A Northern Ireland-based missile company has won a British Ministry of Defence contract which will secure more than 80 jobs, it was announced today.

Britain, France and Norway have placed a £47m (€39m) order with Rolls Royce for a high-tech international rescue system to help crews escape from sunken submarines.

THE body of the Irish soldier killed in Iraq with the British Army, Lance Corporal Ian Keith Malone, was flown back along with six other bodies to a British air base yesterday.

The only realistic explanation for the RAF Chinook helicopter disaster on the Mull of Kintyre in June 1994, in which 29 people died, was the finding of pilots’ negligence reached by the reviewing officers of the RAF Board of Inquiry, the House of Lords was told today.

Heavily armed Land Rovers used by the Royal Marines in their war on terror in Afghanistan are to be the stars of Europe’s biggest military vehicle show today.