4 month agoPer Eurocontrol, the Shannon (EISN) FIR has suffered a 'complete radar failure' and has been 0 rated (no flights) until at least 2300UTC.
Much of Irish airspace closed this evening after 'radar failure' in Shannon
4 month agoLive picture @flightradar24 shows Ireland's airspace clear apart from Dublin airport
Radar failure in west of Ireland resulting in a "zero flow rate" in Irish aerospace at present.
4 month agoRevised @DefenceHQ statement on A400M deployment to Indonesia:
4 month agoBIRCHINGTON: Unconfirmed report of a possible medical incident in Alfred Road at Minnis Bay. Air ambulance landed in The Dip by The Parade. Pic @Max_Orrin
4 month agoKnifeman 'goes on rampage' and stabs commuters on east London train sparking evacuation at Hackney Central station
Former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has attacked Theresa May's handling of Brexit and has urged Conservative activists to "chuck" her Chequers proposals
4 month agoChief of Foreign intelligence of Russia Naryshkin says that Skripal case is a provocation cause Russian spies cannot fail in such a manner
Sergei Skripal fed British intelligence information about graft that extended all the way to Gen. Nikolai Patrushev, one of Russia's top intelligence chiefs and a close Putin ally, he told @MarkUrban01, whose new book paints a picture of his life as a spy
Hammond: UK *WILL* enforce Hard Border if there is a No Deal Brexit.
Journalist Sergey Kanev: GRU colonel Chepiga got "Hero of Russia" for evacuation of Yanukovych from Ukraine. Chepiga unit deployed to Mezhyhirya and guard Yanukovych to Russia
Putin spox again declines to comment on Novichok poisoning suspect's identity amid mounting reports that Boshirov/Chepiga are same guy: "We aren't going to hold discussions with the media. The BBC can't confirm anything. It can only put forth assumptions."
Multiple neighbours and acquaintances in Chepiga's home village, 5000 miles east of Moscow, have confirmed that Boshirov and Chepiga are the same man i.e. the Skripal suspect is Russian military intelligence
"Gavin Williamson told The Sunday Telegraph that the Government was drawing up a "defence Arctic strategy" with 800 commandos being deployed to Norway next year and the instalment of a base in the north of the country," writes @Telegraph.
Gardaí in Mayo are investigating a serious road traffic collision in Castlebar last night. Two pedestrians - a 31 year old woman and a 34 year old man - were injured after a collision involving a car. The woman received serious head injuries.
Man dies, woman seriously injured, after separate serious collisions involving pedestrians in Mayo and Dublin
Man (45) charged with attempted murder after alleged stabbing at Belfast restaurant
Huge security flaw in @Conservatives conference app exposes the personal details of cabinet members, MPs, journalists and local councillors, as well as making their mobile phone numbers publicly available in the app's searchable database.
.Attack on @Dobrokhotov and @bellingcat by Lugovoy, suspected killer of Litvinenko, Duma deputy. He urges prosecutors to investigate source of financing of Insider, key to naming Chepiga.
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4 month agoKommersant sent a reporter to Far Eastern village Nikolayevka, where residents remembered Boshirov/Chepiga, but decided (or was told to) not to put the story into the newspaper
Telegraph is reporting a third GRU agent visited Salisbury to plan attack on Skripal before Boshirov/Chepiga and Petrov entered the UK in March.
4 month agoUK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt: Russia does seem to be heading for pariah status we need to speak to them from a position of strength.
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British officials are not disputing the @bellingcat report, according to BBC.
Bellingcat and its investigative partner The Insider identified
Skripal suspect Boshirov as GRU Colonel "Hero of the Russian Federation" Anatoliy Chepiga
Macron calls out recent uses of chemical weapons: ISIS's use of chemical weapons, North Korea for using VX against Kim Jong Nam, and backs the UK in blaming Russia for the Skipral poisoning
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Kanev expects that he and Dobrokhotov will have criminal cases opened against them for their work in revealing information about the Skripal poisoners in joint The Insider and The Bellingcat investigation
