Find out how Paul Maynard and the Conservatives will stand up for our armed forces, by doubling the Operational Allowance they receive for active service and producing a dedicated Armed Forces Manifesto.
It might not quite have coincided with Veterans Week, but I was delighted to welcome Dr Liam Fox, Shadow Secretary of State for Defence, to the constituency on Saturday.
Kindly organised by Roy Haskett, Liam was able to meet with some of the veterans from the Royal Marines Association and others connected with the Fylde Ex-Servicemens’
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It staggers me that it has taken until now for the Government to announce a new Strategic Defence Review – a decade after the last, and with two major land wars since then. Our Shadow Defence Secretary Liam Fox has been calling for such a review since he took on the role – and he’s
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I’m just back from Moor Park Primary and a meeting of residents the Carleton Lodge Farm Estate (aka the Herb Gardens because all the road names are herbs) which nestles between Moor Park Primary and the crematorium. The two ward councillors Steve Houghton and Julian Mineur were holding the meeting to discuss with residents a
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Sitting at the start of midnight mass yesterday, the choir struck up at the beginning with a highly discordant introductory piece. Such discordance has marked the day.
As I sat in church, several thousand miles further east, troops in Afghanistan were waking up to the start of their Christmas Day. They were also waking up to
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