Senior officer at nuclear police force faces the sack after being accused of wearing fake Iraq and Afghanistan war medals to awards ceremony Supt Glenn McAleavey accused of wearing fake medals to awards ceremony He could be sacked from his position at the Civil Nuclear Constabulary McAleavey served in Royal Navy for 4 years before becoming … Read more
Serbia sends the army to its border with Croatia to ‘secure’ three camps holding 1,500 migrants trying to reach the EU amid claims of ‘harassment’ against local people Serbian Defence Ministry deployed army to a town near the border with Croatia Told to ‘secure’ three migrant camps housing some 1,500 people near Sid President Vucic … Read more
Checking in… Rory Stewart: The former mayoral candidate and Conservative minister talks about nearly being arrested in Nepal and eating snake in China By Tamara Hinson For The Daily Mail Published: 09:48 BST, 9 May 2020 | Updated: 11:59 BST, 9 May 2020 Ex-Conservative minister Rory Stewart This week it’s wobbly screen time for former … Read more
Ex-Army generals have urged the Chancellor to reward frontline NHS workers with cash bonuses as a thank you for risking their lives in the war against Covid-19. General Lord Richard Dannatt and ex-chief of the Defence Staff General Lord David Richards backed calls for nurses, doctors and care workers to be granted a tax-free allowance, … Read more
Lance Corporal Matthew Croucher was on a mission to investigate a Taliban compound near Sangin in Afghanistan in 2008 when he accidentally triggered a booby-trapped grenade. He and his men were heading back to base under cover of darkness when he stumbled into a four-metre tripwire linked to the explosive. Instead of running for cover, the … Read more
The acclaimed Fleet Street photographer John Downing MBE, who survived interrogation by Idi Amin’s special forces and documented war zones around the world, has died aged 79. Downing visited more than 100 countries including Afghanistan, Bosnia, Rwanda and Uganda during a distinguished career, bringing harrowing images of conflict to newspaper front pages in the UK. … Read more
Soldiers helping to build the Nightingale hospital in London last night compared the coronavirus crisis to the Battle of the Somme. Colonel Ashleigh Boreham, who has carried out two tours of Iraq and one of Afghanistan, said it was the biggest mission of his career. As commanding officer of 256 City of London Field Hospital, … Read more
The Taliban have pledged their readiness to cooperate with healthcare workers instead of killing them, as fear of a coronavirus epidemic spreads in Afghanistan. Whatever reservations the militants previously held over eradicating the crippling disease, they have now clearly grasped the dangers posed by the pandemic sweeping the rest of the world. In the past … Read more
Finland has been named the happiest country in the world for the third year in a row by the World Happiness Report – and Afghanistan ranked the bleakest. The annual United Nations World Happiness Report ranks over 150 countries by how happy their citizens perceive themselves to be, according to their evaluations of their own … Read more
Prince Harry wears medal he earned in Afghanistan alongside military honours at the Royal Albert Hall Prince Harry appeared in his capacity as Captain General of the Royal Marines The Duke of Sussex wore a scarlet mess dress uniform with medals on his lapel His medals were awarded to him after completing two tours of … Read more