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Defence in the Media: 3 March 2017

Posted by: MOD News Team, Posted on: 3 March 2017 - Categories: Defence in the media, NATO, Operations, Personnel
Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon visited Edinburgh University's Officer Training Corps, and met soldiers from various Scotland-based British Army units. Crown Copyright.

Of note for Defence news today is Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon's visit to Scotland, and reporting that the British Army's bomb disposal experts have dealt with an unexploded Second World War bomb in London.

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Defence in the Media: 27 August 2016

Posted by: MOD News Team, Posted on: 27 August 2016 - Categories: Defence in the media

There is widespread coverage across broadcast and in print that an Army bomb disposal team was sent to Birmingham’s Lee Bank as a precautionary measure as five men were arrested by West Midlands anti-terrorism police. 

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Defence in the Media: 16 May 2016

Posted by: MOD News Team, Posted on: 16 May 2016 - Categories: Defence in the media

...to be evacuated and a controlled explosion by Army bomb-disposal experts was carried out on the device. The papers write that the device turned out to be an ‘incredibly lifelike’...

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Defence in the media: 23 May 2015

Posted by: MOD News Team, Posted on: 23 May 2015 - Categories: Defence in the media, Reactive statements

The safe removal of a WW2 bomb from Wembley by Army bomb disposal experts continues to make headlines today. In other defence news, it is reported that ISIL are making...

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Army teams successfully detonate World War Two bomb found in London

Posted by: MOD News Team, Posted on: 22 May 2015 - Categories: Breaking News, Personnel
Wembley WW2 bomb being transported to an undisclosed location for safe detonation

...legacy munitions around the United Kingdom; almost 2,000 tasks were conducted in 2014. Whilst this is at the larger end of the scale, the approach to the task is no...

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Defence in the Media: 22 May 2015

Posted by: MOD News Team, Posted on: 22 May 2015 - Categories: Defence in the media
A British Army bomb disposal expert inspects the World War Two German bomb.

...can to minimise the disruption but ask the public to bear with us - any bomb, even under a controlled explosion could cause significant damage to property and there is...

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