内容摘要："We need to do the right thing here, there are 40 children who are dependant on this treatment to survive, to live, for a quality of life."

"We need to do the right thing here, there are 40 children who are dependant on this treatment to survive, to live, for a quality of life."

There has been no call to intercept a Russian plane since he arrived, he says, though there were on previous missions, over the Baltic.“They will just be blundering through - it's not against any international law, they are entitled to do that. But we’ll put an aircraft next to that adversary aircraft. From a posturing point of view, it shows the Russians… that we are active. We're flying with armed jets, so it sends a clear message.

"And it also provides valuable intelligence for us, we're recording serial numbers of aircraft, and the weapons that those aircraft are carrying, so it feeds into the whole intelligence picture as well.”Late at night at the British compound on the MK base he watches the war unfold in neighbouring Ukraine on his radar screens.“We could see Shahed drones going into Odesa. The heat sources on the ground, where the weapons are impacting, to radar feeds that are tracking aircraft, both friendly aircraft and not so friendly aircraft as well. So it is quite surreal.”

While Nato jets avoid unnecessary encounters with the Russians, there have been two known incidents over the Black Sea. In September 2022 a Russian pilot misunderstood a command from ground control, anda British intelligence-gathering plane with a crew of up to 30.

In March 2023, a US MQ-9 Reaper drone, flown from Romania, was

by a Russian SU-27 “Flanker” jet, over international waters.Otters are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 198, and the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017.

It is a criminal offence to wilfully kill, injure, capture or disturb otters except under licence.Dave Webb, founder of the trust, said of the find in Shropshire: "We sincerely hope that someone has information on this or even has CCTV footage from the area that can be passed to the wildlife crime officers investigating this rural crime."

He added: "Although we’ve unfortunately been called out to some strange and upsetting circumstances in the past, this feels like a new low."This seems to be a planned act of unprecedented cruelty and we will do everything we can to bring the people responsible for this act to justice."