MARGATE: Unconfirmed report of military helicopters also in the Margate area.
Rafael Drone Dome likely deployed to Gatwick airport. UK bought several systems from Israel before
1 year agoThe Minister of Defense of Ukraine Stepan Poltorak and the Secretary of State for the Defense of the Great Britain Gavin Williamson visited Ukraine's Navy frigate Hetman Sagaidachny
SWANLEY: Reports of armed officers and police dog unit at an incident in Hart Dyke Road. Unconfirmed report of several people arrested.
The British Airline Pilots' Association says it "remains extremely concerned at the risk of a drone collision" and understands "detection and tracking equipment has been installed around the perimeter of Gatwick"
1 year agoIt's propaganda
ISIS/linked group after recent Gatwick Airport drones incident just spread this poster threatening the use of IS drones against EU and US cities
1 year agoGeneral Sir Nick Carter, Chief of the Defence Staff, recently visited UK troops in Afghanistan contributing to @NATO @ResoluteSupport mission, training, advising and assisting Afghan National Security Forces
1 year agoRussia to retaliate against UK for investigations into RT broadcaster, says Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. (@BBC certain to be targeted.)
Russia opens investigation into BBC broadcasts in the country, a day after the UK found Kremlin-backed channel RT guilty of breaking British regulations
Three teenagers have been sent forward for trial to the Circuit Court in Dublin over an alleged attack and gang robbery of a student who was beaten with an iron bar
Gatwick airport says reopened for limited number of flights
London's Gatwick Airport will remain closed until at least 8 a.m. as chaos caused by drones continues into a 2nd day, according to Eurocontrol
A Gatwick Airport spokesperson says passengers should not come to the airport "for the foreseeable future including tomorrow"
There are also problems at Heathrow. The BA IT system has crashed, according to a passenger from The Westminster Bubble who is there - they've been told paperwork being manually delivered to planes. "150 aircraft awaiting clearance to take off", their pilot said
Gatwick Airport chief executive Stewart Wingate says "regrettably the airport will remain closed as a result of this criminal activity"
Cobra meeting underway on #GatwickDrones
Gavin Williamson has just confirmed: "We will be deploying the armed forces" at Gatwick, who will use "unique military capability" to help in the drone crisis. Declines to give any further detail about what military will or can do.
Sussex Police have made a formal request for military help. Defence sources say unspecified help will be provided.
Gatwick Airport chief says that it is unsafe to reopen airport due to drone sighting within the last hour
Putin: Khashoggi was killed, but Skripal is alive. There are sanctions against Russia, but in the latter case silence. This is a Russophobic attitude.
Russia Today spokesperson: "RT is extremely disappointed by Ofcom's conclusions in what were almost all self-initiated investigations into RT by the regulator. We are reviewing the findings Ofcom has put forward and will decide shortly the nature of our next steps."
EU diplomats have agreed to sanction 5 Russians for the Salisbury attack, including the 2 "tourists". Ambassadors and ministers should approve this in the early weeks of January.
Ofcom finds RT (formerly Russia Today) broke broadcasting rules by "failing to preserve due impartiality" in seven news and current affairs programmes over a six-week period between March and April this year
Russia Today breached broadcasting regulations on seven separate instances following Salisbury attack, per Ofcom. Regulator says its "minded to consider imposing a statutory sanction"
London confirms that the ISIS has not yet been defeated in Syria
1 year agoBrent's fallen to its lowest level since September 2017
Eurocontrol says London Gatwick is closed till 10.00UTC due to drone
1 year agoBritain on @POTUS' Syria-ISIS decision: "The Global Coalition against Daesh has made huge progress" per UK spox "Important advances have been made in recent days in the last area of eastern Syria which Daesh has occupied." "But much remains to be done."
UK's Gavin Williamson: I strongly disagree with Trump over ISIS elimination in Syria.
Trump is poised to announce withdrawal all US forces from Syria. Whitehall was braced for an announcement over next 24 hours and Trump appears to have confirmed this afternoon on Twitter. Britain will not be pulling out
