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Friday, 11 February 2011
The Army started building work on a new residential recovery centre to help injured soldiers today, Friday 11 February 2011....
Friday, 11 February 2011
Her Majesty The Queen has given her formal approval to the appointment of His Royal Highness Prince William as Colonel of the Irish Guards....
Friday, 11 February 2011
A team of Royal Navy explosive experts has recovered a 1954 Mark 9 torpedo off the coast of Beachy Head, Eastbourne, after a fishing boat spotted it f...
Thursday, 10 February 2011
The Secretary of State for Defence, Dr Liam Fox, here explains what the MOD is doing to support our serving personnel and veterans and why rebuilding ...
Thursday, 10 February 2011
An insurgent bomber, caught red-handed laying deadly improvised explosive devices, is facing a life of imprisonment after a British soldier from the 1...
Thursday, 10 February 2011
Defence Estates has announced its future commercial plans for UK military housing from 2013, unveiling a new single contract for the provision of all ...
Thursday, 10 February 2011
The crew of Plymouth-based Royal Naval warship HMS Chatham said goodbye to their ship this week at an official decommissioning ceremony....
Wednesday, 09 February 2011
Royal Navy frigate HMS Iron Duke raced to the aid of a badly injured sailor in the Gulf of Oman after receiving an urgent distress call from a Korean ...
Wednesday, 09 February 2011
A MOD police officer recently returned from a six-month mission to train Afghan National Police (ANP) recruits says she is optimistic about the future...
Wednesday, 09 February 2011
There is widespread media coverage today reporting claims that Prime Minister David Cameron is reneging on his pledge to write into the law of the lan...
Wednesday, 09 February 2011
HMS Manchester has made a final visit to Liverpool, where her crew were met by dignitaries of the city of Manchester, before being cheered through the...
Tuesday, 08 February 2011
The Ministry of Defence and Department for Transport (DfT) announced today that they will not proceed with the preferred bid or the current procuremen...
Tuesday, 08 February 2011
Security and governance have been brought to a previously contested area east of Lashkar Gah, Helmand province, following the first operation in the d...
Tuesday, 08 February 2011
A new portable bridging system procured by Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) is helping British troops on operations to more easily cross obstacles...
Tuesday, 08 February 2011
Work is underway to build a new road which will form an important transport link for locals in an area of Helmand province where security is provided ...
Tuesday, 08 February 2011
As the largest provider of apprenticeships in the public sector the Ministry of Defence is at the forefront of National Apprenticeship Week....
Monday, 07 February 2011
Two Royal Navy warships are continuing their operations in the Arabian Sea and Horn of Africa to deter piracy and build relations with nations in thei...
Monday, 07 February 2011
A Royal Navy helicopter squadron is taking part in NATO's largest Mediterranean anti-submarine exercise, Proud Manta, for the first time....
Monday, 07 February 2011
Lieutenant Jonny Mortimer-Hendry from D Company, 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment, on his first tour of Afghanistan, is leading his team in northe...
Monday, 07 February 2011
A purpose-built workshop for the in-theatre maintenance and repair of UK military vehicles was recently opened in Camp Bastion, southern Afghanistan, ...
Friday, 04 February 2011
The RAF Regiment has conducted its first patrols with members of the Afghan National Army (ANA) and the Kandahar Air Wing (KAW)....
Friday, 04 February 2011
A Royal Navy vessel on anti-piracy patrol in the Gulf of Aden has reinforced ties with the Pakistan Navy after a mid-ocean encounter with a familiar f...
Friday, 04 February 2011
A heroic soldier awarded the George Medal for bravery in Afghanistan protecting colleagues from Taliban IEDs, which resulted in him being blinded, is ...
Friday, 04 February 2011
A group of Afghan children have helped British troops repair a collapsed bridge and get the southern Nahr-e Saraj area of Helmand moving again....
Friday, 04 February 2011
2010 saw the ARRC move hundreds of its people from Germany to the UK. This year they are deploying to Afghanistan. Report by Leigh Hamilton....
Thursday, 03 February 2011
Having suppressed insurgent activity in an Afghan village with frequent joint patrols, British and Afghan troops are now handing out kite kits to loca...
Thursday, 03 February 2011
A recent joint operation by British and Afghan forces has helped clear two villages of insurgent activity in the Nad 'Ali region of Helmand province, ...
Thursday, 03 February 2011
The musician sister of a British paratrooper who lost his life in Afghanistan in 2008 recently made a pilgrimage to her brother's Helmand memorial dur...
Thursday, 03 February 2011
British Defence Secretary Dr Liam Fox has welcomed the announcement that the New Zealand Special Air Service (SAS) deployment to Kabul, Afghanistan, w...
Thursday, 03 February 2011
The RAF's 99 Squadron has recently flown one of its C-17 Globemaster aircraft to Colombia to deliver aid to the flood victims there....
Department for Work and Pensions Views sought to transform benefit paid to carers
HM Treasury Joint statement from member countries of the Multilateral Defence Mechanism
Department for Education Government to cut costs for parents ahead of new school year
UK Health Security Agency UKHSA updates heat health alerts across England
UK Health Security Agency UKHSA updates heat health alerts across England