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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Defence Secretary Grant Shapps confirm that Chief of the Defence Staff Admiral Sir Tony Radakin will be extended in post until autumn 2025.
The wait is nearly over for fans of the hit Channel 5 documentary Coastguard: Search and Rescue SOS as the brand-new second series is primed to air at 8pm on Sunday 28 April.
The Earl of Courtown was appointed Deputy Chief Whip (Captain of The Queen’s Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard) on 23 September 2022. He previously held the same role between July 2016 and July 2019. Education He was educated...
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Angus Essenhigh joined the Royal Navy in 1992 as a University Cadet. Early seagoing assignments in Minesweepers, Frigates and as the Navigating Officer of an American Destroyer followed. He returned to the UK in 2002 and commanded two P2000 patrol...
Commodore Richard Powell joined the Royal Navy in 1980. After initial officer training, which included service in the South Atlantic during the 1982 Falklands campaign, he was appointed to the Hong Kong Squadron as a patrol boat navigator. In 1985,...
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Vice Admiral Hally joined the Royal Navy in 1991. In 2012, he became Commander Logistics of the helicopter carrier HMS Illustrious, deploying to the Mediterranean and the Middle East. After tasking to provide humanitarian and disaster relief to the Philippines...
Ned Holborn is a career diplomat who joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1999. Ned has had postings in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Abu Dhabi, UAE, and Santiago, Chile. His most recent posting was as Deputy Head of Mission in Caracas,...
Southern Region, Mr I Perry BSc FRICS (Chairman), Mr N Robinson FRICS and Mr M Woodrow MRICS on 9 December 2021
Air Vice-Marshal A Gillespie was appointed on 10 December 2021. His previous MOD roles include: Defence Intelligence Staff and MOD Directorate of Strategic Plans Chief of Combat Operations in the USAF Central Command Combined Air Operations Centre (CAOC) (Qatar) Command...
As Defence Attaché at the British Embassy in Washington, Major General Buster Howes OBE is focused on operations and contingency planning, defence intelligence, cyber and space, service personnel, defence education and doctrine. Buster was educated at Christ’s Hospital and York...
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