Day: August 16, 2017

    Britain's most advanced warship ever will arrive in her home dock today for the first time. The £3 billion HMS Queen Elizabeth is expected to arrive in Portsmouth on Wednesday, a day earlier than previously expected, after weather conditions had formerly prevented the exact date from being set. It is the largest aircraft carrier ever to be built in Britain, and is expected to be the Navy's flagship craft for at least 50 years. The 280-metre vessel weighs 65,000 tonnes but can travel up to 500 miles a day. It was previously forecast to reach its Hampshire base between August 17-22, after setting out from Scotland's Rosyth dockyard in June. More than 60 Royal Navy sailors and Royal Marines took part in a training exercise aboard the American USS George HW Bush earlier this m...

    North Korean leader Kim Jong Un salutes at a parade in Pyongyang, North Korea. A new Korean War is now a real possibility, partly because Donald Trump is so volatile and impulsive, a leading think tank has warned the British government. Civil servants were urged by Malcolm Chalmers, Deputy Director General at the Royal United Services Institute, to begin preparations immediately for the possible outbreak of war between the US and North Korea. Tensions between the two countries have been steadily increasing in recent months, with Mr Trump most recently saying the US was “locked and loaded” in the face of North Korean missile threats against Guam. As a close ally of the US, the UK would most likely be asked to provide assistance in the event of a conflict on the Korean penin...