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Prince Harry to join soldiers for gruelling Arctic trek

12.01.11
Prince Harry is in intensive training to take part in a gruelling 200-mile trek across Arctic pack ice to the North Pole with four disabled soldiers... more

Wounded soldier honoured for saving comrades

07.12.10
Soldier who lost both his legs and an eye in a bomb blast in Afghanistan is awarded the Military Cross for his bravery... more

MBE for Olympic golden girl Amy Williams

25.11.10
Winter Olympics gold medallist Amy Williams and businesswoman Michelle Mone are be among those to be honoured at Buckingham Palace... more

Apprentice contender quits show to be with injured soldier brother

13.10.10
Apprentice contender Raleigh Addington reveals he quit the show to dash to his brother's side after he was badly wounded serving in Afghanistan... more

‘Deaths could occur which could have been stopped. We are walking on a tightrope’

17.08.10
So wrote Lt Mark Evison just before he was fatally wounded in Afghanistan. But did the shortages he was decrying contribute to his own killing, asks Ross Lydall... more

Last soldiers return from Afghan ‘bandit country’

23.04.10
Last British soldiers to leave one of the most fiercely contested areas of Afghanistan return home ... more

Soldier dies three weeks after bomb patrol in Helmand

16.03.10
Soldier injured by an explosion in Afghanistan dies in hospital in Britain after a three-week fight for life... more

Honours for TA life-savers in front-line field hospitals

05.03.10
Army medical volunteers from a London-based field hospital are being honoured for their treatment of injured British soldiers in Afghanistan... more

Recovery units to help get troops back to Afghanistan

11.02.10
An initiative has been launched to speed up the treatment of wounded soldiers to boost the number of troops able to be deployed to Afghanistan... more

MoD denies unfit soldiers are hampering Afghan operations

12.01.10
British military chiefs deny that having 5,000 soldiers unfit for frontline duties was hitting operations in Afghanistan... more

Photographer flown home after losing foot in explosion

11.01.10
A newspaper photographer who suffered serious injuries in an explosion in Afghanistan which killed British journalist Rupert Hamer has been flown back to Britain... more

Five heroes: Tributes to soldiers murdered in Afghanistan

05.11.09
Latest: Emotional tributes paid to the five British soldiers shot dead by a renegade Afghan policeman as military chiefs pledge to hunt down the men’s killer... more

Ambulance hits pillar on 999 call

02.11.09
Ambulance crashes into a concrete pillar on its way to try to save a man trapped under a train, the emergency service said... more

‘Nothing can prepare them for the sheer horror of the real thing’

12.10.09
London medics to treat Afghan war casualties as reservists embark on a three-month deployment... more

General: If we fail, the world’s terrorists will be intoxicated

18.09.09
Allied forces do not have the 'luxury of time' in the battle against the Taliban in Afghanistan, a British military chief warns... more

The man who showed the way to London

08.09.09
The wisdom of the late Keith Waterhouse was bountiful but his phrase that most inspired me was "always look up"... more

Son of British commander loses leg in Taliban roadside bombing

21.07.09
Son of one of Britain’s most senior army officers has been severely injured in a roadside bomb blast in Afghanistan, it was reported... more

Tributes to two dead in Helmand

29.05.09
Tributes were paid to two British servicemen who died within hours of each other after being wounded in separate incidents in Afghanistan... more

Marine dies after Afghanistan blast

28.05.09
Royal Marine dies in hospital from wounds he suffered in a blast in southern Afghanistan... more

British soldier killed in Afghanistan

15.05.09
A British soldier has died in an explosion in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said... more

Home, the four who died on one day

13.05.09
Four British soldiers killed in one of the bloodiest days in Afghanistan have been brought home with full military honours... more

Taylor desperate to see Eduardo shine

29.02.08
Contrite after his horror challenge, Brum defender is hoping to see the Arsenal striker back to his best as soon as possible... more

Quick-thinking Lewin's rescue act

27.02.08
How the drama unfolded as Arsenal and England physio Gary Lewin helped save striker Eduardo's career after his horror injury at the weekend ... more


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