An RAF radar station on Britain's most northerly inhabited island is to be mothballed, it has been confirmed. Saxa Vord on Unst will close "in all but name", the Ministry of Defence has said.

An RAF station has barred its staff from wearing their uniforms in public after abuse from locals over the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Airmen and women from RAF Wittering, Cambs, have also been ...

Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon said he cannot guarantee that a Staffordshire RAF station will stay open, despite praising its good work. A 5,000-signature petition to save the RAF station from closure ...

A wartime RAF station control tower is to be converted into a bed and breakfast. The plan to transform the old Second World War building in Norfolk is the brainchild of Nigel Morter and his wife ...

I was in the RAF from 1939, when I was l9 years old, until the War was over in 1946. I worked on a Fixing Station (this was used before there was Radar) - I was at RAF Colerne, Sometimes I worked ...

But now the RAF has admitted it has turned-off its transmitters because parts of the mast are corroding. Now it will not be until at least the middle of next year before the station is operational ...

The station then closed as an operating base and was used as a relief landing ground for RAF Scampton before being sold off for development in the 1990s. In the 1980s, 54 homes were built on the ...

Cawdor Barracks in Pembrokeshire, formerly known as RAF Brawdy, will be the site of the UK’s newest long range satellite-tracking radar station. Known as the Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability ...

I was in the RAF from 1939, when I was l9 years old, until the War was over in 1946. I worked on a Fixing Station (this was used before there was Radar) - I was at RAF Colerne, Sometimes I worked ...