Three men and two women from the St John's Wood-based Royal Horse Artillery - responsible for representing the Army at the Queen's ceremonial shindigs, lest we forget - have been given the old heave ho after testing positive for Class A drugs during random tests. Though drug use within the Army remains statistically rare, it rose by almost 50 per cent between 2003 and 2007. A spokesperson said: "You cannot be taking drugs and expect......

The government today accepted recommendations from a report about improving public-military relations which included the appointment of a "cadet ambassador" for London to do "everything possible" to urge schools to start Combined Cadet Forces and get their pupils to join them and enjoy "a taste of the military". Currently, there are 253 CCFs in England and Wales but only about 60 are in state schools. They provide extra-curricular "military-orientated and adventurous training" with the......

Southall’s Punjabi community is in shock after a nine year old boy was abandoned at a bus stop. London teachers at the NUT conference have likened modern army marketing techniques to the press gang: they are both dangerously persuasive. Apparently a career in the army is neither glam nor safe. Nonsuch park on the Surrey/London border is to be preserved under joint management. London comes second…in a survey of the most burgled townsfolk in......