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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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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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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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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BBC – The Royal Navy begins assisting evacuations off of Lebanon.
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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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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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Daily Telegraph – For the first time since the 1982 Falklands conflict the number of warships at Portsmouth naval base on active service has dropped below the number decommissioned and awaiting disposal.
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The Times – Four decades after they were evicted from their island homes by British colonial authorities, the inhabitants of the Chagos Islands (including Diego Garcia) came a step closer to realising their dream of returning home yesterday after the High Court issued a landmark judgment in their favour.

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The Times – A new remote-controlled unmanned British submarine could transform the way in which the Royal Navyís Special Boat Service spies out beaches and landing zones.
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Daily Telegraph – The Royal Navy’s Sea Harrier jump-jets, which played a vital role in the Falklands conflict 24 years ago, made their final flight yesterday.
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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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Sea Power – Naval news from Chile, Australia, India, United Arab Emirates, and Pakistan

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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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