Philip Ingram, a retired colonel who dealt with Ajax during the project’s infancy in 2011, said: “The fact that they’ve had confirmed cases going back that far shows that the chain of command have ignored the problems that this programme has caused to its people.”
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It comes as the Government is intent on pressing ahead with the £6.3bn programme despite safety concerns.
The vehicles, built by US defence contractor General Dynamics, cost £10m each and could be sent by Sir Keir Starmer to Ukraine as part of British peacekeeping forces.
Figures obtained using freedom of information laws show that 166 men assessed by clinicians since 2016 were subsequently documented as having a varying degree of hearing loss, including deafness.
41 soldiers were affected in 2025 – the highest number for any year on record.
EXCL: British soldiers have been left deaf after using the Army’s troubled Ajax armoured vehicles.
More than 160 personnel have had varying degrees of hearing loss, including deafness, after using the vehicles, according to figures obtained by The Telegraph. 🧵
How Elon Musk is using Starlink to reshape the world, giving the tech mogul a geopolitical influence unprecedented for a corporate figure.
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Water firms treated our rivers like sewers. Now they’re facing an almighty – and deserved – backlash
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The loss for Reform in Durham comes as the party has faced difficulties at town halls across Britain since winning hundreds of council seats in the May elections.
Dozens of councillors have since been forced to resign, or been thrown out or suspended from the party.
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EXCL: Reform has lost a sixth councillor from a key local authority. Meanwhile, figures obtained by The Telegraph using freedom of information laws reveal the cash-strapped local authority has spent £18k battling an “avalanche” of complaints against its own Reform councillors. 🧵
Like many evangelicals in the US, he believes the “end of times” are approaching.
“I don’t have any desires. I don’t covet wealth. I’m in it for the right reasons. I’m doing it to save lives”, he says.
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With somewhat remarkable timing, his firm opened new offices in Dubai at the end of February. Just two days later, Iranian missiles rained down on the glitzy city.
He insists he is “not the type who hopes for war,” but admits “from my point of view, I don’t have to advertise very much now”.
The Texan says war with Iran is the latest in a string of lucky breaks for his company since President Trump’s inauguration last year.
He has frequented Mar-a-Lago for conferences with CEOs and claims several senior figures in the Trump administration are clients.
The Texan building nuclear bunkers to prepare Americans for World War Three
Just hours after the war with Iran broke out, he claims a senior Cabinet member in the Trump administration texted him saying: 'When will my bunker be ready?' 🧵
Great to see our story picked up and taken forward by The Insider.
Deliveries started just days after Donald Trump imposed punishing sanctions on Tehran during his first term.
Former senior state department officials said Moscow favoured cash deliveries to be “covert” and warned similar payments could be going on today.
Petr Fradkov, the son of a former head of Russia’s foreign intelligence service, was in charge of the bank at the time.
Nearly five tonnes of banknotes were sent in 34 bulk shipments over a four-month period in 2018.
The near $2.5bn worth of cash was sent from Promsvyazbank, a state owned Russian bank used to finance the defence sector.
Revealed: How Russia secretly shipped billions in cash to prop up the Iranian regime. 🧵
But just months on, the experiment seems to have run out of steam.
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When Reform UK won control of Kent, wiping out the Tories in one of their strongest rural heartlands, Nigel Farage called it a “tectonic shift in British politics”.
Their newly elected council leader promised to offer the nation a window into what Reform could achieve in power.
Reform’s first crack at power is already in crisis 🧵
Nearly five tonnes of banknotes were sent in 34 bulk shipments over a four-month period in 2018.
The near $2.5bn worth of cash was sent from Promsvyazbank, a state owned Russian bank used to finance the defence sector.
It comes as the King faces the difficult task of balancing his duties as head of state of Canada and his role in Sir Keir Starmer’s attempt to maintain strong relations with the US amid international crises involving the war in Ukraine and trade disputes. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
But the high commissioner also supported Mark Carney’s criticism of the unprecedented 2nd state visit granted to Trump, saying Carney was “direct” and “very accurate”.
Carney said it “cut across” his messages against US annexation threats and said Canadians “weren’t impressed”
King Charles’ upcoming royal visit to Canada will “reinforce” the country’s sovereignty against threats from Donald Trump, the Canadian high commissioner has said.
Ralph Goodale, the Canadian high commissioner, spoke as the King and Queen visited Canada House in central London
My story from Bucharest: Romania’s hard-Right election front-runner threatens to cancel British defence pact unless Kyiv ‘learns how to behave’.
Just going to post #TomorrowsPapersToday here tonight as well as at the other place as a little test…
