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Wednesday, April 03, 2013

Royal Navy has too few ships and people

HMS Ark Royal |The Royal Navy has been cut too far and does not have enough ships, submarines or people, David Cameron has been warned.

Admiral Lord West, a former head of the Royal Navy, said that cuts imposed on the service were becoming dangerous for the UK.

"We live on an island and more than 90 per cent of everything that goes to and from this country goes by sea," he wrote in an open letter to the Prime Minister and Defence Secretary Philip Hammond.

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