving Italian, German and Irish naval units. Bulwark will function as a ‘rescue hub’ to accept and transfer around 800 people to a designated port of safety...
Defence news today includes reporting about a new radar facility in Shetland, and further coverage of the Defence Secretary's Russia-focused interview in yesterday's Daily Telegraph. Saxa Vord radar station Newspapers...
...on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, the UK will today send an RAF C-17 aircraft to Tunisia, in order to collect and bring home British nationals who were injured in...
Today's defence news is dominated by forty-eight Royal Navy sailors taking their places in history at today's Changing of the Guard ceremony outside Buckingham Palace. ROYAL NAVY MAKE HISTORY IN...
Today’s coverage includes the story that the final five bodies of the 30 Britons who died in the Tunisia beach attack last week will be flown home today on board...
Today’s news includes plans for a permanent memorial to the victims of the Tunisian terrorist attack in Britain, and a site of remembrance for all British nationals killed in atrocities...