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Fears that UK military bases may be leaking toxic ‘forever chemicals’ into drinking water

Bases in Norfolk, Devon and Hampshire face MoD investigation over possible leaching of dangerous PFAS into environment

The Guardian - UK

Yvette Cooper facing fresh pressure to close ‘prison-like’ Wethersfield asylum camp

Exclusive: The home secretary is under fresh pressure to close a ‘prison-like’ camp housing asylum seekers

The Independent UK

Peggy Woolley to feature in Archers prequel for VE Day 80th anniversary

June Spencer, who played Peggy for more than 70 years, died last year aged 105.

Evening Standard

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Vandalised Paddington Bear statue returns to town after being repaired

The Paddington Bear statue returned to Newbury, Berkshire, after it was damaged by two Royal Air Force engineers who stole it after a night out.

The Independent UK

Labour stonewall MPs over UK-made weapons in Israel's renewed Gaza bombing

THE Labour Government has refused to say if UK-made parts for F-35 fighter jets have been used in the Israeli bombing of Gaza since March 18, which…

The National (Scotland)

Starmer vows there will be ‘no Russian influence’ on Red Arrows

The aerobatic display team’s ageing Hawk jets will not be replaced with a Russian design, Sir Keir Starmer indicated.

Evening Standard

RAF lifts ‘60-year ban’ on popular treat after tests find it won’t explode in cockpit

The Tunnock’s tea cake was said to be banned from RAF flights in 1965 after a mid-flight chocolate explosion

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Tunnock’s Tea Cakes pass RAF fit-to-fly test after 60-year ban for 'exploding'

TUNNOCK'S Tea Cakes have been deemed fit to fly by the RAF after a 60-year ban ...

The National (Scotland)

Father-of-five told he has months left to live - and his job could be to blame

The 53-year-old veteran was diagnosed with stage four brain cancer and initially given just months to live

The Independent UK

King tells of his flying days as he unveils plane for humanitarian airline

The Cessna aircraft will ferry everything from critically ill patients to coffee bean harvests across Papua New Guinea.

The Independent UK

Man who drove wrong way on M6 would have been charged over four deaths – inquest

RAF pilot Richard Woods, 40, killed a family in a head-on collision near Tebay, Cumbria, last October.

Evening Standard

RAF jets scrambled to civilian aircraft off Scottish coast over mid-air alert

RAF Lossiemouth jets were launched yesterday after a civilian aircraft failed to respond to air traffic control (ATC) ...

The National (Scotland)

UK Government won't release spy plane footage from day Israel killed aid worker

THE UK Government has admitted that it has footage from a RAF spy plane that was flying over Gaza as a group of aid workers were killed by the…

The National (Scotland)

RAF fighter jets fly from Scotland to patrol Polish airspace on Nato's eastern flank

RAF fighter jets will patrol Polish airspace on Nato’s eastern flank, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said.

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Evening Standard

RAF fighter jets to patrol Polish airspace on Nato’s eastern flank

The MoD said British-built Typhoon jets had arrived in eastern Poland on Tuesday from RAF Lossiemouth.

The Independent UK

RAF trooper sues for £100k claiming ‘incredibly noisy’ guns and aircraft left him deaf

Alastair Bidwell says military bosses should have been aware of the need to limit noise exposure

The Guardian - UK

John Hemingway obituary

Irish RAF fighter pilot in the second world war and one of ‘the Few’, who later became a wing commander

The Independent UK

Doctor who took months to get symptoms checked dies weeks after rare cancer diagnosis

A London lawyer and former RAF officer has penned a poignant account of her grief after her husband, a doctor, delayed seeking medical help for stomach pains and tragically died just weeks after a rare cancer diagnosis.

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"He lives on in the lives of the people he saved and those he coached and mentored" – climbers pay tribute to mountain rescue legend

David Whalley, who has died at the age of 72, was one of the UK’s most experienced mountain rescuers

The Guardian - UK

Ex-RAF pilot who killed himself and four others on M6 was suicidal, inquest hears

Coroner records Richard Woods’s death as suicide after he crashed into family’s car while driving wrong way

The National (Scotland)

Drunk man who killed Scots family on M6 'did so deliberately', inquest told

A man who drove the wrong way on the M6, killing himself and a family of four Scots, intended to take his own life, an inquest into the incident has…

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Drunk Military Personnel Cut Paddington Bear Statue In Half And Take It To Base, Get Sentenced

Surveillance footage captured the two military personnel kicking and destroying the statue during their drunk night out. The post Drunk Military Personnel Cut Paddington Bear Statue In Half And Take It To Base, Get Sentenced first appeared on Bored Panda.

Evening Standard

Shocking moment drunk RAF engineers break and steal Paddington Bear statue

Judge called two Royal Air Force engineers responsible ‘the antithesis of everything Paddington stands for’

The Guardian - UK

Judge accuses RAF pair of ‘wanton vandalism’ for destroying Paddington Bear statue

Destruction of statue by RAF engineers described as ‘the antithesis of everything Paddington stands for’

Evening Standard

Second World War veteran known as ‘the Poppy Man’ made an MBE

George Kelly, 101, was honoured in recognition of more than 40 years of voluntary service to the Royal British Legion.

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