Blackpool to host Veterans' Day
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Blackpool is to play host to National Veterans' Day on 27 June beating off stiff competition.
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Blyth Valley Council is to apply to have Blyth and Seaton Sluice beaches included in the Quality Coast awards scheme run by national environment charity ENCAMS.
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AN independently-funded inquiry called yesterday for the Ministry of Defence to compensate up to 6000 British veterans of the 1991 Gulf war for &quot;damaged health&quot; as a result of their service.
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Buckhingham Palace will be partly transformed into a caravan park on Monday, in a celebration dedicated to the portable holiday homes.
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So, Thursday was Veterans Day, and Americans across the country used the day off to honor those who have served to protect our freedoms.
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The funeral of a 'promising' officer who was the 100th serviceman to die in action in Iraq will be held in Hove.
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Snow is expected to strike many parts of Britain as a ferry runs aground on Blackpool beach.
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The MoD is ready to pay Â£3m compensation to veterans of Porton Down nerve gas tests, the BBC learns.
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Doctors and patients are travelling to Manchester for tests which a hospital says could be carried out in Bangor.
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Veterans rode in tanks down Allen Parkway in a parade headed for downtown honoring and celebrating the city&#39;s military veterans.
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A major parade is to be held to mark the disbandment of the Royal Irish Regiment's home service battalions.
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They are foreign enemies buried thousands of miles from home, but they are not forgotten. Less than a week after U.S. soldiers were honored during Veterans Day, dignitaries on Wednesday are to gather and salute the hundreds of thousands of German prisoners of war taken to camps in the United States during World War II &#151; most of them in the South.
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People across Wales are set to mark Armistice Day on Thursday, paying tribute to the servicemen and women who died for their country.
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Servicemen and women who died in wars are remembered across Wales on Remembrance Sunday.
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Services to remember the dead of two world wars and other conflicts are held across Northern Ireland.
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This should be a time for Solidarity veterans to savor.
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The 25th anniversary of the Falkland Islands' liberation will be marked by events in the UK and south Atlantic.