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The Government has abandoned a pledge to maintain the size of the Regular Army at 82,000 and will let it dwindle to 73,000 - making it the smallest Army for 300 years.

The visit comes after the British Army said a small number of soldiers have gone absent without leave and may have travelled to Ukraine.

Sir Patrick, who is set to take over from June, said he is ‘deeply honoured’ by the appointment.

Private Thamir Mbarushimana was found dead on railway tracks in his hometown in south Manchester, on February 6 - he was based at the Infantry Training Centre at the British Army's Catterick Garrison near Richmond, North Yorks.

Catterick Garrison, the largest Armed Forces base in the UK, is home to over 13,000 personnel and it is where several units, including the Yorkshire Regiment and the 4 Scots Highlanders, call home

The request concerns a total of eight bronze objects within the city's civic collection which have been identified to the sacking of Benin City by the British Army in 1897.

It's 50 years since 13 people were shot dead when members of the British Army’s Parachute Regiment opened fire on civil rights demonstrators in Derry

Mass shooting of Catholic demonstrators in Derry by British paratroopers, perhaps the defining episode of the Troubles, remembered 50 years on

At its heart, Bloody Sunday was a devastating personal tragedy involving the deaths of 13 men and boys, six of whom were only 17 years old. The victims were taking part in a civil rights protest march against internment. In 30 minutes, 21 soldiers from the British Army’s parachute regiment…