5 d. ago World agrees pandemic accord for tackling outbreaks of disease

Hailed as ‘a victory for public health,’ the agreement aims to build on the lessons of Covid-19 and protect the globe from pathogenic threatsA pandemic agreement governing how the world should work together to tackle future disease outbreaks has been adopted by global leaders after three years of negotiation.Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), said it was “a victory for public health, science and multilateral action”. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Top special forces general Gwyn Jenkins named head of the Royal Navy

The Royal Marine replaces Admiral Sir Benjamin Key as First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff.

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1 week ago Top special forces general Gwyn Jenkins named as head of the Royal Navy

The Royal Marine replaces Admiral Sir Benjamin Key as First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff.

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1 week ago Former Royal Marine and wife found dead in suspected 'murder

An inquest was opened today into the deaths of retired commando John Perkins, 66, and his 67-year-old wife Kathryn, from Exmouth, Devon.

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1 week ago Former Royal Marine completes ‘world’s longest triathlon’ at Everest summit

Mitch Hutchcraft set off from Dover last September and reached the summit of Mount Everest on Sunday.

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1 week ago Former Royal Marine from 'the flattest part of the UK' completes the world's longest triathlon and scales Mount Everest

Mitch Hutchcraft, 31, swam the Channel and cycled 12,000km from France to India where he then ran Kathmandu, all before taking on the tallest mountain on Earth while raising money for charity.

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2 w. ago Royal Marines training could be watered down to let more women into the Navy following 'political pressure' over diversity targets

There are growing fears that elements of the Royal Navy's elite commando training, which keeps standards set in the Second World War, are being made easier to let women pass.

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2 w. ago I travelled the length and breadth of Luxembourg by bus – and it didn’t cost me a penny

With free public transport for all – including tourists - exploring the vineyards, mysterious canyons and lush forests of the Grand Duchy couldn’t be easierI am not sure what surprises me most when I get off the train at Luxembourg’s main station – the sheer friendliness of locals who seem to greet everyone as they pass by with a cheery Moien (hello), or the fact that from this point I will not be paying a penny to travel the length and breadth of the Grand Duchy.Five years ago, Luxembourg became the first country in the world to actively tackle its carbon footprint by making all public transport free for everyone, including tourists. So I have come to see how it works in practice, aiming to travel to the country’s little known vineyards hugging the slopes along the Moselle River and then trek through the mysterious canyons and forests of the Mullerthal region. Continue reading...

Transport

2 w. ago Airdrie and Coatbridge Sea Cadets look to sail into bright future with even more members

Under stewardship of commanding officer John Hamilton, organisation aims to get "back to the strength it was in many years ago" with Junior Sea Cadet, Senior Sea Cadet and Royal Marines Cadet divisions.

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3 w. ago Ukrainian troops to join London procession to celebrate VE Day anniversary

The Ukrainian armed forces will join around 1,000 UK armed forces personnel, including soldiers on horseback and seven military bands.

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3 w. ago Nature nurture: the Devon estate where rewilding and mental health go hand in hand

A restoration project at Sharpham near Totnes aims to tackle the loss of the natural world while helping people build mental resilienceTwo landscapes separated by a wide sweep of river tell a story of change. On one side is traditional farmland, close-cropped grazing, uniform grasses, neatly tended hedges and a sparsity of trees, a farmscape ubiquitous across England. On the riverbank opposite, rougher, less uniform grasses grow unevenly between trees, thistle and brambles, in a chaos of natural disorder swaying in the breeze towards the reedbeds below.The land on the Sharpham estate side of the River Dart used to be a mirror of the traditional farmscape on the opposite bank. It hosted a non-organic dairy farm and a vineyard, within a tightly controlled 18th-century heritage landscape of deforested parkland. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Royal Marine says he was arrested and treated like a terrorist after complaining that women on the front line will make unit 'unrecognisable, weak and compromised'

In a highly unusual move the man - who MailOnline understands is serving in 43 Commando protecting Britain's nuclear submarines in Scotland - took to social media to air his concerns.

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3 w. ago Former Royal Marine tackling world’s longest triathlon from UK to Everest’s peak

Mitch Hutchcraft set off from Dover in September and is now preparing for his climb to the summit of Everest.

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