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Plans for a new destroyer to replace Britain’s ageing warships have been scrapped as part of changes to the long-awaited defence investment plan aimed at prioritising drones and modernising the military.

Russia has warned it could take legal action if Britain sells the cargo from the seized shadow fleet tanker Smyrtos, escalating the fallout from the first UK-led interdiction of a Russia-linked oil tanker.

The tanker Forwarder (IMO: 9419448), which is under UK, U.S. EU, Canadian, Swiss, and Ukrainian sanctions, entered the English Channel under the Russian flag and is continuing its course south.

A Russian warship fired warning shots after nearly colliding with a British sailing yacht just 150 meters away in the English Channel, according to the Kremlin.

The captain of a Russian shadow fleet vessel which was intercepted by British troops in the English Channel will appear in court charged with breaching sanctions.

This is the moment British armed forces intercepted a Russian shadow fleet vessel in the Channel during a pre-dawn operation.

The Ministry of Defence has declined to provide figures on the number of Russian shadow fleet vessels that have passed through British waters, been boarded, or detained

The whereabouts of thousands of military veterans who would be called to service if the UK entered a conflict are currently unknown.

A 35-year-old ultramarathon champion from Dumfries has died while attempting to break the record for a race to the most north-westerly point on mainland Britain.

At Camp Viking in Norway, elite British forces prepare for conflict — as European leaders try to refocus American attention on their own hemisphere.

Royal Marines have incapacitated a high-speed drug boat with a single, precise sniper shot in one of the most dramatic counter-narcotics operations the Royal Navy has conducted in the Middle East.

Walter Bigland was only 19 when he landed on Sword Beach for the June 1944 D-Day landings at Normandy and went on to serve for three decades serving the country

Princess Kate has been without a private secretary since 2022 but she has now reportedly appointed an aide with plenty of royal experience - and he looks pretty familiar, too

Today is the 25th birthday of little-known Royal Family member Arthur Chatto, who has a world record to his name and also previously had a very revealing Instagram account

When Bob Brooker's mum Doris died, she left him a heap of old photographs which revealed a secret affair in his family that went back more than a hundred and thirty years.

Johnny Mercer claimed Fred Thomas, who is aiming to unseat him at the general election, had 'served five minutes in uniform' - when in fact he was a Royal Marine for seven years and rose to Captain

Prince Edward has not always been a working royal, and has had to establish himself financially in an independent career, with varying results

King Charles cast his mind back yesterday as he and the Queen watched Kenyan marines doing a training exercise at Mtongwe Naval Base near Mombasa

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak updated MPs on the latest details from the terrorist attack, telling 10 Britons were missing and some of those were feared dead following the carnage unleashed

Royal Marines joined the two allies and 10 other nations for Exercise Talisman Sabre to practise storming sea defences Down Under

Fred Ames, 100, was a beach commando and fought during the Battle of Anzio where 7,000 allies were killed during the Second World War

Pensioner Isobel Porter's reaction to being able to take the plunge again touched leisure centre staff, with her husband saying she "keeps asking when she can go back"

Lee West has shared his memories form a 17-year career as an elite Royal Marines commando including the moment he was nearly taken prisoner by terrorists in Baghdad