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Soldiers need loans to eat, report reveals
Monday, May 12th, 2008
By Jonathan Owen and Brian Brady | A highly sensitive internal report into the state of the British Army has revealed that many soldiers are living in poverty. Some are so poor that they are unable to eat and are forced to rely on emergency food voucher schemes set up by the Ministry of Defence (MoD).
Some of Britain's most senior ...
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MoD accused of schools propaganda
Friday, March 14th, 2008The Ministry of Defence has been accused of supplying "misleading propaganda" to schools and attempting to recruit pupils into the army.The children's secretary, Ed Balls, has written to officials in the MoD asking them to investigate teachers' claims that their worksheets for 16- to 18-year-olds provide a one-sided view on the war in Iraq. The National Union of Teachers said the MoD was "unethically" targeting recruitment materials at schools in disadvantaged ...
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