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Aerial footage of Cumbria floods The body of a man found after a bridge collapsed over a flooded river is Pc Bill Barker, police have confirmed. Pc Barker, 44, vanished after a bridge in Workington caved in as Cumbria was hit...
David Miliband says UK needs more time to shore up Afghan government The Afghan government could fall within weeks if Nato pulled out troops now, David Miliband warned today as he urged British opponents of the war to give the...
Graham Fitzgerald, Sky News Online A huge relief operation is underway in the North West after torrential rain caused rivers to burst their banks and more than 50 people were airlifted to safety by the RAF. To view this content...
RAF helicopter crews have been working to rescue people from flooded homes and swollen rivers in the worst-affected areas of Cumbria. This footage shows one crew from RAF Chivenor having to abandon the evacuation of one home...
Jenny Uglow follows the careers of five artists whose lives were defined by the first world war The friendships made in early youth, writes David Boyd Haycock, are more open and intense than any others. In the heady student...
An 87-year-old RAF veteran, Madge Covey, must stop carrying the Royal British Legion standard because she is too old to insure, the charity has said. Mrs Covey has been proudly holding aloft a legion flag pole at remembrance...
An RAF Sea King was used to rescue residents in Cockermouth More than 500 people across Cumbria are spending the night in emergency shelters after "unprecedented" rainfall sparked devastating floods. Cockermouth and Keswick...
On today's WashPost op-ed pages, Jim Comey and Jack Goldsmith, who worked in the Justice Department under GWB, defend Eric Holder's decision and say that in fact it's military tribunals that don't work that well: In deciding to...
Sher Mohammed Akhundzada the former governor of Afghanistan's Helmand province has revealed he turned thousands of his followers over to the Taliban after he was sacked from the job under pressure from British officials.
A People In Defence news article A Royal Air Force Flight Lieutenant has become the first pilot in the world to reach 1,000 flying hours on the Eurofighter Typhoon. Antony 'Parky' Parkinson landed his jet at RAF Coningsby...
