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Share this article SALISBURY, England, March 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Royal Mint and Ploughshare Innovations are pleased to announce a new collaboration that will enable industry to access The Royal Mint's unique innovations. Best known for making coins and medals, The Royal Mint's expertise also includes a range of overt and covert anti-counterfeiting technologies that are utilised in many of their products. For the first time, innovations such as The Royal Mint's "High Security Feature" will be available for other organisations to benefit from. Commenting on this latest collaboration,...

8 March 2021 With the theme for this year’s International Women’s Day (8 March) being “Choose to Challenge”, we focus on the ongoing challenge to improve representation of women in the Ministry of Defence Police ( MDP) and more widely in UK armed policing roles. This year marks the MDP’s 50th anniversary, having been first established in October 1971. At that time there were no female police officers in the force. It was not until 1974 that 2 female sergeants transferred into the MDP from Strathclyde Police. The first 4 female recruits then started their training in 1975. The MDP...

Replacing Trident could take the UK-US 'special relationship' to "new heights" image captionHMS Vigilant UK cooperation with the United States on nuclear weapons has reached "new heights", with the new warhead for the Trident missile, BBC Newsnight has learned. The cooperation extends not just to the design of the new device, but to British lobbying in Washington for funding for the new weapon, known as W93, in order to protect the project from cuts favoured by those on the left of President Joseph Biden's Democratic party. Last year, the UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace wrote to a key cong...

news Replacing Trident could take UK-US cooperation to "new heights" UK cooperation with the United States on nuclear weapons has reached "new heights", with the new warhead for the Trident missile, BBC Newsnight has learned. The cooperation extends not just to the design of the new device, but to British lobbying in Washington for funding for the new weapon, known as W93, in order to protect the project from cuts favoured by those on the left of President Joseph Biden's Democratic party. Last year, the UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace wrote to a key congressional committee urging it to fund...

“We continue to support a sustainable settlement at Grazeley.” RBC hopes the plans will help it to meet its housing needs. But the development proposals recently suffered a major blow after developers’ legal challenge against West Berkshire Council’s decision to extend an emergency planning zone failed. The site in Grazeley, which is around one mile from Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) Burghfield, had been earmarked for a huge ‘garden town’ but the project has been thrown into doubt. That’s because in March 2020, West Berkshire Council extended the Detailed Emergenc...