Daily Telegraph – About 100 former inhabitants of Diego Garcia and other nearby Indian Ocean islands, who were cleared out by Britain to make way for a secret American base, will return to their abandoned homes later this month for a brief but emotional visit.
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Daily Telegraph – The Royal Navy is to install a series of nuclear submarine berths around Britain in a move that local authorities are calling the equivalent of “putting a nuclear reactor in the middle of town”.
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BBC – More on the launch of HMS Daring.
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Daily Telegraph – This week’s launch of HMS Daring marks a new era in British warship construction. Will it last?
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Daily Telgraph – A Royal Navy ship has anchored in an Argentine port for the first time since the Falklands conflict.
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Independent – Britain and France moved closer towards a co-operation agreement on the building of three aircraft carriers yesterday, after France agreed to pay up to £100m in phase payments towards the design of the ships.
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Daily Telegraph – Special Boat Service chiefs said yesterday that operations would become even more dangerous when a submarine designed for secret missions, HMS Spartan, was withdrawn from service. The vessel, fitted with a dry dock hangar from which mini-subs are launched underwater, will be decommissioned next month.
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Daily Telegraph – Cuts to the Royal Navy’s fleet of warships will render it incapable of protecting Britain’s coastline, ministers have been warned.
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BBC – A £31bn project to replace Royal Navy aircraft carriers and fighter planes may be falling “behind schedule”, an influential group of MPs has warned.
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The Herald – The latest on the UK carrier acquisition.
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BBC – A Royal Navy warship has seized two tonnes of cocaine worth £200m during a drugs bust in the western Caribbean.
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The Herald – Britain is to try to stretch the operational lifespan of its four Trident missile submarines until at least 2035 to maintain its nuclear deterrent at minimal cost and risk.
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The Times – Scotland will get the lionís share of the Royal Navyís new £4 billion aircraft carrier contracts in a decision that will determine the future shape of the British shipbuilding industry and will guarantee hundreds of Scottish jobs for more than a decade.

The Times – Four shipyards to share £4bn carriers contract.
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The Scotsman – Faslane submarine base and the nearby Coulport missile depot are vulnerable to a deadly mortar or suicide boat attack, a nuclear weapons expert warns in a new book.
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The Herald – The latest on the Royal Navy’s aircraft carrier project.
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Daily Telegraph – One of the Royal Navy’s three aircraft carriers, HMS Invincible, sailed into port yesterday for the last time before decommissioning, prompting fears that its departure will leave the senior service over-stretched.
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Daily Telegraph – Sexual harassment in the Armed Forces has reached unacceptable levels, the Ministry of Defence said yesterday, as statistics showed that nearly a quarter of women in the Royal Navy had complained about it.
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The Independent – Whales and dolphins are being killed around Britain’s coasts by Royal Navy sonar equipment, new research suggests.
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The Times – Two of the Royal Navyís Trafalgar-class nuclear-powered submarines have been banned from operating at sea because of safety concerns.
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The Herald – The latest on the Anglo-French Future Carrier Programme.
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Scotsman – Nuclear submarines using little-known Highland berths present a risk of radiation leaks, an official safety assessment seen by The Scotsman has found.
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Daily Telegraph – Cuts to the Royal Navy’s fleet of warships have left it too weak to fight another Falklands War, according to the service’s most senior officer.
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Reuters – Spain will ask Britain to set out clear guidelines on repairing nuclear submarines in Gibraltar at talks today, days after the docking of a nuclear submarine in the British colony sparked controversy in Spain.
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