Defence giant Chemring posts a 17% jump in half-year pre-tax profit to £49.6 million, thanks to strong sales of protective devices like those that defuse roadside bombs used against British forces in Afghanistan... more
An urgent review of how the UK's transport systems have performed during the big freeze was under way today as thousands faced yet more disruption... more
Defence giant Chemring today shrugs off the impact of the Budget’s spending cuts, claiming the Government’s move to ringfence the Army’s short-term operations would protect demand... more
Exclusive: Famed promoter Frank Maloney talks for the first time about the tragic events surrounding the loss of his boxer and how it nearly cost him his own life... more
Detecting landmines and sending up flares on battlefields and to protect borders are a boom business in more ways than one, the defence group Chemring said... more
Terry Edwards's hope of turning Britain into the top boxing nation at the London Olympics in 2012 has received a significant boost from Olympic chief Simon Clegg... more
Terry Edwards reacted furiously to the news that one of his Olympic boxers, Billy Joe Saunders, has been suspended by the Amateur Boxing Association... more
Londoner James DeGale secures a third Beijing Olympic boxing medal for Britain with an emphatic quarter-final win over Kazakhstan's Bakhtiyar Artayev... more
Britain's 6ft 9in giant David Price has been throwing imaginary darts at old rival Roberto Cammarelle ahead of their Olympic super-heavyweight semi-final... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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