BBC – Iranian state television has broadcast an interview with captured British sailor Faye Turney and footage of the 14 servicemen seized with her.
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Royal Navy – UK in 'discreet talks' with Iran
BBC – The UK government is attempting to “discreetly” talk to the Iranians to secure the release of 15 Royal Navy personnel.
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Royal Navy – Seized sailors 'held in Tehran'
BBC – The 15 Royal Navy personnel who were seized on Friday are being held at an Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps base in Tehran.
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Royal Navy – Stand-off in Gulf with Iran 'a bit like Cold War'
Daily Telegraph – Britain’s most senior naval officer in the Gulf has likened the West’s tense stand-off with Iran as being akin to “the height of the Cold War”.
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Royal Navy – First Sea Lord in threat to quit over cuts
Daily Telegraph – The First Sea Lord yesterday made veiled threats that he would resign from his post if the Government failed to deliver a Fleet that would be “serious player” on the High Seas.
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Royal Navy – MoD 'covered up sinking of French trawler'
Daily Telegraph – A new book claims that a French trawler was dragged down by a Royal Navy submarine during “war games” off the Cornish coast in 2004.
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Royal Navy – Fears over £3.6bn plan for new carriers
Daily Telegraph – Fears are growing among Royal Navy chiefs that the Ministry of Defence’s delay in signing a contract for two major aircraft carriers could signal the project’s demise.
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Royal Navy – Promotion freezes as cuts bite in Navy
Daily Telegraph – Promotion for Royal Navy officers is to be frozen for five years in a cost-cutting measure that has caused fury in the Fleet.
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Royal Navy – Navy to cut its fleet by half
Daily Telegraph – Royal Navy commanders were in uproar after it was revealed that almost half of the Fleet’s 44 warships are to be mothballed as part of a cost-cutting measure.
Daily Telegraph – Cuts are a severe blow to officers’ ambitions
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Royal Navy – Half of Royal Navy's ships in mothballs as defence cuts bite
The Times – Half of the Royal Navy is to be ìmothballedî as it bears the brunt of cuts imposed after a series of expensive procurement projects and the hidden costs of the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Royal Navy – UK nuclear weapons plan unveiled
BBC – Work on designing a new generation of nuclear submarines to maintain Britainís independent deterrent will get under way next spring
The Times – Blair keeps the £20bn nuclear option for threats yet to emerge
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Royal Navy – Trident fleet could be built abroad
The Times – New Trident submarines might not be built in Britain, the governmentís long-awaited white paper on replacing the countryís nuclear deterrent will say tomorrow.
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Royal Navy – New Trident to go ahead
The Times – The government will signal within the next two to three weeks that it wants to continue with the submarine-based Trident missile system as the UKís nuclear deterrent.
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Royal Navy – Gulf ships on alert over al-Qaeda threat
The Scotsman – The Royal Navy has warned merchant ships in the Gulf to be on their guard after an al-Qaeda threat to target oil terminals in the area.
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Royal Navy – Navy 'too weak' for big role in Korea blockade
Daily Telegraph – The UN is considering a naval blockade of North Korea, the Royal Navy is too weak to contribute.
Daily Telegraph – Navy taskforce will be forced to rely on France and America
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Royal Navy – Updated Ark Royal sails back to sea with new muscle
The Scotsman – More on HMS Ark Royal’s refit.
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Royal Navy – Futuristic naval devices tested
BBC – A series of futuristic-looking, remote-controlled water vehicles could be added to the Royal Navy’s arsenal.
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Royal Navy – £25m project turns Ark Royal into one of a kind
The Times – The Royal Navyís biggest warship, HMS Ark Royal, heads out into the North Sea for trials after a £25 million refit to transform her into the serviceís only combined troop and aircraft carrier.
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Royal Navy – Churches unite to 'end Trident'
BBC – Scotland’s religious leaders are joining campaigners on a march for peace from Faslane naval base to the Scottish Parliament.
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Royal Navy – Royal Navy sells White Ensign as 'cool' brand
Daily Telegraph – The Royal Navy is selling its trademark White Ensign logo to appear on products ranging from clothes to computer games in what it says is an attempt market its “quality brand” to potential young recruits.
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Royal Navy – Falkland Islands dispute heats up
Christian Science Monitor – Argentina is stepping up efforts to reclaim the islands over which it lost a 1982 war to Britain.
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Royal Navy – Briton's broadside as Beirut evacuation finally begins
Daily Telegraph – If the first Britons to be evacuated from Lebanon by sea were meant to be grateful for the efforts of the Government then nobody told 30-year-old Maya Kaaki.
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Royal Navy – Britons preparing to flee Lebanon
BBC – The Royal Navy begins assisting evacuations off of Lebanon.
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Royal Navy – Royal Navy's two vanguards
BBC – Two Royal Navy vessels have been dispatched to Lebanon, where they may be called into action to rescue stranded Britons. What are their capabilities?
Daily Telegraph – HMS Illustrious sent to Lebanon as Britons told: get ready to flee.
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Royal Navy – Brown backs Trident replacement
BBC – Gordon Brown has signalled that he wants to keep and renew Britain’s independent nuclear deterrent???The Trident missile system and the Vanguard submarines which carry them need replacing by 2024 and a decision is set to be taken in the next year.
Daily Telegraph – Brown in favour of updating Trident.
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