"MoD Spent £33m on 'Undeliverable' Plan"
The Ministry of Defence spent £33 million on an ‘undeliverable’ plan to part-privatise the buying and maintenance of Britain's military ...
James Hirst brings more than 30 years of journalism experience to the award-winning BFBS Sitrep podcast. He’s reported from more than 15 countries, including a total of ten months living and working alongside British troops in Afghanistan. He’s questioned Prime Ministers and NATO Secretaries General in front of the world’s media at NATO summits. Before joining BFBS in 2010 James worked at the BBC, ITN and LBC. He’s been editor of BFBS Sitrep since 2021.
The Ministry of Defence spent £33 million on an ‘undeliverable’ plan to part-privatise the buying and maintenance of Britain's military ...
The UK will break its pledge to spend two per cent of gross domestic product on defence by 2017, according to a report in The Sun. The ...
Sir Malcolm Rifkind has stepped down as chair of the Commons Intelligence and Security Committee after more than 24 hours of rigorous ...
The new complaints commissioner for the Armed Forces says she wants to hear more complaints from servicemen and women in her first months in ...
Britain is sending 30 more Army trainers to Northern Iraq, along with 1,000 bomb detectors. The specialists, drawn from across the Army ...
Pressure is growing on top politicians to protect Britain’s defence spending after the general election. The chairman of the Defence Select ...
Britain is set to contribute 1,000 troops as the lead nation in NATO's Very High Readiness Joint Task Force. It’s the so-called “Spearhead” ...
The chairman of the Iraq Inquiry has told MPs his job must not be rushed. Sir John Chilcot refused to set a date for his report, which aims ...
Two British military healthcare workers are still being monitored in hospital after potentially being exposed to Ebola in Sierra Leone. They ...
Some of Britain’s airbases, barracks, and military vehicles face being sold off to help the Ministry of Defence save money. The Defence ...
21 separate countries have agreed to commit to defeating Islamist extremism. Among those in attendance at the meeting of the "global ...
The Prime Minister David Cameron has rejected claims that plans are being made to cut the size of the Army by a quarter.James Hirst reports.
Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond says the number of new cases of Ebola appearing in Sierra Leone is now falling, in large part due to the ...
A former head of the Royal Navy has told MPs he has never known who made some of the key decisions about Britain’s new aircraft carriers ...
The Home Secretary says a terror attack in the UK is 'highly likely'. Speaking in the House of Commons, Theresa May was keen to stress that ...
Security at an British Army base where Libyan troops were trained last year has been branded ‘inadequate’ by an official report. The ...