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Senior custody officers set to be issued with body armour after shooting of Matt Ratana

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Senior custody officers are set to be issued with body armour after shooting of Matt Ratana at police station Body armour could be given to senior custody officers to better protect force  This follows death of Sergeant Matt Ratana was fatally shot at work in September Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick announced the pilot scheme last month … Read more

Met Police orders all custody sergeants to wear body armour after Sgt Matt Ratana’s death in station

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Met Police orders all custody sergeants to wear body armour and gives metal detectors to officers on the street after Sgt Matt Ratana was shot dead by ‘handcuffed suspect’ Custody detention officer sergeants now wear armour to speak in first instance Officers on the beat also to be given metal detector wands to help searches Comes … Read more

Armour of Roman soldier unearthed at site where three legions were wiped out in 9 AD 

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The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest is one of the two great military humiliations in the glittered history of the Roman Empire.  Between 15,000 and 20,000 Roman soldiers and their commanders, led by Publius Quinctilius Varus, a general under the emperor Augustus, were destroyed by Germanic warriors in a series of guerrilla-style attacks.  The soldiers … Read more

Gun test shows new body armour may NOT save the lives of Britain’s police

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The lives of Britain’s elite soldiers and police officers could be at risk from inadequate new body armour, a safety test carried out for The Mail on Sunday has revealed. Safety experts said the result of our experiment on the lightweight polyethylene chest plates, increasingly being rolled out among Special Forces, Royal protection teams and … Read more

Cottage features lavish interior inspired by a CASTLE with a suit of armour and chandeliers

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Not your average two-bedroom home! Cottage worth £345,000 features lavish interior inspired by a CASTLE with a suit of armour, chandeliers and a four-poster bed Interior of the two-bedroom cottage was inspired by Belvoir Castle and has been uniquely styled throughout  The grade-II listed building is in Cranford, near Kettering, Northamptonshire and has been sold … Read more

Belarus president Lukashenko waves assault rifle and wears body armour

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The authoritarian president of Belarus made a dramatic show of defiance Sunday against the massive protests demanding his resignation, toting a rifle and wearing a bulletproof vest as he strode off a helicopter that landed at his residence while demonstrators massed nearby.  It comes as tens of thousands of Belarusians joined an anti-government demonstration in … Read more

Lindsey Vonn showcases her athletic figure in Under Armour crop top and leggings

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Lindsey Vonn showcases her athletic figure in Under Armour crop top and leggings during Hollywood Hills stroll By David Lawrance For Dailymail.com Published: 22:00 BST, 8 July 2020 | Updated: 22:00 BST, 8 July 2020 She’s been engaged to fiance P.K. Subban since August last year. But Lindsey Vonn went for a solo stroll on … Read more

Body armour made from SHRIMP SHELLS could protect soldiers against bullets, lasers and poison gas

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A coating to make body armour impervious to bullets, lasers, microbes and even poison gas is being developed in the US from the same material as shrimp shells.  Chitin is a robust natural material which forms the shells of crustaceans, protects butterfly wings and is found in mushroom cells.  The material is a naturally occurring, and … Read more

Ancient armour of a prehistoric reptile ‘overlap like roof tiles’

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Palaeontologists have created the first 3D reconstruction of the tough scales of a prehistoric reptile that ‘overlapped like roof tiles’. The UK team used CT scans to map the tough body armour of an aetosaur, a prehistoric reptile that lived 225 million years ago, based on Scottish fossils. The aetosaurs were heavily-armoured reptiles that lived … Read more