The start date for a £21m coastal defence scheme has been pushed back to 2027 due to “various delays”, a council has said. East Devon District Council said the project would help protect Sidmouth town and seafront from flooding and erosion for the next 100 years. The project was originally due to begin this year...
Trump claims “big win” as Nato defence spending set to increase to 5% of GDP. Read full article at source...
Laura Gozzi & Paul Kirby BBC News NICOLAS TUCAT/AFP Nato’s secretary general, Mark Rutte, hosted the 32 leaders in his home country For the Netherlands this was the biggest security operation in its history; for Nato’s 32 member states the Hague summit was historic too. There were unexpected moments of levity in among the momentous...
Paul Kirby Europe digital editor JOHN THYS/AFP The US president (L) has been pushing for Nato allies to “equalise” their defence spending for some time Nato leaders are meeting in The Hague to decide on ramping up defence spending to 5% of their countries’ economic output, following months of pressure from US President Donald Trump....
Madeline Halpert BBC News in New York court Watch: The BBC’s Nada Tawfik explains how prosecutors went after Diddy in his sex trafficking trial Sean “Diddy” Combs’ legal team rested their case in his sex trafficking trial on Tuesday after making arguments for only about 20 minutes. Their short presentation followed nearly seven weeks of...
BBC Nato leaders including President Trump and Prime Minister Keir Starmer are meeting to agree a big increase in defence spending, but nearly a third of the alliance’s members have not reached the existing spending target. The new target will be to spend 5% of the size of their economies, measured by GDP, on “core...
Laura Gozzi & Paul Kirby BBC News Reuters Security is tight at the Nato summit – President Trump’s first since 2019 German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has warned that Russia’s president understands only the language of force and that Tuesday’s “historic” Nato summit in The Hague will aim to ensure peace in Europe for generations to...
Mark Rutte is determined to give Donald Trump a win at the forthcoming Nato summit. The alliance’s secretary general wants to avoid the scenes of 2016 when, while in his first term, the US president berated European allies for not spending enough on defence and taking advantage of the American taxpayer. Trump views relationships, even...
In the eyes of many seasoned observers, Swiatek was the third favourite for the title behind Sabalenka and American second seed Gauff, who beat French wildcard Lois Boisson in Thursday’s second semi-final. Swiatek has been nowhere near her dominant best over the past year, failing to reach a final since last year’s French Open triumph...
Jake Wallace BBC News, South West BBC Luke Pollard said the South West has the expertise to benefit from the defence budget Government plans to increase the defence budget have been described as a “vote of confidence” in the South West. On Monday, the government detailed the plans to spend billions moving the UK military...
Ministry of Defence The government will invest billions of pounds to move the UK to “war-fighting readiness” in the face of a new era of threats from nuclear powers like Russia and China, the defence secretary has said. The government has accepted all 62 recommendations set out in a long-awaited Strategic Defence Review (SDR), including...
The British defence review was asked to make its recommendations within the budgetary constraints of spending 2.5% of GDP on defence. But it is already clear that to meet its goals of transforming Britain’s armed forces, to make them ready for war, there’ll have to be more money. The review welcomes the government’s “ambition” to...
Oscar Bentley Political reporter PA Media Keir Starmer launched the review alongside Defence Secretary John Healey at BAE Systems in Govan, Glasgow Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has set out the government’s defence strategy for the next decade. The so-called “root and branch” review of the UK’s defence capability, led by former UK defence secretary...
Members of the Western alliance Nato need to prepare for a possible attack from Russia within the next four years, according to Germany’s chief of defence. General Carsten Breuer told the BBC that Russia was producing hundreds of tanks a year, many of which could be used for an attack on Nato Baltic state members...
We speak the man who was ‘C’ as the UK commits to increasing defence spending. Read full article at source...