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What Oor Willie Did Next (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
A government adviser has resigned in protest at the sacking of a colleague from the MOD advisory group which is deciding how to dispose of the UK's decommissioned nuclear submarines. Peter Lanyon says his position is no longer tenable as his views and those of his sacked colleague were not being considered. Dr Jane Hunt, a specialist in Environmental Projects at Lancaster University was sacked from...
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Glenn Goodall's blog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Liberal Democrat Defence Spokesperson and MP for Dunfermline and West Fife, Willie Rennie, today questioned Gordon Brown over potential MoD plans to dump nuclear submarine waste at Rosyth, again! When he was in opposition, Gordon Brown described such plans as threatening to turn Rosyth into a ‘nuclear graveyard’. Responding to the Prime Minister’s answer, Willie Rennie said: Unfortunately...
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Dunedin Napier News (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
by Irene Gimeno Twenty-seven-year-old Corporal Thomas ‘Tam’ Mason, as his comrades knew him, natural of Rosyth, Fife, died on Sunday 25th of October at the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham. The Scottish soldier became the 223rd casualty after medical efforts were not able to save his life from blast injuries caused by [...]
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Naval Open Source INTelligence (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Five sites in Scotland have been secretly earmarked as radioactive waste dumping grounds. The list was drawn up by Ministry of Defence chiefs who are looking for a storage site for 27 nuclear submarines that have been scrapped or are about to be. The sites are the Clyde naval nuclear bases of Coulport and Faslane, the Rosyth dockyard in Fife, the Dounreay nuclear plant in Caithness and Hunterston nuclear...
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Perth FM news (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
lack Watch soldier who died of woulds sustained in Afghanistan has been named A Black Watch soldier who died from injuries sustained in Afghanistan has been named as Corporal Thomas Mason from Rosyth. He was serving in Kandahar Province when an improvised explosive device detonated six weeks ago. His commanding officer, Leftenant Colonel Stephen Cartwright has called him a hero, and hopes the family...
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SUBROSA (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Corporal Thomas Mason, 27, died in Selly Oak hospital Birmingham on Sunday night. He was injured by an improvised explosive device in Kandahar Province on 15 September and flown back to the UK, but despite the efforts of medical staff, he did not survive. Cpl Mason served with the Black Watch, 3rd Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland and came from Rosyth, Fife. He is survived by his wife Kylie....
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Helmand Blog - Afghanistan (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
It is with deep regret that the Ministry of Defence must confirm the death of Corporal Thomas 'Tam' Mason from The Black Watch, 3rd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland (3 SCOTS), at the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, Selly Oak Hospital, on Sunday 25 October 2009. Corporal Mason was injured when an improvised explosive device detonated during an operation in Kandahar province on 15 September...
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The Infotel Blog, Online Hotel Reservation Specialists (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
Gladyer Inn Rosyth, Dunfermline, Fife Visit The Gladyer Inn during Halloween, just £44.50 for a single room with breakfast. Book online at : http://www.infotel.co.uk/14695 Or call our contact centre on 01775 843413. Lines open 9am - 7pm Monday to Friday. See more frighteningly wicked Halloween offers at http://infotel.posterous.com/tag/halloween Stay in a haunted hotel this Halloween: http://www.infotel.co.uk/haunted_hotels_uk.htm...
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SNP Tactical Voting (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
The Scotland on Sunday lecture at this weekend's SNP party conference will involve Angus Robertson MP discussing the party's approach to defence in an independent Scotland. I thought, in a bid to get even more in the mood for Conference, over the next few days I'd blog about a few of the fringe events that I plan on attending. After a spate of media articles in the past few days, we know that the SNP's...
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Naval Open Source INTelligence (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
The Royal Navy warship HMS Argyll is to have her missile system upgraded in a major £19m refit in Fife. The Type 23 frigate has just arrived in Rosyth for a year-long overhaul by 120 Babcock staff who will provide her with new electronic guns. It will also get a new weapon control system, a new computer system, upgraded living quarters, and a sonar upgrade. Read more
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BBC Sport (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
The Royal Navy warship HMS Argyll will have her missile system upgraded in a major £19m refit in Fife.
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
The Royal Navy warship HMS Argyll will have her missile system upgraded in a major £19m refit in Fife.
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Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | 28/09/2009
THE operators of the recently re-launched Rosyth to Zeebrugge ferry crossing say they have seen a rise in the ratio of passengers travelling to Scotland.
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Working Class Tory (Free subscription) | 17/09/2009
The Tories will cut ship-building in Scotland, according to the Daily Record : Shadow Chancellor George Osborne admitted the Conservatives would target existing defence projects as part of a cost-cutting drive if they win power. He admitted that a £4billion project to build two new aircraft supercarriers on the Clyde and at Rosyth was among those in their sights. The project will support 4600...
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Whitehall 1212 (Free subscription) | 16/09/2009
My dispatch for today's Herald from the TUC in Liverpool. This is news which will not go down well in Glasgow were "wurr super-carriers", as Ian Davidson MP would have it, are being built. Thousands of defence jobs in Scotland are under threat as the first victims of the looming political battle over cuts in public sector spending. As Prime Minister Gordon Brown took the symbolic step of...
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