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Army personnel took centre stage yesterday, Tuesday 22 November 2011, as the President of Turkey Abdullah Gül arrived in London to begin his three-day state visit of Britain.

The MOD today announced the winners of its prestigious Sanctuary and Energy Awards during a ceremony in London.

Defence Ministers were shaking plastic buckets at members of the public in London yesterday in order to help raise cash for this year’s Poppy Appeal.

Following their return from Helmand province last month 3 Commando Brigade Royal Marines paraded through London to Westminster yesterday for a reception at the Houses of Parliament.

Royal Navy Warrant Officer Class 1 Rob Fuller has become the first sailor from the Senior Service to be a Yeoman Warder of Her Majesty’s Royal Palace and Fortress The Tower of London.

Service personnel and their families in Hounslow, West London are settling into newly refurbished homes delivered by Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) as part of an ongoing £7.8 million upgrade project.

HMS Dauntless became the first of the Royal Navy’s new Type 45 destroyers to visit the capital when she sailed up the Thames on Saturday to the ExCeL Centre in London’s Docklands.

Britain’s Armed Forces were amongst the recipients at last night’s 14th annual GQ Men of the Year Awards which were held at the Royal Opera House in London’s Covent Garden.

The Armed Forces annual welfare conference was held at the MOD’s Main Building in London yesterday with an assurance that, during a testing time for Defence, military welfare remains high on the agenda.

Secretary of State for Defence Dr Liam Fox welcomed the Canadian Defence Minister, the Honourable Peter MacKay, to London yesterday with a ceremonial guard formed by members of the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment.