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YORK looks set to lose its status as a major Army Division headquarters - several years before Imphal barracks was originally due to close.
YORK looks set to lose its status as a major Army Division headquarters - several years before Imphal barracks was originally due to close.
IT took eight days to bring all 300 men and women of 2 Signal Regiment home from the front line in Afghanistan earlier this year, the Ministry of Defence has revealed. The regiment, which is based at Imphal Barracks, Fulford, York, formally handed over their work in the war-torn country on January 15, the same day on which the first soldiers flew back to the UK. But some fellow York soldiers had to wait until January 22. Military operations minister Nick Harvey, responding to a written parliamentary question by York Central MP Hugh Bayley, said it was standard practice for units to stag...