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Monday, 24 May 2010
The project aims to recycle 85% of the materials from the old southern taxiway for use on the new surface, with the surplus to be used for other…...
Saturday, 22 May 2010
English football star David Beckham arrived at Camp Bastion, the main British base in Afghanistan, last night for a goodwill visit to meet British and...
Saturday, 22 May 2010
The Secretaries of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Defence, and International Development are today visiting Afghanistan....
Friday, 21 May 2010
Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers showed their increasing capability to operate independently when 2-3-215 Kandak recently planned and executed two ...
Friday, 21 May 2010
British military personnel in Afghanistan have started wearing uniforms bearing the first new camouflage design in over 40 years....
Friday, 21 May 2010
Changes to the command and control of ISAF forces in southern Afghanistan, that will see the current Regional Command (South) split in two to better r...
Thursday, 20 May 2010
A group of six servicemen from the Battle Back scheme have spent a week in Gibraltar honing their skills at the Army Swimming Team's training camp....
Thursday, 20 May 2010
As an Afghan Media Officer for Task Force Helmand, Army Captain Niall Taylor helps Afghan journalists tell Afghan people about the work of British and...
Thursday, 20 May 2010
A number of Royal Navy vessels are currently deployed to the eastern seaboard of the USA as part of the AURIGA multinational Naval Task Group....
Thursday, 20 May 2010
Royal Marines of 40 Commando and their Afghan Army colleagues have stormed an insurgent compound in Helmand, seizing 40kg of homemade explosives and e...
Wednesday, 19 May 2010
Defence Estates (DE) has completed two significant projects to improve the living accommodation for British soldiers based in Germany....
Wednesday, 19 May 2010
Cadets marched on the deck of HMS Trincomalee, based in Hartlepool, in celebration of one of the oldest and most successful voluntary youth …...
Wednesday, 19 May 2010
A Royal Navy diver who battled a major flood for more than 45 minutes in the submerged and darkened engine room of HMS Endurance has received a top ho...
Wednesday, 19 May 2010
Working as some of the myriad 'backroom' specialists that allow Marines operating out of Forward Operating Base Jackson in Sangin, Afghanistan, to get...
Wednesday, 19 May 2010
The RAF's Reaper programme has achieved the milestone of providing more than 10,000 hours of armed overwatch in support of UK and coalition forces in ...
Wednesday, 19 May 2010
The UK’s largest military base and centre of operations in Afghanistan, Camp Bastion, has doubled in size in the last year. See Related News…...
Tuesday, 18 May 2010
Camp Bastion, the lynchpin of British, and increasingly American, operations in Helmand, is a desert metropolis, complete with airport, that is expand...
Tuesday, 18 May 2010
Royal Navy Type 22 frigate HMS Chatham, currently deployed as NATO's counter-piracy flagship, has destroyed two boats after intercepting a group of su...
Tuesday, 18 May 2010
ISAF and Afghan leaders have ended two days of discussions on improving counter-insurgency operations and preventing civilian casualties by cataloguin...
Tuesday, 18 May 2010
The fire broke out in a storage yard on the base at 1800hrs local time on Sunday 16 May 2010. Within half-an-hour the flames were visible from…...
Tuesday, 18 May 2010
The fourth annual Armed Forces Sikh Conference, which took place at the Armed Forces Chaplaincy Centre at Amport House near Andover, has been celebrat...
Monday, 17 May 2010
Changing the perceptions of the Afghan people about the coalition, their own government and the Taliban will be key to success in that nation, the Com...
Monday, 17 May 2010
Sailors past and present of Royal Navy warships bearing the name HMS Gloucester attended a memorial service last week to remember the loss of the nint...
Monday, 17 May 2010
New Defence Secretary Dr Liam Fox has spoken about the national security reasons for the UK military being in Afghanistan and praised the bravery and ...
Monday, 17 May 2010
One British Army platoon, based in the Sangin valley, has earned itself high praise after finding, and eliminating, numerous improvised explosive devi...
Monday, 17 May 2010
Defence Estates (DE) has completed a project to provide new messing facilities for both senior non-commissioned officers and junior ranks personnel at...
Monday, 17 May 2010
This year’s event will take place on Saturday 26 June and is an opportunity for the nation to show its support for all those in the Armed Forces…...
Friday, 14 May 2010
Gerald Howarth Mr Howarth was born in September 1947. He was educated at Haileybury and ISC Junior School, Windsor, and Bloxham School, Banbury…...
Friday, 14 May 2010
Liberal Democrat MP Nick Harvey has been confirmed as the new Minister of State for the Armed Forces....
Friday, 14 May 2010
Two British Army doctors are attempting to set a new world record for rowing around Great Britain after setting off from Lymington Yacht Haven in Hamp...
Food Standards Agency Welsh Food Advisory Committee (WFAC) themed meeting on NFCU
Legal Aid Agency New guidance published on expert witness costs in criminal cases
Maritime and Coastguard Agency Strategy centre stage at this year’s REG Conference
Competition and Markets Authority CMA opens probe into childcare sector
Central Arbitration Committee How to submit applications and complaints to the CAC
Department for Work and Pensions Welfare reforms saving taxpayer £1 billion come into force
Groceries Code Adjudicator GCA Annual Conference 2026
UK Atomic Energy Authority CFS named first international partner in UKAEA's LIBRTI programme