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Chris Evans' Mystery Guest is Wg Cdr Andy Turk

Wg Cdr Andy Turk who flew back into RAF Marham with other Tornado's of IX Sqn was on the Chris Evans Breakfast Show this morning as Chris' Mystery Guest. It was the fab photograph that appeared all over the media as the most wonderful welcome home anyone could receive from his two young sons that got him there. Andy said: "I didn't know it was going to happen, I thought they would be at school

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Typhoon Crews now in Malaysia

Four RAF Typhoon aircraft from Number 6 Sqn have flown from their base in Scotland to the Royal Malaysian Air Force airbase in Butterworth, Malaysia to take part in Ex BERSAMA LIMA 11. Defence Secretary Philip Hammond who is also out there said: “I am delighted we were able to deploy Typhoon for the duration of this Five Powers Defence Agreement exercise. Following my discussions with the other FPDA members

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Ghost of Nigger still thought to pad around RAF Scampton

A story is circulating that the ghost of Wg Cdr Guy Gibson's dog Nigger still pads around RAF Scampton. The story of Nigger is immortalised in the film of 'The Dam Busters'. Guy Gibson led the Dambuster raid to destroy dams of the Ruhr on the night of Sun 16 May 43. Just before the crews left Scampton his faithful black Labrador was run over and killed. Now paranormal investigators have picked up readings

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RAF FF Chairman warns Government that Service personnel are Hurting

A Local Government Association Conference has been held in London to discuss the Armed Forces Community Covenant. The Community Covenant is a voluntary statement of mutual support between a civilian community and its local Armed Forces. Twenty-one local councils have already signed up and it was the hope of the Armed Forces Minister, Andrew Robathan that following the event many more would also sign up. Following the Ministers address, what was questioned by the Chairman of the RAF Families Federation was the appetite for such an initiative in the light of all that the Armed Forces was going through. Dawn said to the Minister: "Families are hurting and actually the Covenant doesn't mean a great deal to those who have just received a redundancy notice

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Irritation at CEA posted on Facebook

A member of Facebook has posted a piece on the RAF Families Federation wall on the subject of CEA. It reads: "I am disgusted with the RAF at the moment and the whole boarding school allowance! Looks like they are trying to take it off all ground crew so its now turning it into a them and us allowance! In the process they are putting stress on families especially those who have had to take their child out of boarding... Chairman of the RAF FF, Dawn McCafferty responds, in part Dawn agrees by saying "Whilst the perceived lack of future mobility undermines an on-going entitlement to CEA, to remove a child who has already settled into a boarding environment when the serving parents were previously assessed as mobile, is to jeopardise the very continuity of education the allowance was supposed to deliver

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'A Space to Remember'

A Remembrance Day photography exhibition entitled 'A Space to Remember' is being held at St Clement Danes Church. Designed in part as a tribute to those who gave their lives in the Battle of Britain, half of the exhibition presents architectural images of the Church itself, the other half consists of landscape images of Battle of Britain airfields as they are today, often decaying or built over. The exhibition runs from 1-21 Nov

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