Simon Newton began his career as a print journalist in the early 1990s before moving into broadcasting. He has reported for Sky News, BBC News and ITV and received numerous awards. He reported extensively from Afghanistan and spent three months embedded with British troops in Helmand. He now covers the war in Ukraine.
Three replica BE-2 biplanes are to fly from Headcorn in Kent to Abbeville to mark the 100th anniversary of the first Royal Flying Corps ...
Commemorations marking the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War have been taking place across the UK and in Belgium.The Duke of ...
Today marks the centenary of the outbreak of fighting in the First World War.The dead from both sides of the conflict were buried at a ...
Former Director of Broadcasting for BFBS Peter McDonagh has written a book about his career at the corporation. The memoir, entitled Me and ...
It's 40 years to the day since Turkish troops landed in Cyprus. Since then the island has been divided, the two communities physically ...
For the past few months the Royal Navy destoyer HMS Diamond has been working as part of a UN fleet off the coast of Syria.She has been ...
An investigation has revealed a US military helicopter crashed in Norfolk seconds after a catastrophic bird strike rendered the pilot and co ...
Members of the Armed Forces have posted confidential military information on social networks.
Four NATO troops have been killed in a suicide attack near Bagram Airbase in eastern Afghanistan.ISAF says the soldiers were from the Czech ...
The Ministry of Defence has published a new report that tries to predict what the future of warfare will be like.
The new vehicles that will form the basis of the Army's future battlegroup have been on show on day two of a special event in Bedfordshire ...
The UK's largest military vehicle event is taking place over the next two days in Bedfordshire. DVD, which stands for Defence Vehicle ...
Patients at Headley Court in Surrey are taking part in an unusual new therapy project.It involves turning tatty old furniture from charity ...
The Prime Minister announced a new £1 million bursary scheme to help state schools run their Combined Cadet Forces.
Scores of people have been killed during a battle for a provincial capital in Iraq. Fighting has shut the main oil refinery, starving parts ...
The Royal Air Force has launched the new version of the Chinook.