The two major infrastructure projects represent an investment of approximately £13 million at Assaye Barracks, Tidworth and approximately £37 million at Battlesbury Barracks, Warminster under the Ministry of Defence’s Defence Estate Optimisation (DEO) Portfolio. DEO is delivering more modern and sustainable infrastructure across the Defence estate and reducing the built estate by releasing surplus land […]

Medical evacuation has been arranged as a highly precautionary measure following a potential healthcare related exposure to Ebola. UKHSA works with international partners to ensure that any British residents who may be at risk can be safely returned home and given the treatment and care required. The individual is a UK resident who has been […]

Parts of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight went into prolonged dry weather 11 days earlier due to growing pressures on the environment. The continued impact of hot temperatures, little rainfall and growing demand for water is now also being felt in Sussex. South East Water has said temporary use bans in Hampshire, Sussex, Surrey and Berkshire come into effect on Saturday 25 July, joining Kent. The water company […]

A California man was arrested yesterday after a grand jury sitting in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania returned an indictment charging him with conspiracy, mail fraud and money laundering. According to the indictment, Christopher Slater was part of a multi-state conspiracy to defraud the United States of more than $52.7 million by filing hundreds of false tax returns claiming Paid Sick […]

An Ohio man was sentenced to prison today in connection with his involvement with online groups dedicated to creating and distributing videos depicting acts of extreme violence and sexual abuse against monkeys. Nicholas T. Dryden, of Cincinnati, was sentenced to 108 months in prison and three years of supervised release for creating so-called “animal crush videos,” […]

The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released the following statement after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) arrested a criminal illegal alien who had been sending sexual text messages to someone he believed was a 14-year-old girl in South Dakota. In May 2026, an ICE law enforcement officer was working undercover in an operation to […]

The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) has unveiled a newly redesigned series of EC banknotes that will celebrate the people, history and achievements of the eight member countries of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU), marking a historic shift away from featuring the late Queen Elizabeth II. The new banknote designs were officially unveiled on […]

The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released the following statement after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lodged a detainer for an alien from Ukraine without legal status who was convicted for causing a fatal truck crash that killed two people in Alabama. According to local reporting, the crash occurred on May 6, 2025, in Thomasville, Alabama. Andrii […]

TRAVEL: by Eric Mackenzie Lamb I recently made a visit to Colmar, a small city in southwestern France. Colmar’s old town has cobblestoned streets lined with half timbered  medieval and renaissance buildings . The Gothic 13th century Eglise St Martin church stands on the central place of La Cathedral.  The city is on the Alsace […]