41 h. ago 'Serious nuclear incident' at Faslane Royal Navy base deemed 'Category A' threat

The Ministry of Defence has admitted a 'serious nuclear incident' took place at HM Faslane Royal Navy base - the incident was deemed to be 'Category A'

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45 h. ago Veteran says horrors of war ‘should never be forgotten’ on anniversary of VJ Day

Albert Lamond took part in D-Day in 1944 as an 18-year-old seaman, a year after joining the Royal Navy, and also served in the Pacific in the lead up to VJ Day on August 15, 1945

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45 h. ago Veteran, 100, witnessed official ceremony marking Japan’s surrender

Reg Draper was a stores assistant on Royal Navy battleship HMS Duke of York, which was sailing off the coast of Japan in August 1945 when the country surrendered.

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67 h. ago Royal Navy flexes its military muscles in show of strength to China as HMS Prince of Wales joins fleet of warships from US, Japan and Australia in northern Philippine Sea

The huge display of military might comes as tensions between China and the West continue to flare, as Beijing threatens war against its neighbour Taiwan - which borders the Philippine Sea in the north.

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5 d. ago UK fighter jet forced to make emergency landing in foreign country

One of the Royal Navy's F-35B Lightning II fighter jets has been forced to make an emergency landing in Japan, the second time the advanced aircraft has had to land on foreign soil

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6 d. ago Radioactive water from UK nuclear bomb base leaked into sea, files show

Exclusive: Polluted water was released into loch near Glasgow because Royal Navy failed to maintain 1,500 water pipes, says watchdogRadioactive water from the base that holds the UK’s nuclear bombs was allowed to leak into the sea after old pipes repeatedly burst, official files have revealed.The radioactive material was released into Loch Long, a sea loch near Glasgow in western Scotland, because the Royal Navy failed to properly maintain a network of 1,500 water pipes on the base, a regulator found. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Royal Navy chiefs say lack of 'proper' warships puts UK at risk with no destroyers and only half its frigates available to shadow Putin's armada

EXCLUSIVE: The navy increasingly appears to be relying on smaller patrol ships to shadow Putin's heavily armed warships and submarines instead of more powerful frigates and destroyers.

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7 d. ago U.S. Navy and Royal Navy Unite: ONR Global's London Tech Bridge Fuels Transatlantic Leap In Naval Readiness

U.S. Navy and Royal Navy Unite: ONR Global's London Tech Bridge Fuels Transatlantic Leap In Naval Readiness  DVIDS

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3 w. ago Welsh beach keeps destroying cars but thousands still take the risk

Local farmer Dafydd Davies has been called into action time and time again to recover submerged cars on Traeth y Graig Ddu - even his own wife has been caught out to the tune of £60,000

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4 w. ago Gardeners urged to check their house plants as four pests move in

Be on the watch out for key signs that these four common pests have infected your house plants as they destroy leaves and flowers and risk spreading nasty diseases

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