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News story: Commando Helicopter Force on exercise in Jordan
The squadron – which spent 4 years in Afghanistan with its sister Commando Helicopter Force unit 846 Naval Air Squadron (NAS) – is using the unique environment offered by the south Jordanian city of...
View ArticlePress release: Admiralty Arch proposal gets go ahead
In a public meeting this evening, Westminster City Council (WCC) granted planning permission to developers Prime Investors Capital (PIC) to renovate the former office space into a 5* hotel, residences...
View ArticlePress release: Operational note: statutory guidance and directions for local...
The Senior Traffic Commissioner for Great Britain, Beverley Bell, has today (21 August 2013) published a consultation on draft statutory guidance and statutory directions covering local bus...
View ArticlePress release: 26,000 new businesses set up by entrepreneurial jobseekers
Entrepreneurial jobseekers have set up more than 26,000 new businesses thanks to a government scheme that helps unemployed people turn their dreams of becoming their own boss into a reality, new...
View ArticlePress release: Tuberculosis rates remain among highest in Western Europe
The figures are published today (21 August 2013) in Public Health England’s annual “TB in the UK: 2013 report”.Rates of TB have stabilised at around 14 cases per 100,000 since the mid-2000s, following...
View ArticlePress release: Foreign Secretary concerned at reports of chemical attack in...
Commenting on reports of a chemical weapons attack in Syria, the Foreign Secretary William Hague said: I am deeply concerned by reports that hundreds of people, including children, have been killed in...
View ArticleNews story: DFID Research: HIV-related evaluations- synthesizing the evidence
In 2011, The Lancet published an important article by Schwartländer and others which proposed an improved investment approach for an effective response to HIV/AIDS. This approach has profound...
View ArticleStatement to Parliament: PM: review of the intelligence for 7/7 London...
I have today laid before the House the Intelligence and Security Committee’s review of the intelligence on the London terrorist attacks in July 2005 (Cm 7617).I would like to convey once again my...
View ArticleNews story: Policing Minister praises digital innovators
Policing Minister Damian Green has praised Hampshire Police’s “effective and ambitious” use of digital technology.He visited Winchester this week to learn about the force’s digital initiatives,...
View ArticlePress release: New Chair announced for the NHS Business Services Authority
NHSBSA provides a range of central services to NHS organisations, contractors, patients and the public; including the NHS Pension Scheme. Silla Maizey joins NHSBSA as Chair, following 34 years’...
View ArticleNews story: Royal Navy and RAF join forces in the Gulf
The aircraft joined HMS Dragon and US fighter jets in a training exercise to detect, classify and monitor contacts on the sea’s surface in the challenging conditions of the Gulf.The Type 45 destroyer...
View ArticlePress release: House building innovations will help deliver homes
Visiting an award winning housing development in Essex, the minister encouraged builders to make greater use of techniques including off site manufacture to improve the speed and design of building new...
View ArticleNews story: Change of Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Slovenia
She will succeed Mr Andrew Page, who will be transferring to another Diplomatic Service appointment. Ms Honey will take up her appointment during February 2014.Ms Honey joined the FCO in 1999 following...
View ArticleNews story: Police forces: handling of DBS check applications
Since mid-June there has been a number of legislative changes introduced which affect the way Police forces review DBS check applications, if these are sent to the Police for consideration. These...
View ArticleSpeech: Honours: recognising contributions to health and care
Honours are a visible celebration of people who really make a difference. Every year, the award of honours is announced at new year and in mid summer to mark the Queen’s Birthday. A person can be...
View ArticlePress release: DFID invests to save millions from deadly diseases
Each year, millions of people are infected or killed by HIV, TB, malaria, diarrhoea and neglected tropical diseases. In some cases, there are no treatments available; in others, such as TB, malaria and...
View ArticleNews story: Zimbabwean Court ruling not credible without independent...
Following the announcement by the Zimbabwean Constitutional Court that the presidential election result should stand and President Mugabe can be inaugurated, the Foreign Secretary William Hague said:I...
View ArticlePress release: Eric Pickles opens up planning appeals and lays down challenge
Local Government Secretary, Eric Pickles, today (22 August 2013) warned that freedom of speech and independent journalism were under attack in local government, following local residents being...
View ArticlePress release: New guide for communities to design their own flags
Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles has today (22 August 2013) praised the Flag Institute for their new guide for communities to design their own flags and the Department for Communities and Local...
View ArticlePress release: New biomass sustainability criteria to provide certainty for...
Biomass electricity will produce over 70% greenhouse gas savings compared to fossil fuel alternatives, under changes made by the government to ensure the sustainability of wood-fuel used to create...
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