The wife of British Royal Marine Alexander Blackman, who fatally shot an injured Taliban fighter in Afghanistan, has spoken of her joy at the prospect of him coming home in a few weeks.

A Royal Marine has admitted hoarding explosives and making bombs for a Northern Ireland-related terror attack.

A British Royal Marine has appeared in court charged with Northern Ireland-linked terror offences.

Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime.

Police are searching a country park in the North as part of a terrorism investigation which prompted the arrest of a British Royal Marine.

A Royal Marine is being questioned by UK detectives investigating Northern Ireland-linked terrorism, understood to be connected to two major dissident republican arms finds.

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Director Sam Taylor-Johnson was left red-faced after police were called to her home when a passer-by spotted a machine gun on a desk inside the house.

The BBC has postponed a planned documentary about naked rambler Stephen Gough after his arrest for breaching an anti-social behaviour order (Asbo) that bans him from baring all in public.

The “Naked Rambler” has been jailed for 11 months in the UK after being found guilty of breaching an anti-social behaviour order (Asbo) banning him from being naked in public just minutes after it was imposed.

More than 200 people braved freezing temperatures to attend the funeral of a man they didn't know in England today.

David Cameron has said he is confident that security preparations for the London Olympics are on schedule.

A Royal Marine Commando today abseiled with the Olympic flame into the Tower of London.

A British Royal Marine Commando will abseil with the Olympic flame into the Tower of London today.

Two Welsh tourists who broke into an Australian theme park and stole a penguin following a drunken night out have each been fined AUS$1,000 (€786).

Olympic fencer and movie sword master Bob Anderson, who fought Darth Vader’s light sabre battles and appeared in some of Hollywood’s most famous duelling scenes, has died at 89.

A member of the Royal Air Force who was injured in the same explosion which killed a Royal Marine in Afghanistan has died of his injuries, Britain's Ministry of Defence (MoD) said.

Cheryl Cole is planning to return to Afghanistan to visit the soldier she met on her previous trip to the war torn country.

Cheryl Cole's British soldier wants to take her to dinner as soon as his tour of duty ends.

Cheryl Cole has made a secret trip to Afghanistan to boost troops' morale.

A British Royal Marine has been killed by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan.

LONG confined as a footnote in Irish history, the role of the 49,400 Irish soldiers who fought and died in the First World War has finally been restored to the spotlight.

A British security worker jailed for life for murdering two colleagues in Iraq is threatening to take his own life, his family said today.

A FORMER contestant in Lord Sugar’s hit TV programme The Apprentice was given a suspended sentence for fraud yesterday.

A former contestant in Alan Sugar’s UK hit 'The Apprentice' TV series was given a suspended sentence for fraud today.

One of Alan Sugar’s 'Apprentice' contestants in the UK is on police bail after being arrested on suspicion of fraud, it emerged today.

A WOMAN branded “Britain’s most disgusting person” walked out of court yesterday before she could be sentenced for urinating on a cenotaph.

Five US troops were killed in new Afghan attacks today following yesterday's Taliban assault in Kandahar.

A rogue Afghan soldier was being hunted today after he killed three British troops and wounded another four.

A Royal Marine has been killed in a blast in Sangin in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said today.

BRITAIN announced its 300th death in Afghanistan yesterday, prompting Prime Minister David Cameron to pledge he will withdraw troops as soon as the war-torn state can handle its own security.

QUEEN Elizabeth II led Britain’s annual ceremony for the country’s war dead yesterday, honouring them with a moment of silence as the military reported the 200th British soldier killed in combat in Afghanistan.

POLITICIANS, military chiefs, relatives and hundreds of strangers bade farewell yesterday to Henry Allingham, the world’s oldest man and one of Britain’s last survivors of World War I.

Michael Caine is back on the streets of London with a gun in his hand, filming a new thriller.

A British marine was killed in southern Afghanistan on Christmas Eve, the Ministry of Defence in the UK said today.

Oscar-winner Helen Mirren revisited her role as British royalty when she was invited to officially name the UK's biggest ever cruise liner at a ceremony in Southampton, England, on Wednesday.

A bodyguard who protected Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Fayed in the days before their fatal car crash was left frustrated after his calls for extra security help were turned down, an inquest heard.

WORLD CUP winner Lawrence Dallaglio has been backed to “deliver for England” when they defend the Webb Ellis Trophy in France next month.