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  • First Service Complaints Ombudsman to be created

    The independent commissioner whose role it is to ensure armed forces complaints are fairly and properly dealt with is to receive new powers.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Royal Navy warship welcomed home from operations

    Royal Navy warship HMS Montrose was given a rapturous welcome when she returned home to Plymouth yesterday, 12 March.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • £20 million contract for new Royal Navy ships

    The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has signed a £20 million contract to buy parts for the Royal Navy's 3 new offshore patrol vessels (OPVs).

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Royal Air Force reserves return to Wales

    The Royal Air Force is reforming an auxiliary squadron in Wales, 57 years after its disbandment.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Storms unearth 19th century remains on MOD island

    Storms and flooding have revealed human remains thought to date from the 19th century on a disused MOD island in Portsmouth Harbour.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • UK and Australian Foreign and Defence Ministers meeting

    Foreign and Defence ministers of the UK and Australia meet in London this week for the annual Australia-UK Ministerial (AUKMIN) meeting.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Women in the Forces

    In celebration of International Women’s Day on 8 March, meet a female reservist who has seen service in Afghanistan.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Royal Marines kick-start charity abseil

    Celebrities, fundraisers and Royal Marines have been taking part in an exhilarating abseil down the BT Tower.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • MOD announces preferred private sector bidder to join DIO

    MOD is a step closer to bringing in a strategic business partner to help improve the running of the 230,000-hectare defence estate.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Apprenticeship opportunities at leading defence firm

    Armed Forces Minister Mark Francois has learned about the opportunities available to apprentices at defence equipment company MBDA.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Reserves prepare for deployment with regulars

    Army reservists from the London Regiment are to take part in the UN peacekeeping mission in Cyprus with their paired regular counterparts.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Home Front legacy project

    Armed forces volunteers have been delving deeper into the recently discovered remains of a First World War practice battlefield.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Sapper Adam Moralee has died in Afghanistan

    It is with great sadness that the Ministry of Defence must confirm the death of Sapper Adam Moralee, from 32 Engineer Regiment, on Wednesday 5 March in Camp Bastion.

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  • Nuclear submarines

    The nuclear reactor in HMS Vanguard is to be refuelled, the Defence Secretary has announced.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Nuclear submarines

    Speech by Philip Hammond, Secretary of State for Defence.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Sporting event for wounded personnel

    Prince Harry has launched a new international sporting event called the Invictus Games.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Army cleared to fly next-generation eye-in-the-sky

    Watchkeeper, the Army's next-generation unmanned aerial system, has been cleared to begin military flight training with the Royal Artillery.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Important Helmand bridge is repaired

    Afghan engineers have repaired an important bridge on the Helmand River in Afghanistan.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Welsh Cavalry treated to royal visit

    The Prince of Wales has visited soldiers from 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards on the Castlemartin ranges in Pembrokeshire.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • HMS Daring welcomed home by Philippines officials

    HMS Daring was welcomed home by Philippines officials after a deployment which included humanitarian relief in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government