We can confirm the names of the three Royal Navy personnel who tragically lost their lives during a helicopter training exercise on 3 June:
Lt Cdr Chris Gayson, 42, Somerset
Lt Lily-Mae Fisher, 31, Surrey
PO Owen Green, 24, Hampshire
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#OnThisDay 81 yrs ago 1945 the King ordered @RoyalNavy to ‘Splice the mainbrace’ to mark VE Day and the end of #ww2 in #europe over 50,000 members of the Naval Service & over 35,000 merchant seamen lost their lives during the war. Let us never waste the peace that they won for us
I’ve just boarded a flight from London to the US.
I checked my boarding pass and headed to my seat, fully expecting it to be occupied by an entitled woman claiming to need it so she could be near her kids, giving me the essential elements of an indignant social media post.
But no.
The seat was empty.
No entitled woman claiming to need it so she could be near her kids, giving me the essential elements of an indignant social media post.
Empty. Unoccupied.
I sat down. The delightful stewardess brought me a drink.
Sometimes in life oh do fuck off.
Never stop saying "dozen" and "half dozen". Never stop using the word you read in an old novella. Never stop using your regional jargon. Don't succumb to an internationalized English stripped of its whimsy and romanticism in the name of streamlining global commerce.
For 205 days our @RoyalNavy Submariners have provided our nations ultimate insurance policy. I thought my 100 days on a Polaris Patrol was enough, my admiration has no bounds. Equally, my contempt for @Conservatives & @UKLabour for putting them in this place has no bounds either
🚨 WATCH: Keir Starmer's full address to the nation about the war in Iran
"Whether to commit British troops to military action is the most serious responsibility of any Prime Minister... I have been attacked... but at every stage, I have stood by my principles"
We are pleased to announce that the National Army Museum will be the new home of
the @LordAshcroft collection of Victoria Crosses and George Crosses.
Find out more:
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