All news on the topic: British Army

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Former soldier killed in Iraq when ISIS bomb he was trying to defuse exploded
Stuart Coburn was working as a contractor for an international mine clearance company in Ramadi, Iraq when he died in 2016 while attempting to neutralise the improvised explosive device inside a skip
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Priscilla Presley
Actress Priscilla was married to Elvis Presley in 1967 and the couple shared one daughter, Lisa Marie
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Troop and tank cuts going ahead despite defence spending boost, signals minister
Baroness JoJo Penn insisted: "The vision for the future of our defence that we set out in the original Integrated Review remains the vision for defence that we have set out in this country"
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Terry Butcher plants tree in memory of his soldier son and to honour late Queen
The England football icon spoke of his pride at joining an initiative to plant one million trees to commemorate the life and service of Elizabeth II
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D-Day hero who lied about his age to sign up for Army duty is laid to rest
Ernie Sedgwick was one of the last surviving British veterans of WWII when he died aged 101 last month
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UK defence budget 'insufficient' as 'world totters towards World War Three'
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace wanted an £11bn boost to take account of the war in Ukraine and the rising threat posed by China, but has been forced to make do with far less
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Family feels 'left in the dark' after soldier, 19, found dead in barracks
Ebrima Nyabally, 19, was found dead in his room at the barracks in Tidworth, Wiltshire, at 9pm on February 25. His family were left devastated and are trying to find more information about his death
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Inside UK's abandoned 'ghost' village completely frozen in time
A forlorn abandoned housing estate sits on the edge of bustling Edinburgh, and it should be an ideal location - but more than 30 houses are empty, leaving it feeling like a ghost town
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Ex-Navy chief calls on ministers to reverse Army cuts and build more warships
Lord West, who was First Sea Lord from 2002 to 2006, said the war raging in Ukraine should force ministers to ditch troop cuts.
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UK army regiment loses 22 veterans to 'wicked problem' in just 12 years
Veteran Baz Melia, a retired British Army Colonel, has called for more to be done to stop UK soldiers committing suicide after leaving the military after 22 have killed themselves in his army regiment
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Tenth of the Army 'on the sick' - but many would still be sent to war anyway
Armed Forces Minister James Heappey said some of those on the soldier sick list were waiting for appointments with a dentist - and would be sent into battle "if the balloon went up"
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Triathlete Kat Matthews ventures into unknown after horrifying training crash
Brit Kat Matthews was 10 days out from competing at the Ironman World Championships last year when she collided with a car while riding her bike on a training ride
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Meet the five Brit firefighters skiing to the South Pole to inspire women
From ice diving to heaving sledges over snow, the Antarctic Fire Angels confront gender stereotyping as they prepare for a gruelling, 45-day trek
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Prince Harry admits not all soldiers 'necessarily' agreed with Afghanistan war
Prince Harry has opened up about his time as a soldier in Afghanistan, admitting that there were some troops who didn't 'necessarily agree or disagree' with the conflict
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Tributes paid to jockey and Cheltenham winner who died aged 44
Ben Moore won the 2017 Pertemps Champions Willberry Charity Race at Cheltenham. The former conditional jockey started his career with 15-time champion trainer Martin Pipe
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Amazing story of WWII heroines who dodged Nazi bullets & heard true war horrors
To celebrate International Women’s Day, both Mildred, now 99, and Marie, 96, share their memories of cutting their education short at teenagers to help defeat the Nazis
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Soldiers fired for fighting can rejoin Army in move that 'smacks of desperation'
Soldiers fired for theft and failing drugs tests can also rejoin the British Army, which is currently around 3,000 troops understrength, with latest figures showing more troops are leaving the Armed Forces than joining
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War hero badly hurt in Afghanistan climbing Everest - so he can propose again
Veteran Martyn Compton, who's friends with Prince Harry, suffered severe burns to 75% of his body in a Taliban attack and will climb Everest to propose to his wife on their 15th anniversary
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Brit captured in Ukraine shares horror of being electrocuted in Russia torture
Shaun Pinner was captured during the fall of Mariupol and sentenced to death by local Russian-backed forces who tortured him including shocking him with a cattle prod after they found out he was a West Ham supporter
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Tory minister boast he has more staff than rival in petty row over defence
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace boasted he has 224,000 staff while Veterans Minister Johnny Mercer has an office with just 12 people as they clashed over money for the Armed Forces
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Prince Harry slammed by Ben Wallace for 'boasting' over his Taliban killings
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has criticised Prince Harry for "boasting" about his kill count in Afghanistan in his memoir Spare and claimed he had let down his former Army colleagues
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Face-to-face with Vlad's feared killers who say: 'We are at war with the UK'
The Mirror's Defence Editor Chris Hughes meets two of Vladimir Putin's feared Wagner Group mercenary fighters held in Ukraine in a World-first exclusive interview
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'Rising threat from right-wing terrorists radicalised in their bedrooms' warning
Sir Julian Lewis, who chairs Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee, issued the warning as he addressed the Royal United Services Institute
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Former soldier's flash of inspiration that led to incredible 12,000-mile journey
Former soldier Christian Lewis was struggling with depression and facing homelessness when he had a flash of inspiration that led him on a 12,000-mile journey on foot
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Relative of worst police rapist 'horrified' by ' malicious lies' told at trial
The relative, who wishes to remain anonymous, called Carrick a 'spoilt brat' and 'controlling, manipulative, narcissistic' after he committed a string of sex offences while a serving police officer