Fighting Flooding at Halton Training Camp
...it is still known as ‘Halton Bridging Camp’ by older locals – but today it is a general purpose all-year-round camp. It has a small training area catering for regular...
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MOD completes sale of historic Old War Office
...of all the necessary legalities and clearing of MOD equipment and systems from the building, the sale completed today, 1 March 2016, for in excess of £350m and Mark Lancaster,...
Improvements to training facilities at New Zealand Farm Camp
...during the First World War. Prior to and during the Second World War it was an Air Ministry location attached to Porton Down. Today we use it for a variety...
100 Years of Firing At Lulworth Training Area
![Soldiers with the Royal Wessex Yeomanry onboard a Challenger 2 main battle tank during a training exercise at Lulworth Cove in Dorset. [Crown Copyright/MOD2013]](https://insideDIO.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2016/07/45156642-1024x682.jpg)
...gave way to early radar systems operated on the clifftops reporting to a soldier with a large map and pencils, to computerised systems using fibre optic communications. Today we have...
Tree Felling: Helping Woodlands for the Future
![The harvester in action at Erlestoke Woods. [Landmarc Support Services/2016]](https://insideDIO.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2016/11/Erlestoke-harvesting-site-1024x576.jpg)
...by the end of the 19th Century woodland cover in the UK was as low as 5% of the land surface. If you go down to the woods today… Now...
Talking the talk: a secondment at Joint Forces Command
![Standing Joint Force Headquarters staff visited HMS BULWARK for a brief on Maritime awareness. [Crown Copyright/MOD2017]](https://insideDIO.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2017/04/DR170031001-SJFHQ_on_Offshore_Raiding_Craft.jpg)
Hi, I’m Helen Pickering and I work in DIO’s Communications team. A lot of my day-to-day job revolves around DIO’s social media channels, so when I was approached to see...
Repairing access to the Fossil Forest
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James Nevitt, Posted on:
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Explosive Ordnance Clearance, Public Access, Public safety
...fossils, still visible today. Removing ordnance Lulworth Ranges is a live firing area, so it was essential to check that there was no unexploded ordnance on the site. We carried...
From IRA attacks to escorting the Queen: 25 years of the MOD Guard Service
![Today, access control systems are much more sophisticated. [Crown Copyright/MOD]](https://insideDIO.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2017/10/IMG_9224-1024x660.jpg)
...MOD’s Headquarters in London, known as Main Building. I’m a supervisor and work in a team with two other supervisors; we facilitate the day-to-day running of the building. My duties...
Army Basing Programme welcomes families to Ashdown Estate
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Mark Duddy, Posted on:
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Army Basing Programme, Salisbury Plain Training Area
![Mark Duddy, DIO Programme Director for the Army Basing Programme [Crown Copyright, MOD 2018]](https://insideDIO.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2018/02/Mark-Duddy-1024x576.jpg)
...Sindall. These new houses will all be built by 2020. I hope that everyone living on the Ashdown Estate today and for generations to come enjoy these wonderful new homes....
Saving archaeology on Salisbury Plain - Silver Otter Award Winner
![Roy Canham, Sanctuary Silver Otter Winner 2017 [Crown Copyright, MOD 2017]](https://insideDIO.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2017/11/image1-e1511360931159-768x1024.jpeg)
...convinced that many of these sites that define our history would not exist today if it weren’t for the commitment of the MOD, English Heritage and Wiltshire Council to preserve...