Category: Defence

Private Henry Parker, 5th Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment, has finally been laid to rest after he was killed in action during the Battle of the Somme on 26 September 1916, just 3 days short of his 23rd birthday… The...

In a flash of fire and smoke, Type 45 destroyer HMS Diamond has tested her world-beating Sea Viper missile system off the coast of Scotland… Blasting from the warship’s silo, the missile flew four times the speed of...

Blackpool’s Armed Forces Week is back for another action-packed programme of events, culminating in a grand gala dinner… The dinner will be staged at the Norbreck Castle Hotel on the evening of Friday 23rd June with...

Type 45 destroyer HMS Daring has made a triumphant return to Portsmouth after spending nine months at sea protecting some of the world’s most vital shipping lanes in the Middle East… Hundreds of families and friends...

In the hurly burly of the Resettlement process many will have more important things to do than to worry about airfield history or indeed the loss of it… This recent letter to a national newspaper persuaded me, at least, to...