Summary
Various news outlets report speculation that Lord Philip, a retired Scottish judge, has agreed to conduct an independent review into an RAF Chinook helicopter crash on the Mull of Kintyre in 1994. | There has been widespread media coverage of the evidence given by former Chief of the General Staff, General Sir Richard Dannatt, at the Iraq Inquiry yesterday. | The Times reports that it is estimated that at any one time at least 4,000 British military personnel are studying with the Open University. | The Financial Times reports that US intelligence files published by WikiLeaks feature a series linking Osama bin Laden to suicide bombings in Afghanistan, a plot to assassinate President Karzai and financial dealings with North Korea. | The Daily Telegraph writes that The Indian Times yesterday reported details of normally secret British submarine operations, saying that they were taking part in secret war games off the coast of Goa. | BBC Breakfast featured a segment about several bereaved Armed Forces families who are currently on an outdoors adventure holiday in Cornwall funded by the charity Family Activity Breaks (FAB). | Various media outlets report that Army medic Corporal Sarah Marriott has saved an Afghan hound that she found while on foot patrol and was able to fly it back to the UK after a charity paid the £3,500 transport costs.
New Chief of the General Staff announced
Her Majesty The Queen has approved the appointment of General Sir Peter Wall as the new Chief of the General Staff, it has been announced today, Thursday 29 July 2010. General Wall will take over from the current Chief of the General Staff, General Sir David Richards, in September this year. Click here to read more.
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