Training of troops involved in an operation which led to the death of the first female British soldier in Afghanistan and the death of a Kidderminster soldier was inadequate, a has coroner ruled.Read
Hundreds of soldiers who took part in some of the fiercest fighting ever seen in Helmand Province will parade through their home towns in the Midlands this week.Read
An increasing number of injured soldiers are being treated at Birmingham’s Selly Oak Hospital as the conflict in Afghanistan intensifies. Phil Vinter visits the military ward to find out how medics are coping.Read
A woman from Staffordshire, whose soldier son was killed in Iraq, has accused Gordon Brown of evading the questions in his evidence to the Chilcot Inquiry.Read
The mother of a soldier killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq has slammed the Government for its failure to call an inquiry into the use of vulnerable Snatch Land Rovers.Read
Troops in Afghanistan had to ask for mine detection training and practised in a "sand pit", an inquest into the death of a soldier from Kidderminster heard.Read
A special forces soldier told an inquest that he believed a vehicle he was in was “not adequate for the job” after it struck a roadside bomb, causing the first female casualty in Afghanistan.Read
A coroner has questioned the equipment, training and mine detection drills in the run up to the death of a soldier from Kidderminster and three of his comrades in Afghanistan.Read
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