Defence ministers have insisted a parachute drop to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day will be sufficiently resourced, amid ...
Defence Secretary Grant Shapps said 181 parachuters will take part – the same number as those involved in the operation in the location on D-Day. Published May 20 A re-enactment parachute jump ...
Defence Secretary Grant Shapps said 181 parachuters will take part – the same number as those involved in the operation in the location on D-Day. Published May 20 Defence ministers have insisted a ...
Defence officials have been scrambling around to secure more aircrafts to take take part in the mass parachute drop for the 80th anniversary of D-Day following a shortage. The shortage of planes ...
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has been forced to cut back D-Day memorial parachute jumps as only one plane is guaranteed. Grant Shapps said that the shortage of planes for the mass parachute drop ...
Grant Shapps today vowed to find more planes for a mass parachute jump to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day. The Defence Secretary made the commitment amid fury that cuts to the military had left ...
Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has said more planes will be found to take part in a mass parachute drop for this year's D-Day commemorations. One plane is available for the Parachute Regiment to ...
The Parachute Regiment wanted to send 450 troops in four Airbus A400M Atlas planes to the June 6 commemorations in Normandy. But the RAF said only one of the planes, a replacement for the Hercules ...
Major commemorative events will be held in Portsmouth and Normandy on June 5 and 6 (Phil Dye/MoD Crown Copyright/PA) (PA Media) Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will lead ...
Flowers have been laid close to where a 14-year-old boy died after getting into difficulty in the river Tyne. A nearby tree ...
The Government has scrapped plans for a pilot 'hydrogen town' with thousands of homes heated by low carbon gas amid a wave of protests and questions over the technology. The Department for Energy ...