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A British Army major has been fined £5,000 after a corporal suffered serious burns when he ran over burning coals in a ‘kangaroo court’ punishment. Major David Landon told Corporal Nathan Black he had to either sing the regimental song or tackle a burning fire pit after being accused of losing his tank regiment’s mascot. Cpl Black, … Read more
A Household Cavalry corporal is fighting for a £700,000 payout after claiming his career was wrecked when he was hit in the eye by a rubber bungee while putting up an army tent. Simon Harley, an NCO in the mounted regiment – which forms part of the Queen’s official bodyguard – says he was erecting … Read more
A barrage of rockets has hit an Iraqi military base housing US-led coalition troops for the second time this week, security officials said. Three coalition service personnel – a British woman and two Americans – were killed in the first attack on Camp Taji on Wednesday. It was the deadliest attack on coalition troops in … Read more
They are scenes reminiscent of a zombie movie: photographs and TV footage of people pushing trolleys up and down supermarket aisles in a frantic search for ‘necessities’, only to be confronted with empty or ransacked shelves. But it’s not the desperate survivors of an apocalyptic invasion by the Walking Dead who’ve swept through Tesco, Lidl … Read more
A former Army Corporal who believed her breast implants were slowly killing her for 20 years has spoken out to raise awareness. Kay Richardson, 41, got breast implants two decades ago while serving in the Royal Logistics Corps but has since had them removed after being ‘driven mad’ by a catalogue of health issues. The … Read more