46 h. ago British soldier arrested in Kenya over alleged rape near training base

A British soldier has been accused of raping a woman in Kenya - the Ministry of Defence is cooperating with a Kenyan investigation into the incident.

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46 h. ago British soldier 'arrested in Kenya over alleged rape' near army barracks linked to murder of woman in 2012

Police have questioned the serviceman over the alleged incident, which is said to have taken place after a bar trip last month

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1 week ago Rangers reveal training camp base and friendlies amid closing stages of managerial hunt

Ibrox side to use England base as part of preparations for 2025/26 campaign

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2 w. ago ‘Football is not complicated’: Andoni Iraola on Bournemouth, birdsong and playing better

The travel-loving manager is staying put for now on the south coast after a record-breaking season – ‘I’m going to enjoy the years ahead of me’At Bournemouth’s uber-cool Canford Magna training base, a 57-acre site on a former golf course, Andoni Iraola is surrounded by bells and whistles. There is a hydrotherapy pool and an altitude chamber. “For me, those are like the extras,” says a manager used to getting his hands dirty from his days at AEK Larnaca in Cyprus and Mirandés in northern Spain.“I come from clubs where everybody has to do their job – and something else. I’ve needed to cut videos, make things, set up; we didn’t have goals with wheels so four of us would move them.” At Rayo Vallecano, even after promotion to La Liga, he explains how they happily made do with “training on one pitch and a third”. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago UFO smashes into US military plane in bizarre incident near Air Force training range

A UFO hit a US military jet in a bizarre incident near an Arizona Air Force training range. - the base has seen multiple sightings of mysterious objects over the years

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3 w. ago Lyon Women change name and get training base ‘better than most men’s centres’

Groupama Stadium to be team’s regular homeClub won fourth consecutive league title last weekThe French champions Olympique Lyonnais Féminin have been renamed OL Lyonnes, as part of a series of announcements made by their owner, Michele Kang.The American businesswoman has also revealed the team will make the Groupama Stadium – home of the Lyon men’s team – their regular home stadium. Kang said other mid-sized stadium alternatives, including a local rugby stadium, were explored before they reached the conclusion that the stadium that hosted the 2019 Women’s World Cup final is the best venue for them. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Royal Navy training HQ on 'lockdown' over 'revenge porn': Recruits are told to 'hand in their phones' as top brass tries to stop 'sex tape going viral'

Hundreds of novices at training base HMS Raleigh were placed in a 'communication blackout' after intimate photographs were shared of a young female recruit without her consent.

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3 w. ago 2 crew members missing after a military training plane crashes in central Japan

A Japanese air force training plane has crashed minutes after taking off from a base in central Japan

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