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Exclusive: Nearly 50 GMB members to stop work at Ayrshire site that assembles Storm Shadow and Brimstone missilesWorkers at a munitions plant that supplies Ukraine with missiles are going on strike for two weeks in an escalating dispute over pay and bo…
Cabinet Office assessment also upgrades likelihood of ‘catastrophic’ pandemic hitting the countryDisruption to energy supplies after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and another pandemic, are two of the most significant risks to the UK shown in an updated…
Officials sent ‘small number’ of emails intended for Pentagon to Mali because of typing errorThe Ministry of Defence has launched an investigation after officials unwittingly sent emails containing classified information to a close Russian ally because…
Outgoing defence secretary due to unveil defence strategy paper with no new money for armed forcesBen Wallace has said he would be prepared to speak out from the backbenches if Rishi Sunak does not stick to his promise to increase military spending to …
Study claims taxpayer is subsidising up to 90% of weapons companies’ research and development budgetsThe UK government is wasting billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money on “corporate welfare” for arms manufacturers that is siphoned into massive shareho…
MoD acknowledged at preliminary hearing that ‘UK special forces’ were present in AfghanistanA partial admission by the defence secretary that UK special forces were present in Afghanistan risks discrediting a public inquiry investigating allegations of…
Lawyers for bereaved families allege British soldiers carried out policy of terminating all fighting-age menEighty Afghans may have been victim of summary killings by three separate British SAS units operating in the country between 2010 and 2013, lawy…
Gen Sir Patrick Sanders is said to have told defence secretary that the army cannot take more reductionsThe head of the British army could resign, allies say, amid a fierce row over further proposed cuts to land forces in the run-up to a special defenc…
Ministers launch inquiry into use of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC)Ministers have launched a UK government-wide inquiry into the use of crumbling concrete in public buildings following fears that nurseries, offices, shops and leisure fac…
A CHINESE scavenger ship has been raided by authorities after The Sun uncovered its desecration of a British WW2 war grave.
Malaysia’s coast guard said on Tuesday they were questioning the crew of the vessel detained on suspicion of looting tw…