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The following article is from Defence News - 27th May 2009

Navy's last surviving Falklands warship retires

The last surviving operational Royal Navy warship which took part in the Falklands conflict of 1982, HMS Exeter, retired from service today, Wednesday 27 May 2009.

HMS Exeter at sea
[Picture: MOD]

The Portsmouth-based ship destroyed four Argentine aircraft - two Skyhawks and [...]

Ex-soldiers from the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment paraded through Exeter today in commemoration of the formation of the regiment on 17th May 1958.  Fortunately the bad weather which had been forecast did not appear during the parade. The men marched from the Civic Centre to the Corn Exchange led by the band of The Rifles, the route lined with [...]

Article reproduced from the Spring 2009 edition of "The Guards Magazine, Journal of the Household Division" which arrived with us this week.

Changing the Guards

Defence budget tightens its belt and hits the historic red tunics of the Household Division's Foot Guards

Uniformity is the name of the game across the Household Division - its official. In a [...]

The Massed Bands of the Royal Marines will perform their world-renowned Beating Retreat ceremony on London's Horse Guards Parade in celebration of the 88th birthday of their Captain General, the Duke of Edinburgh, over three evenings in June.

The spectable is only performed one every three years. RM Bands from Portsmouth, Plymouth, Scotland and CTCRM Lympstone [...]

Navy Days returns to Plymouth in 2009.  The Royal Marines will be conducting a "rescue" on the river, a substantial air display will take place to celebrate 100 years of naval aviation, the RN Raiders parachute display team will be dropping in and there will be an exhibition celebrating the future Navy - HMS Astute [...]