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- 'They stayed a little back, a little off the front lines'
- Free legal advice to be available to victims of sexual offences perpetrated by service personnel
- National event 22.5.26 to commemorate 15 years since the end of the Iraq War (Op Telic)
- Armed Forces Bill to impose new legal Covenant duties on Government
- Armed Policing opportunities with Civil Nuclear Constabulary (CNC)
- Armed Forces Bill to establish new Defence Housing Service
- Recruits rejected on medical grounds 2024-26
- Armed Forces Day 27 June 2026
- HCDC Defence Committee endorses interim appointment of Polly Miller-Perkins as Armed Forces Commissioner
- The Renters' Rights Act: Unintended consequences?
- BAFF reorg 2026 (public)
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- Silence in the Ranks
- Recognition Campaign arrives in Parliament (2009)
- BAFF Parliamentary Reception 2009 - RACO presentation
- BAFF Parliamentary Reception 2009 - HKKF presentation
- Signal Summer 2009 - Right to Represent
- British Armed Forces Federation: Ready to Engage
- BAFF submission (March 2012) to the UK Government consultation on the conduct of a Scotland Referendum
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- Enough already! 'Andrew could lose Falklands medal'
- Why didn't the BAFF founders join CAFFUK instead?
- What to expect on arrival at Bulford Military Court Centre
- Keir Starmer 16/2/2025 on possible British troops to support peace in Ukraine
- Ukraine: Zelenskyy appoints Ombudsman for Military Personnel and Families
- Armed Forces Commissioner Bill: call for evidence
- Improving the offer for service personnel
- Incoming Labour government appoints Minister for Veterans and People
- Which new or returning MPs have served in the military?
- What did Labour say in their 2024 election manifesto about armed forces personnel and veterans?
- Stolen Valour aka Walts with campaign medals: should it be criminalised again?
- Vote 2024: The manifesto proposals for armed forces personnel representation or commissioner
- ARAP scheme - MOD now 'admits' that UK SF had a veto
- Vote 2024: What's in the party manifestos about armed forces personnel and veterans?
- Regular Forces Continuous Attitude Survey 2024 - morale down again
- New Accommodation Offer 'paused' for review in view of concerns
- New Accommodation Offer - See evidence submitted to the Defence Committee Inquiry
- 'Extraordinary scenes' as Veterans' Minister gives evidence at Independent Afghanistan Inquiry
- UKSF had 'complete veto' on ARAP applications by former Afghan SF
- Petition: Review the MOD's New Accommodation Offer for armed forces personnel
- The war on woke begins? - but beware unintended consequences in Defence
- Was the Army's instruction on the Act of Remembrance written out of ignorance, or distaste?
- HM Armed Forces Veteran Card now available to all UK veterans
- The ARAP Scheme and former members of the Afghan Special Forces who served with UK troops
- Cost of living crisis hits forces personnel and their families
- Armed Forces voters and the 2024 General Election
- RBL 'Credit their service' Campaign: How has your local authority responded?
- AFPRB to commence armed forces pay round 2024
- Labour leader pledges 'Armed Forces Commissioner' to represent armed forces and their families
- Military Covenant Report - Service personnel said to be represented by family federations
- Defence Committee Inquiry: Armed Forces Readiness
- Parliamentary Inquiry: Service Accommodation
- Military Trade Unions, Strike Breaking ... and Brussels!
- Call for Evidence: Women in the armed forces and female veterans (Follow-up)
- Defence personnel banned from responding to Service Housing inquiry: MOD decision "fundamentally wrong"
- 'Forces have no adequate way of raising their concerns and voicing their priorities'
- MOD accepts request for 'routine counterterrorism contingency support' to Met Police
- Armed forces pay review delayed yet again
- Defence Committee Inquiry: Withdrawal from Afghanistan: Government response published
- Petition: Review and enhance the rights of Service Family Accommodation (SFA) tenants
- UK 'Independent Inquiry relating to Afghanistan'
- 'Shocking state' of Wellington Barracks - story questioned
- The Passing of Her Majesty The Queen
- Afghanistan: Message from SSAFA
- MOD consultation on legal protections for personnel after serving overseas
- Defence Committee survey: Most armed forces women have faced bullying, harassment and discrimination
- Afghanistan: Message from CGRM
- Withdrawal from Afghanistan increases urgency of LES applications
- International Criminal Court closes inquiry into alleged British war crimes in Iraq
- 'Damning report' imminent on alleged LOAC breaches by Australian SF
- 'The closer people look at this legislation, the less they like it' - Overseas Operations Bill latest 2.11.2020
- BAFF gives evidence to Overseas Operations Bill Committee
- What does the Overseas Operations Bill actually say?
- Christmas 2018: Candles at Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery
- Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill
- Parliament: Have your say on the Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill
- Campaigns on behalf of former Locally Employed Civilians in Afghanistan
- FM Lord Guthrie: "Don't give wriggle room to torturers"
- The importance of time limits when making a complaint or claim
- Armed forces personnel and the 'right to strike'
- Never miss the opportunity to exploit a crisis!
- About online registration
- AFPRB 2019: 'Multi-year deals would not benefit the armed forces'
- Armed Forces Healthcare
- NEM Myth-busting 5 of 5: The changes to the model mean we are going to be paid less and our allowances are going to be stripped away whilst being asked to do more
- General Election 2017: the party manifestos on Defence
- Accessibility
- Veterans in prison and the criminal justice system
- NEM Myth-busting 1 of 5: Chief of Defence Personnel tries to calm fears about the New Employment Model by myth-busting or is it just plain 'spin'?
- NEM Myth-busting 4 of 5: The NEM will raise subsidised accommodation charges so much that they will be unaffordable
- NEM Myth-busting 3 of 5: The NEM will force Service personnel out of subsidised accommodation
- Bomber Command: 'Full Moon Tonight'
- The British General and the Bosnia 'Mutiny'
- 'What?' - General Election 2015
- NEM Myth-busting 2 of 5: The NEM is dramatically reducing the 'offer' to Service personnel and a career in the Armed Forces will no longer be worth it.
- Chilcot Iraq Inquiry: Key findings about service personnel welfare
- Chilcot report due, and ICC "could prosecute British soldiers but not politicians"
- Don't call our F&C soldiers 'foreign fighters'
- Involved in IHAT? Free initial legal advice available to BAFF members
- Personnel representation in Australian armed forces
- BAFF participates in EUROMIL meeting in Ireland
- Armed forces trade unions?
- 'Witch-hunt' now turning to British operations in Afghanistan (2016 article)
- AFPRB: personnel 'losing trust in their employer'
- Angry soldiers demand trade federation
- Free registration as a BAFF Military Supporter (CURRENTLY SUSPENDED)
- Iraq 'witch hunt': Public Interest Lawyers 'to close'
- 'Right of representation for troops will be in Lib Dem Defence Manifesto for 2015 General Election'
- IHAT reaction to PIL closure
- Representation in Action
- Review of the work of IHAT: Quality of claims "often very poor"
- UK 'to derogate from the ECHR in respect of operations' (2016 article)
- SSAFA report: The "forgotten generation" of working age veterans
- For BAFF members approached by inquiries such as Op Northmoor (2016 article)
- March 2007: 'Commonwealth soldiers form union'
- (Updated) Iraqi former local staff who came to UK - BBC radio Fri 28 Oct 11
- BAFF Ten Point Plan 2006
- MoD accepts rights of representation and association (if you happen to be gay)
- More about representation for Australian Defence Force personnel
- Anabolic steroids: "Don't risk your career over these banned substances"
- Outcome of CAFFUK trademark attempt to suppress BAFF
- BAFF newsletter 15.8.2013
- BAFF comment on the ADEFDROMIL and Messely ECHR decisions
- The "right of association" for service personnel: A view from Denmark
- 'Zero tolerance to banned sports supplements'
- General Election 2015 - Plaid Cymru support for an armed forces staff association
- Death as a result of active service - complete exemption from Inheritance Tax
- Human rights of members of the armed forces - Council of Europe recommendation (Introduction)
- Campaign for statutory recognition of a staff association for the British Armed Forces
- Human rights of members of the armed forces - Council of Europe recommendation (Text)
- Foreign and Commonwealth Citizens serving in UK Armed Forces
- General Election 2015 - Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) on defence and armed forces representation
- General Election 2015 - Labour Party record on forces personnel representation
- Pre-1975 service pensions
- BAFF: 'You can't treat service personnel like children'
- Human rights of armed forces personnel: BAFF participation in key international working group
- MoD now agrees with BAFF on human rights ruling
- Right of Association: French Defence Committee to question UK naval attache
- Do our troops mark the 'X'?
- General Election 2015: View the RUSI/Forces TV Defence Debate
- BAFF evidence on medical care for armed forces personnel and their families
- The Armed Forces Covenant - legally enforceable?
- General Election 2015: Lib Dems reaffirm support for service personnel representation
- General Election 2015: SNP manifesto pledge on armed forces representative bodies
- 2010 General Election: Attitudes of the political parties to representation for armed forces personnel
- Was administrative action taken against you as a result of a police caution beween Dec 2008 and Sep 2011?
- Defence Committee member and BAFF delegation discuss Armed Forces Federation with Defence Minister (2009)
- Brecon Beacons inquest: 'Too many investigations'? We don't think so
- 'Unreliable evidence' programme discusses Human Rights on the Battlefield
- 'Fighting for soldiers on the front line'
- 'WWII spy tortured by the Nazis died penniless after her war pension was halted without explanation'
- Armed Forces Pay Review Body (AFPRB) recommendations 2015
- Right of Association: French Defence Committee hear UK Naval Attache
- Work of the Service Complaints Commissioner: Conclusions of Defence Committee Inquiry
- Lord Craig of Radley: Cancel the Service Complaints Ombudsman legislation
- 'British Armed Forces Federation: Ready to Engage'
- BAFF Parliamentary Reception 20 May 2009
- Leakey VC braved Taliban fire three times to rescue US comrade
- Armed Forces Bill 2006: Lib Dems push for effective representation
- A Moral Obligation
- BAFF welcomes British Army bid to recruit more Muslims
- 'Myth-busting inquiry' delivers final report on former armed forces personnel in prison
- UK forces and the Lariam Legacy
- Bolton News: New research on 'Why ex-soldiers end up in prison'
- Combat Stress: More veterans seeking help with military PTSD
- Interpreter safety issue has been coming up again
- Taliban detainees covered by Human Rights Act - but not British soldiers
- French military to be allowed to form professional associations
- BAFF interview about the Military Covenant, pay, and Mr Cameron's pre-Xmas visit to Afghanistan
- Service Complaints Commissioner's 2nd annual report released (10 Mar 2010)
- BAFF and Army 2020
- Statement from HM The Queen following Scotland Referendum
- Review into women in ground combat roles published
- Tory: ECHR and its part in the downfall of "March in the guilty man" style of military justice
- New visa rules from 1 December for Foreign & Commonwealth citizens
- Britain's 'broken promises' to Afghan translators
- ECHR ruling on right of military personnel to join representative association
- Party conference season Autumn 2014: Defence and Veterans
- Armed Forces-related inquests
- More 'fury': Armed forces 'denied voice' in Scotland Referendum?
- US soldier's fight to bring translator to America
- Unconnected with BAFF: "The Servicemens Union"
- BAFF meet European colleagues in famous services club
- The Armed Forces and Legal Challenge
- Iraqi former local staff issue not going away
- Afghan interpreters: Should BAFF be prepared to comment?
- Defence Medical Services: Latest review finds 'significant improvements'
- Women 'to be allowed to serve in ground combat roles'
- BAFF strategy meeting in London
- More on 'Judges undermining military operations': interview with author
- Asylum move is hard to interpret
- Long-delayed justice for war widows is not retrospective - but MoD may 'have another look'
- Judges rulings 'undermining British military operations'
- BAFF Ten Point Plan for the Scottish independence referendum
- Defence Committee not happy with MOD Service Complaints Ombudsman proposals
- MPs concerned about military supply chain 'risks'
- Labour Party launches Shadow Defence Review
- Nimrod Review on the Military Covenant
- Legal challenge on terms of enlistment for under-18 recruits
- Baha Mousa inquiry report released
- Disabled Afghanistan veteran failed by service complaints system
- BAFF welcomes another party's decision to support right of representation
- Teaching resilience - Top US soldier on being captured in Iraq
- Land Warfare Conference 2020 speeches
- AFPRB 2015 - Treasury directions to Pay Review Body
- Soldier discharged for service-induced hearing injury but it's too trivial for compensation
- Armed Forces Compensation Scheme latest: Dodgy figures and a whispering campaign
- DWP bereavement benefits review will not affect payments under AFCS or War Pensions Scheme
- Look behind you - After 60 years, the last Panto at JHQ
- Armed Forces Compensation Scheme delays allegedly "down to compensation culture''
- MoneyExpert.com - How service personnel can improve their credit score
- New groin protection system for troops
- Redundancy: Can I appeal?
- Ofsted: Children of armed forces families need better support
- AGM endorses BAFF plan for Scottish Independence Referendum-related issues
- Good wishes for Duke of Edinburgh
- Combat Stress: Afghanistan and Iraq veterans set to pile pressure on health service
- New inquiry into 1994 Chinook crash confirmed
- ForcesNews: Debt woes hit forces pockets in Germany
- More help for forces personnel and veterans in Scotland
- Telegraph: 'Wounded soldiers to be forced out of the Army'
- Telegraph: Bus passes for injured troops as military covenant becomes law
- New Home Loan Scheme for Forces First Time Buyers
- Forces debt cases 'tip of iceberg' - but help is available
- Yorkshire Post: 'Domestic abuse soars as jobless soldiers return to civvy street'
- Defence Committee publishes report on Defence implications of possible Scottish Independence
- BAFF welcomes compensation boost for injured service personnel
- More than 5,000 Armed forces pensioners underpaid, admits MoD
- 'A Failure of Leadership, Culture and Priorities' - Nimrod report now available online
- MoD in Afghanistan Christmas donations plea
- Scots soldiers supposedly 'disenfranchised' in the referendum: The facts
- Military Casualties: Defence Committee Report
- Lib Dems: 'Give the Armed Forces the right to organise representation'
- Exhibition to honour foreign nationals who served in Battle of Britain
- Forces personnel urged to make proper wills
- Squaddies may sue over MOD slums
- Christmas mail to the troops
- Army Personnel Recovery Units (PRUs) Hazards of the Command Led Process and PRU Capacity
- MPs : Nimrod destruction and aircraft carrier delay have cost taxpayers more than £5 billion
- Personnel Recovery Units (PRUs) Hazards of the Command Led Process and PRU Capacity
- Ombudsman condemns MoD for 'disgraceful and unfair' treatment of wartime internees
- Losing Small Wars by Frank Ledwidge: review
- Admiral Chris Parry: Without agile, balanced Forces, we will be left behind in the world
- Soldier magazine: Criticisms of new Personal Clothing System (PCS)
- SNP to consider right of official representation for personnel of a Scottish Defence Force
- First woman to command major RN warship
- MOD Armed Forces Pension Calculator
- 'Bringing in Army to help with riots would be a step too far'
- Baha Mousa inquiry report about to be published
- CGS on The British Army Beyond Afghanistan
- Shake-up cuts Army, boosts TA and costs RAF an air base in Scotland
- SNP independence proposals regarding Service Personnel and Veterans
- Video of Military Covenant announcement in House of Commons
- TA soldiers 'at greater risk of mental health problems and alcohol abuse following operations'
- MP calls for armed forces pay rethink
- Secretary of State's statement on Armed Forces Covenant
- The BAFF line on Manning Control
- Lib Dems asked to recognise the right of representation for armed forces personnel
- Public sector pay freeze 'will apply to armed forces'
- MoD implements AFCS improvements recommended by Boyce Review
- Guardian : 'British tanks to be sent to Germany for storage so army can sell land in UK'
- Fair Treatment for WIS Complainants
- "Nuclear weapons are perfectly safe" - Veterans lose weapons test compensation bid
- Morale drop revealed by Armed Forces Continuous Attitude Survey
- Senior officers still relatively protected from cuts, claims Labour shadow minister
- Thank-you message from Baleiwai family
- Cuts in the Army 'creating gaps' and leaving soldiers 'unsettled and frustrated'
- MoD accused of risking soldiers' lives by silencing generals
- Are British soldiers ever covered by human rights on operations outside the base?
- Government rejects calls to protect armed forces pensions
- Defence Committee backs BAFF call for Armed Forces Ombudsman
- Service charities say Wounded soldiers face 'postcode lottery' of care:
- Labour names new shadow defence team
- Military Covenant: Dr Fox sets out 'enhanced services for the military'
- Sweeping troop cuts on the way
- Wounded Injured and Sick Personnel
- Plymouth MP brands cuts to Armed Forces' benefits 'evil'
- Debate on Security Implications of an Independent Scotland
- BAFF submits written evidence to Armed Forces Bill Committee
- Recruitment of young people: BAFF evidence to Armed Forces Bill Committee 2011
- Return of the brown envelope part 2: 'War heroes to be axed in army cull'
- Telegraph: 'Army warns David Cameron on cuts to servicemen's school fees'
- Service wives win unfair dismissal protection overseas
- New row over MP access to defence personnel
- Armed Forces Compensation Scheme 'infected' by compensation culture - Response by BAFF Chairman
- Lord West claims covenant announcement possible 'smokescreen' for new cuts
- Service complaints system: 'Still inefficient and undermining confidence in the chain of command'
- Inquiry into the work of the Service Complaints Commissioner - Call for 'root and branch reform' of AGAI 67
- Victory on settlement rules for F&C citizens with minor disciplinary convictions
- More details released of university funding for children of fallen personnel
- Soldiers' relatives win right to sue MoD
- Forces Pension Society: MoD pension management 'poor form'
- University scholarships for children of Armed Forces casualties, education scheme for service leavers expanded
- Inquiries into deaths of military personnel can now be held in Scotland
- Rumour mongers at it again: "I've just heard some really shocking news..."
- New ministerial team at MoD
- Do you have property managed by Blueforces Property Ltd?
- Seeds of recovery at Headley Court
- Army Legal: Be wary of loans in Germany
- The return of the RGBW memorials to Gorazde
- Former soldier wins MoD payout over PTSD diagnosis and treatment failures
- New Employment Model: MoD denies 'Families to lose homes' story
- Number 10: Military Covenant to be enshrined in law
- BAFF reactions to reported retention of body parts
- Soldiers' body parts retained (BritishForcesNews)
- Linda Gilroy MP Visits HMS Raleigh
- British Forces Germany: Facing a future of cuts
- Scotland independence referendum consultation closes 11 May
- The future's dim - The future's blue?
- Women to serve aboard RN submarines from 2013
- Reserve liability after redundancy?
- Armed Forces Pay Review Body (AFPRB) report 2012 published
- Olympics: '20,000 military personnel could be needed'
- Tories: 'service personnel feeling under-equipped and undervalued'
- Tales of the unexpected
- Scottish referendum - BAFF's position and how to have your say in the consultations
- Olympics: Security firm 'do not underestimate impact on military personnel and families'
- CEA: 'SAS Colonel quits Army after education perk that lets Forces children go to top boarding schools is axed'
- Thinking of applying for redundancy? Make sure you consult!
- Future Reserves 2020 (FR20) - video message from VCDS
- Mirror: 'Ten troops a day suffer mental health problems in fight against Taliban'
- Queen's Birthday Parade 2012
- New service pension scheme from April 2015
- AWOL (Absent Without Leave)
- PM: Military Covenant to be given force of law
- BAFF mentioned in Armed Forces Bill debate
- Scotsman: 'Backlash over MOD super-barracks plan'
- Commonwealth contribution to the British Armed Forces
- Future Reserves 2020 Study (FR20) Final Report
- Chinook Mull of Kintyre crash review findings about to be announced
- With alcohol being the debate of the week, how much does it affect the forces?
- Defence Secretary: 'We owe troops honesty and certainty'
- Radar Commission Report (Germany) - radar exposure and sickness
- Continuity of Education Allowance (CEA) update
- Cuts may render armed forces 'unable to deliver'
- Former military chiefs call on Government to reconsider cuts to Armed Forces
- Gulf War 1990-91: Charities warn that British veterans are 'still suffering' 20 years on
- BAFF reactions to Baha Mousa Inquiry
- FR20: 'Britain needs a citizen army to fight its wars'
- Telegraph: Philip Hammond warned that military is 'critically ill'
- Scottish independence impact on armed forces
- Future Reserves 2020 (FR 20): Armed Forces 'should recruit more part-time soldiers'
- MOD announces changes to allowances for Service personnel
- Belfast Telegraph: NI Assembly 'split over military perks'
- MoD: We are working people harder but there is no overstretch
- 'Ex-service personnel fast-tracked for council housing'
- Injured soldiers train as cowboys to regain confidence
- BAFF quoted in latest reporting about the Military Covenant
- Combat Stress: Half of GPs unaware of official guidelines on how to diagnose veterans' PTSD
- Troops to get more stress support on return home
- Problems for NHS doctors serving in the reserve forces
- Defence Committee in new criticisms of SDSR
- Text of BAFF evidence on medical care
- Mirror: David Cameron 'broke 10 pledges to troops'
- Human rights law applicability to British forces overseas - Gurkha inquest concluded
- Increased support for reserve forces members who are employees of NHS Scotland
- Results of new study into number of former service personnel on probation
- New guidance for GPs on health care for veterans
- BAFF and the Scottish independence referendum
- Forces Pension Society: Covenant Task Force report 'incredibly wet and feeble'
- British Army advised US on repeal of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’
- Women 'will be allowed to serve on Royal Navy submarines for the first time'
- Does human rights law apply to British forces overseas?
- Early Day Motion - Veterans in the Criminal Justice System
- Government to 'rebuild' covenant
- MPs: War veterans should be helped to adjust to civilian life
- Government wins appeal against soldiers' human rights
- Jackson: Baha Mousa death 'a stain on army's character'
- The Military Covenant and the Human Rights of armed forces personnel: Two sides of the same coin
- Government claims that giving soldiers human rights in war zones ‘will hamper battlefield commanders’
- From hero to zero
- Wandsworth Council social housing allocation policy 'to favour armed forces'
- Human rights and the 'duty of care' during operations
- MoD lodge appeal against armed forces human rights decision
- Mail: 'Soldiers face longer tours in Afghanistan because of savage cuts to troop numbers'
- Armed Forces Continuous Attitude Survey 2011
- OSCE handbook on human rights of armed forces personnel
- Operational Allowance increased
- Bishops: Government must not betray its moral duty to troops
- Media: 'Army units to be disbanded before end of Afghan campaign'
- Telegraph: 'Cream of officers bail out of RAF'
- Telegraph: 'Returning troops to jump the housing queue'
- FR20 announcement imminent: 'Thousands of regular soldiers could be sacked to boost the role of the reserves'
- BAFF: 'What we cannot condone is a fishing expedition by the Iraq Historic Allegations Team (IHAT) in which service personnel are asked to inform on each other'
- Fox: RAF will not merge with other services
- Ministry of Defence 'getting worse at caring for Armed Forces personnel'
- Defence basing review: decision delayed until Thursday?
- Former top brass: Armed forces 'on the brink'
- BBC News: RAF Lossiemouth and RAF Leuchars news 'could be imminent'
- British Forces News reports on RMAS passing out parade
- Debt recovery from MOD
- A healthy start to Nicks new career
- New information note on policing riots, legal powers of military personnel
- S Telegraph: Defence chiefs cut bonus payments to military bands
- 'Generals warn that TA is not fit for new role'
- BAFF spokesman on Iraq Historic Allegations inquiry
- London riots: 'Army should be last resort, say experts'
- Armed Forces Bill completes its consideration in Commons
- Lord Levene's review causing 'consternation' amongst senior officers
- Liam Fox: Libya crisis shows why we're right on defence reform
- BAFF comments on case of reserve soldier who 'could face murder charge' over Afghan shooting
- Injured troops to get priority NHS care for life
- Sunday Telegraph: 'Army facing huge cuts after withdrawal from Afghanistan'
- MoD cites spending cuts in row over pension changes for armed forces
- Independent on Sunday: 'A soldier writes from Afghanistan'
- Chinook crash: Review team members announced
- Telegraph: 'Security threat warning over MoD police cuts'
- Health fears for returning soldiers: 'Reservists at special risk'
- (Updated) Fleet Ready Escort: 'We are doing the best with what we have got'
- Telegraph: 'Army's 400 main battle tanks may be cut to 50'
- Major Scottish veterans' charity having to cut back
- BAFF welcomes change of policy in response to representations on recruitment of under-18s
- Sweeping NATO HQ changes - AMCC Northwood retained
- 'I am a serving officer in Her Majesty’s Armed Forces'
- Fox: Multiple potential prosecutions over leaks
- Defence Academy project at St Athan scrapped (termination of the Defence Training Review)
- French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle off Libya
- Parliamentary Human Rights Committee raises reservations about Armed Forces Bill
- Nimrod Review: Haddon-Cave calls for a New Personnel Strategy
- Rugby: Army win back a year's bragging rights from the Royal Navy
- Guardian: 'What the armed forces can expect from the defence review'
- Social Housing: Service Personnel now able to establish Local Connection
- Uncertain future for UK's amphibious forces
- Good luck to our team on Saturday!
- Sign the petition on behalf of L/Cpl Bale Balewai
- 'Mothball' huge chunks of the Army, says 'top Parliamentary adviser'
- Sun: RAF course to beat fear of flying
- Think tank: Our most devastating weapon is agility
- Telegraph: 'Navy to reduce to smallest size ever to save carriers'
- Mail: 'Fighting the Taliban? Make sure you have ironed your uniform, our boys are told'
- Bomber Command Memorial to be unveiled on Thursday 28 June
- MOD 90 to be accepted as proof of age in pubs
- SDSR: British Armed Forces to be replaced by the A-Team
- Armed Forces Bill - Select Committee publishes its Report
- Repatriation ceremonies to be relocated to RAF Brize Norton
- New Defence Committee Inquiry: The Work of the Service Complaints Commissioner
- Cuts: 'Armed forces to lose one in four of their lawyers'
- Duchess of Cornwall meets deploying chaplains
- Fox: UK will still need global force post-Afghanistan
- Guardian: BFBS to be put out to tender
- Defence spending: Thousands of service personnel to be cut
- Thinktank: Royal Navy in severe and dangerous decline
- Telegraph: Gen Sir Richard Dannatt reveals 'perfect storm' of political incompetence and inter-service rivalries
- Armed Forces Bill: Groups urge Parliament to end UK's recruitment of 'child soldiers'
- British officer corps to be cut back
- Inquests for Service personnel – jurisdiction and recent developments
- Fox: 'We need to ensure we are using our people to the best of their ability'
- Armed Forces Bill: MoD 'will politicise' covenant
- SDSR: Massive job cuts in armed forces, UK to give up role as major military power
- Armed Forces Bill presented in House of Commons
- SNP: Scotland’s troops ‘being betrayed’
- BNP accused of muscling in on campaign for wounded soldier
- Will the Government come to the defence of an Iraq war hero?
- Geoff Hoon 'denied Iraq soldiers equipment that could have saved lives'
- The perfect present for the walt in your life - The Official ARRSE Guide to the British Army, by Major Des Astor
- The Military Covenant
- Welsh Affairs Committee launches new inquiry into services for veterans in Wales
- Army Obesity Study: Half of British soldiers are obese or overweight
- Think tank: More bang for the buck
- 6,000 forces personnel will help guard Olympics
- Wounded Scottish veterans to get bus travel permits
- Armed Forces Muslim chaplain explains how personnel cope during Ramadan
- Armed Forces Pay Review Body to be retained
- MPs critical of Afghanistan mistakes
- Defence policy: New wars for old
- NOTW: HMS Liverpool makes history
- Sunday Mirror: 'Bomb disposal hero was the only one of six comrades to return from Afghanistan '
- Baha Mousa Inquiry report out shortly - 'British Army cleared of systematic abuse'
- Served in Iraq between 2003 and 2009? Chilcot wants to hear from you
- Sunday Mirror: Minister tells maimed war hero Ben Parkinson: 'You would have got more compensation if you'd been blown up twice'
- Express: War widow says she's been let down by Government
- Armed forces allowances to be slashed - Telegraph
- Portsmouth News: Navy ready to let female sailors serve in submarines
- British Legion accuses David Cameron over 'U-turn on pledge to war heroes'
- Nimrod squadron to disband in Guernsey
- Reunited - a Polish pilot and his Spitfire
- Help pledged for service families
- Armed forces compensations scheme – a soldier's view
- BA to recruit ex-forces pilots
- Wartime fighter commander's statue unveiled in London
- Honorary Lieutenant (QGO) Tulbahadur Pun VC
- Armed forces related inquests, legal representation and human rights
- From the Labour Party conference speeches
- Iraq Inquiry: Last minute planning caused body armour shortage
- Quiet sense of purpose in Afghanistan
- BAFF Chairman: Troop cuts 'will affect front line morale'
- (UPDATED) Scottish Referendum - Debate on participation of Scottish armed forces personnel
- Lib Dem MP calls for a fair deal for our forces
- Lib Dems debate Reaffirming the Military Covenant
- 'The can-do culture stays calm and just cracks on'
- Armed forces policy on medical conditions such as diabetes
- BAFF Chairman says ill informed criticism of human rights ruling could lead to dangerous confusion
- Commentators: No place for human rights in heat of battle
- 'Please don't send unsolicited Christmas mail to the troops'
- BAFF refutes claims that armed forces majority supports English Defence League (EDL)
- Revamp at RAF Brize Norton
- Remains of British Burma and Korean War fighter ace handed over by North Korea
- Independent: Ex-soldier James Blunt 'in war of words' with RAF after 'morale-boosting trip' cancelled
- Human remains found in S Korea could be soldier of the Glorious Glosters
- Sun: 'Soldiers off to the frontline in Afghanistan have been freezing their sperm in case they are killed or maimed'
- Service voters archive
- Commonwealth or Irish citizen - voting in a UK Election?
- Service Personnel: Are you registered to vote?
- More about registration and voting arrangements for personnel in Afghanistan
- Electoral Commission: '1 in 5 members of the armed forces could lose their vote at the May elections'
- 'Service personnel encouraged to exercise their right to vote '
- EU referendum: last chance to register to vote
- Soldiers urged to sign up to voting register
- Voting arrangements for troops on 5 May
- MoD response: Votes for Service Personnel (22 Mar 2010)
- Minister speaks on service personnel voting from Afghanistan
- Internet voting, still in beta, says US newspaper
- One-third of armed forces have no vote
- General Election 2015: Efforts to ensure forces personnel overseas can vote
- Another parliamentary question about voting by armed forces personnel
- Urgent: Are you registered to vote?
- Voting reminder for armed forces
- Make sure everyone in your household is registered to vote
- News about postal votes for service voters in the EU referendum
- Electronic voting for service voters
- Service voter registration period extended from 3 to 6 years
- Have all service personnel been given all the information to ensure they can cast their vote?
- General Election 2015: Proxy vote can still be arranged in certain emergencies
- Electoral Fraud Review and service voters
- 2012 Elections: Serving personnel encouraged to register to vote
- Deadlines pass but you can still apply for a proxy vote until 28 April
- Postal voting has begun - Please take care with the paperwork
- General Election 2015: Voting arrangements squared away?
- National Voter Registration Day: Campaign launched to boost Armed Forces’ voter registration
- General Election 2015 - info about voter registration and voting
- Referendum 'Vote rigging' conspiracy theories: The facts
- PM asked for assurances that troops overseas can vote in the General Election
- Where in the UK should I register as a service voter?
- Independent: 'Thousands of Afghanistan troops face missing election vote'
- Are you registered to vote? Annual registration drive gets under way
- Teenage children of service families overseas to vote in Scottish independence referendum
- Update on service voting overseas
- Final Countdown to the Scotland Independence Referendum: Are you registered to vote?
- Thousands lose chance to vote due to volcano - but exception made for troops in Afghanistan
- Planning for troops' postal voting from Afghanistan revealed in Parliament
- Enhanced postal voting arrangements from Afghanistan
- Polling day latest: Voting from Afghanistan
- More BAFF interviews about service voting in General Election 2010
- Scottish referendum - Which service voters should be able to take part?
- New electoral legislation 'will help service voters'
- Polling day latest (2): Cautious optimism over troops' postal votes
- Polling day latest (3): The figures for postal voting from Afghanistan
- Thousands of forces voters could again miss out on the chance to vote
- BAFF calls for fair deal for service voters in the Scotland independence referendum
- Think you are registered to vote? Think again
- Why do some service personnel fail to vote?
- Service voting: Government proposal to extend UK parliamentary election timetable
- 'Forces need fairer votes’ says Lib Dem hopeful
- 'Fighting for the votes of Army wives'
- Armed forces prevented from voting (2009)
- Government delays vote on Armed Forces Bill
- Another fall in the number of registered service voters in Scotland
- BAFF and armed forces voting featured again in the media
- Scottish independence referendum - Implications for service voters?
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