YOU travel 9,000 miles and as luck would have it, you bump into your neighbour.

KASHMIR villages devastated by the Pakistan earthquake are witnessing a dramatic acceleration in the distribution of aid with the arrival of British forces as part of Operation Heavy Lift.

THE Star Spangled Banner flutters proudly in the heart of one of Britain’s great Naval cities this weekend as an act of friendship between the Royal and US Navies.

THE air aboard HMS Lancaster has become rather more rarefied with the departure of the most high-profile member of the ship’s company.

FOR the first time, people can find where their relatives are commemorated on public war memorials in Britain.

THE TRAFALGAR bicentenary ensured the iconic reminder of that battle, HMS Victory, broke visitor records.

SAILORS and Royal Marines have once again been called upon to provide cover when fire-fighters took industrial action – fortunately not on a national scale.

YOU WAIT all day for a ship – then 22 come along all at once. Not to mention a submarine and several aircraft.

TWO heavyweight historians picked up the highest honour in the maritime media award at this year’s Desmond Wettern Awards.

APTLY in this bicentennial year of Trafalgar, the Senior Service was at the hub of ceremonies of remembrance to mark the nation’s war dead at home and aboard.

THE home of the Royal Navy on Tyneside is staying put, despite plans for a £1m revamp of the site being snubbed by local politicians.

FOLLOWING a very busy two-year-long operational phase, in particular the trialing of newly-installed minehunting equipment, HMS Atherstone is currently undergoing a major planned refit at Rosyth.

THERE are traditional ways to celebrate your tenth birthday.

HMS Cornwall put to sea for the first time in almost a year as her refit in her home port of Devonport came to a close.

THE first of the next-generation landing support ships, RFA Mounts Bay, has begun trials at sea ahead of entering service next year.

BRINGING the curtain down on this fabulous bicentennial year of Trafalgar, the boffins running the Senior Service’s website a running a photographic competition.

THERE’S a Norwegian flavour to the performance by the Royal Marines Band, Portsmouth, at St Mary’s Church in Fratton on November 17.

THE Paras may regard themselves as Britain’s elite airborne force.

UNIQUE records from the ‘other side of the hill’ at Trafalgar have been unearthed by historians in Britain’s National Archives.

IN the shadow of Tynemouth’s famous ruined castle and with the waves of the North Sea which is so often their domain crashing against the shore, the ship’s company of HMS Tyne were granted the freedom of North Tyneside.

ROYAL Marines storming ashore from RIBs as smoke drifted across the beach heralded a new era of educating soldiers and airmen, plus Britain’s movers and shakers, about the Royal Navy’s 21st-Century role.