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Defence in the Media: Thursday 31 May 2018

Posted by: MOD News Team, Posted on: 31 May 2018 - Categories: Defence in the media
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Today’s papers include reports on Armed Forces accommodation and nuclear test veterans.

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Defence in the Media: 15 April 2017

Posted by: MOD News Team, Posted on: 15 April 2017 - Categories: Defence in the media, Equipment, Nuclear, Personnel, Royal Navy
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Defence news today includes Royal Navy frigate HMS Sutherland escorting two Russian warships near the UK coastline, and news that £22.7m of LIBOR funding has been awarded to support older veterans.

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Defence in the media: 19th February 2017

Posted by: MOD News Team, Posted on: 19 February 2017 - Categories: NATO, Royal Navy
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...Sunday Telegraph and the Observer write that the US vice-president Mike Pence has stated America’s “unwavering” support of NATO, but that members should meet their pledge to spend more on...

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Defence in the Media: 19 October 2016

Posted by: MOD News Team, Posted on: 19 October 2016 - Categories: Defence in the media
“As a responsible nuclear operator, the MOD has a safe, secure and environmentally sound programme to dismantle submarines when they come to the end of their life, and continues to invest in the maintenance of the skills and facilities necessary.”

The battle for Mosul continues to lead defence-related news this morning.

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Defence Minister Philip Dunne on dismantling decommissioned submarines

Posted by: Philip Dunne, Posted on: 7 July 2016 - Categories: Ministerial comment

...to store the Intermediate Level radioactive Waste (ILW) from our decommissioned nuclear-powered submarines. From a shortlist of five sites, I am pleased to announce that Capenhurst Nuclear Services in Capenhurst,...

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Defence in the media: 27 September 2015

Posted by: MOD News Team, Posted on: 27 September 2015 - Categories: Defence in the media

...who won the UK dog trials this summer. Nuclear submarine The Mail on Sunday speculates that a UK nuclear submarine has been caught on camera on Google Earth after it...

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Defence Minister Philip Dunne talks about the shut down of the Vulcan Naval test reactor

Posted by: Philip Dunne and MOD News Team, Posted on: 22 July 2015 - Categories: Ministerial comment

...shut down. New technology is available and advances in other types of modelling and computational codes mean it is not necessary to set up future full-scale prototypes at this time...

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Defence in the media: 15 July 2015

Posted by: MOD News Team, Posted on: 15 July 2015 - Categories: Defence in the media

...deaths of three SAS “hopefuls” who succumbed to heat exhaustion during a march on the Brecon Beacons has outlined a catalogue of “very serious mistakes”. The papers say that the...

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