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The Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth arrives in Portsmouth
AN INQUEST will probe the death of a Royal Navy officer who died while on service in the Gulf, the Morning Star has learned.
Thirty-year-old Lieutenant Steven Clarke died on December 10 at a British naval base in Bahrain.
More details about the officer’s death will be heard at Milton Keynes coroner’s court on June 14 by senior coroner Thomas Osborne. The court will sit for one day only and there will not be a jury.
As the government quietly upgrades the role of Britain’s special forces, their growing global footprint and near-total exemption from democratic oversight should alarm us all, says ROGER McKENZIE
From 35,000 troops in Talisman Sabre war games to HMS Spey provocations in the Taiwan Strait, Labour continues Tory militarisation — all while claiming to uphold ‘one China’ diplomatic agreements from 1972, reports KENNY COYLE
