The aircraft carrier will sail from Portsmouth Naval Base on April 22 as head of a carrier strike group made up of warships and supply ships before heading firstly to the Mediterranean for security ...

A burst sewer pipe, which closed a major route through Bicester, was also repaired on Friday. A Thames Water spokesperson said: "Our engineers have now repaired the broken sewer pipe on the B4100 ...

Planning permission was granted for the development in north west Bicester by Cherwell District Council in June 2024. The 1,800sqft building on Skimmingdish Lane, opposite Wyndham Hall Care ...

The colossus HMS Dreadnought will be Britain's largest and most complex submarine, and is set to inherit the country's nuclear Trident missiles. Sir Keir Starmer formally laid the keel for the ...

The Thames Valley Police forensics centre in Bicester will house state-of-the-art laboratories and become the base for crime scene investigations, fingerprint, digital and drugs analysis teams.

The Royal Navy has hit the global illegal drugs network after frigate HMS Lancaster seized £5,4m of Class A drugs in the Middle East. The Royal Navy has struck a £5.4m hit to drug traffickers after ...

HMS Ledbury, a Hunt-class minehunter commissioned in June 1981, travelled past The Round Tower in Old Portsmouth this morning (March 13). Naval enthusiasts took pictures of the vessel as she ...

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A Royal Navy warship has shadowed a Russian task group as it sailed through the English Channel and the North Sea. HMS Somerset kept watch over the Russian corvette Boikiy for three days as it ...

A NEW link between Oxfordshire and HMS Diamond has been formed. The affiliation was confirmed at a ceremony at Blenheim Palace on Tuesday, February 25. Senior naval officers, including past commanders ...

An Oxfordshire town needs the "necessary infrastructure" if it is to grow further, says the MP. Calum Miller, MP for Bicester and Woodstock, is calling for reassurance from the Government that the ...