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Fundraiser takes place for under-threat theatre

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内容摘要:Mr Prajapati's innovation is part of a growing wave of grassroots entrepreneurship in India, driven by necessity.

Mr Prajapati's innovation is part of a growing wave of grassroots entrepreneurship in India, driven by necessity.

An MoD spokesperson said: "The Mull of Kintyre crash was a tragic accident and our thoughts and sympathies remain with the families, friends and colleagues of all those who died."Down a discreet road, on the fringes of a quiet home counties commuter town, is a set of grey buildings worth many hundreds of millions of pounds. In one, behind a secure fence, a handful of workers are on shift this weekend, making Storm Shadow missiles by hand. Each one is worth hundreds of thousands, the product of months of work, made of myriad components.

Fundraiser takes place for under-threat theatre

Storm Shadows, like mini-aircraft, have been flying in the skies above Ukraine with a range of 250km (155 miles). They're part of the UK's backing of President Volodymyr Zelensky's efforts to keep Russia's Vladimir Putin at bay. The factory is calm and quiet - a world away from the fire and fury of the conflict on the edge of Europe.We've been allowed to see the missiles up close because the government is warming up for a big moment on Monday, when the prime minister will unveil a. Sir Keir Starmer has already said we are living in a "new, dangerous era", with a malevolent Russia and its friends hungry to disrupt and damage the West - while the White House is less eager to cough up to defend Europe.

Fundraiser takes place for under-threat theatre

So will this review meet the risk that politicians tell us we face?We have gone through many years in which defence has been a lower priority for politicians and the public, largely because peace has prevailed in the UK. Since the end of the Cold War, a former minister says, "we've been going round the world making sure we are reassuring allies, and there have been some very nasty wars in the Middle East".

Fundraiser takes place for under-threat theatre

But at the same time, the proportion of cash spent on defence has shrunk and the ability of the military to fight "peer-on-peer" wars has decreased. There are well known worries about stockpiles, a lack of munitions, and weapons being decommissioned that haven't yet been replaced. We now have a smaller armed forces - one that is "hollowed out", in the words of the current Defence Secretary John Healey, who we'll talk to on this week's

Yet now, the government certainly confronts a more alarming picture - and there is a concerted focus on trying to address it. With conflict in Ukraine, a former minister says "if you are going to credibly deter Russia, you need to persuade them, actually, if they mess around with Nato, they lose".However, he conceded that the UK government may have to change approach if SNP popularity and support for another vote grows.

Gove was part of a government that rejected requests from the Scottish government for a second referendum.He denied that this was anti-democratic and insisted that Scotland had "more important" issues to deal with.

Gove now suggests that the likelihood of a second independence vote was linked to the SNP's ability to improve public services."If, for the sake of argument, the SNP make all of those decisions in government in a way that gives people confidence in them then we might be in a different position [on a second referendum]," he said.

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