Defence in the Media: 24 February 2016
...nurse Pauline Cafferkey, who contracted ebola in Sierra Leone, being taken to the Royal Free Hospital in London for the third time with a “late complication”. Experts said that she...
Defence in the Media: 11 December 2015
...the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Jutland. The Centenary events being held in the Orkney Islands will include a morning service on 31 May 2016 at St Magnus Cathedral,...
Defence in the Media: 7 November 2015
...Sky are reporting that Sierra Leone is set to be declared free of the Ebola virus today after meeting the World Health Organisation’s standard of 42 days with no new...
Defence in the Media: 31 October 2015
...Barack Obama has agreed to send a small force - no more than 50 - to bolster rebel forces.. Afghanistan The Guardian (magazine) runs a feature on the families of...
Defence in the Media: 17 September 2015
...the bombing campaign against ISIL from Iraq into Syria. A comment piece by David Pannick QC runs in The Times where he writes that the guidelines for drone strikes and...
Defence in the Media: 14 July 2015
The Daily Mail’s front page this morning features an interview with a father of one of the reservists who died on a march on the Brecon Beacons ahead of the expected verdict from the inquest today.
Military personnel thanked for Ebola service at Downing Street
...the Downing Street reception received their medals from Defence Secretary Michael Fallon. Defence Secretary Michael Fallon, who visited Sierra Leone back in March, said: I saw first hand the heroism...
Defence in the Media: 4 July 2015
...53% of all Armed Forces personnel hate being in the forces. The short article suggests military personnel are “fed up” with service life, low pay, having to put on a...
Defence microbiologists tackle Ebola in Sierra Leone
...was one of 12 microbiologists from the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) who deployed to Sierra Leone to work in Public Health England’s (PHE) Diagnostic Laboratory within the Kerry...
The war against Ebola continues in Sierra Leone
...in country: Brigadier Andrew Hughes said: Brigadier Andrew Hughes in Sierra Leone I arrived in Sierra Leone in January and back then, we were seeing in excess of 350 new...