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TV presenter and journalist Lorraine Kelly joined members of the Armed Forces at the Tower of London today to launch the annual Christmas Box campaign for the Armed Forces.

Defence Secretary Philip Hammond has visited the British Army’s rapid reaction force, meeting its soldiers and learning about the equipment they use on operations.

A lightweight oxygen generator developed to save lives on the front line has won first prize at the Engineer Technology and Innovation Awards 2011.

Army Apache crews are returning to the UK this week having completed a major exercise in the United States as part of the Apache Conversion To Role course.

An initiative to plant 1,000 trees at the Defence Training Estate (DTE) range at Warcop in Cumbria is on target to create five hectares of new woodland as part of the Woodland Trust’s Woodland Carbon programme for business.

A Defence Co-operation Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) has been signed today between representatives of the UK and Vietnamese Governments.

British and Afghan soldiers launched an airborne operation into an isolated area of Helmand province which they then swept for any insurgent activity.

The Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS), General Sir David Richards, has said in an interview that in ten years time we will all agree the war in Afghanistan was necessary.

HMS Montrose has visited Ascension Island as part of her mission to promote British interests in the South Atlantic over the coming months.

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.