All news on the topic: Ministry of Defence

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Tory MP hints RAF could help solve Rwanda plane crisis but says 'money talks'
Brendan Clarke-Smith said ministers can 'always rely' on the RAF amid reports commercial airlines are 'running a mile' from the Rwanda deportation scheme
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Rastafarian soldier refused entry to barracks wins landmark case against army
Dwight Pile-Gray saw his 16-year British Army career come to an end following a row at Wellington Barracks in which he was accused of "playing the race card" after he was refused entry
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'All I want for Christmas is to get my country back from shameless grifters'
Britain's infested by shameless liars on the take, says Fleet Street Fox. Please Santa, can we have a general election?
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Rishi Sunak stepped in to stop RAF helicopter deal he uses being scrapped
The Ministry of Defence had been set to scrap a contract for two helicopters in order to save cash, but it has emerged Rishi Sunak intervened to stop this happening
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Inside creepy abandoned military hospital complete with discarded MRI machine
Urban explorer Becca Morgan, 23, visited the abandoned Royal Naval Hospital in Gosport, Hampshire, UK, which opened in 1753 but closed its doors for good in 2009
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Nuked blood: Rishi Sunak "made to look an idiot" by his officials
No10 officials have told nuclear veterans their medical records are not missing, but won't let the PM meet them to discuss it
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MoD fined over email blunder risking lives of interpreters fleeing Afghanistan
The Ministry of Defence has been given a fine of £350,000 for a data breach in which it revealed the personal details of 265 people who were fleeing the Talibans in Afghanistan
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Armed police raid 'SAS drugs ring' at remote farm as 'soldier's wife arrested'
Both military and civilian police raided a remote farm in Hertfordshire where a suspicious substance was found as two SAS members as well as a soldier's wife were reportedly arrested
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Naval support ships' readiness to sail slashed during 10 years of Tory rule
The readiness of naval support ships during 10 years of Tory rule has come under the microscope after parliamentary questions from Labour amid warnings about availability
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Tory James Cleverly's own flight to Rwanda delayed after deportations hold up
Home Secretary James Cleverly's Government flight to Rwanda was delayed last night, which came after months of Tory moans about deportation flights to Rwanda being delayed by judges
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Dad of Brit soldier killed in Kenya attack crushed after losing his 'adored' son
Major Kevin McCool, 32, from Northern Ireland, was hailed as being widely respected, "adored" and "loved" by his fellow officers and soldiers after he was gunned down by two men in Kenya
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Couple's garden ornament they would 'hit with trowel' turns out to be live bomb
Mr and Mrs Edwards loved the red-painted bomb which decorated the front of their house. But after learning it was still active, they were told their entire street may need to be evacuated…
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Veterans win official review of nuked blood 'cover-up'
More than 100 documents about blood and urine tests of troops which the MoD previously denied existed will be reviewed, Parliament has been told
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Veteran whose daughter, 2, vanished 42 years ago hands back medals in outrage
Richard Lee expressed his 'disgust' over the force's handling of Katrice Lee's disappearance at a supermarket in Germany in 1981 and said his daughter 'means everything' to him
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PROOF: MoD official rewrote the science on nuke veteran cancers
Documents show civil servants demanding rewrites of a scientific analysis, over fears it would give nuclear veterans "a bonanza"
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How WhiteBIT and Volodymyr Nosov turned Ukraine’s “digital future” into a crypto fraud playground for laundering Russian money
’Wall Street ’hustlers’ – what a surprise’, says the heroine of the movie ’Dump Money’, released in September 2023, which tells the true story of small investors’ struggle with the big players on the American stock market.
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Tory minister tells veterans "there is no cover-up" of missing medical records
Veterans Minister Johnny Mercer faced accusations of "dereliction of duty" for not helping nuclear survivors find their missing medical records, but accused others of "politicisation"
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Eco-tycoon Dale Vince backs nuke vets and tells Rishi Sunak 'now it's your turn'
Ecotricity founder Dale Vince is in a fight to make Britain fairer - and says it starts with the nuclear test veterans' search for their missing medical records
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Trainee officer faces court martial for alleged rape at Sandhurst academy
Trainee officer's court martial for alleged rape on the grounds of the elite military school Sandhurst follows revelations of another top cadet facing trial for sexual assault
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Rishi Sunak u-turn on plans to cut taxpayer spending on 'helicopter addiction'
Spending was due to be cut from September with the Government promising not to renew a £40million contract which funded the flights - but we can reveal the deal has been extended
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Senior female staff at MoD report sexual assault and abuse in leaked letter
The letter from senior female staff at the Ministry of Defence describes a 'toxic' work culture where women are exposed to sexual harassment and 'intrusive staring'
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All Royal Navy attack submarines in port at same time was 'embarrassing'
Conservative backbencher Mark Francois rounded on the head of the Royal Navy after it emerged all six Royal Navy attack submarines were in port at the same time rather than hunting Russians
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Putin 'faked own death in bid to test his popularity in Russia', claims Ukraine
Ukraine military intelligence spokesman Andrii Yusov says the reports of Vladimir Putin's death were started by Moscow in a bid to tighten domestic control amid the ongoing war
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Growing fears Tories will axe rusting British warship linked to Parliament
Uncertainty surrounds the future of the Type 23 frigate HMS Westminster as she languishes in a basin at Devonport naval base in Plymouth with no guarantees she will sail again
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MoD admits it may hold almost 5,000 nuked blood files
The MoD has finally admitted it may hold almost 5,000 individual files on blood tests taken during nuclear weapons trials, but says it is too expensive to check them