VETERANS who maintained the vital lifeline to Russia in World War 2 are to be recognised with an official ‘Arctic Star’ emblem by the government.

THREE intrepid adventurers are required to join an expedition to some of most remote mountains in the world.

WHAT have Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher and the ship’s company of HMS Westminster have in common?

ONE Royal Marine will definitely run for his country at the Winter Olympics and two commando comrades could join him in the GB bobsleigh team.

TV documentary series Shipmates drew around six million people into the world of the Royal Navy.

THE Countess of Wessex will perform the honours when the first of the much-heralded Type 45 destroyers is launched on February 1.

UNDER a forbidding sky, HMS Ramsey and Grimsby have arrived in their new homes after a shortish hop from Portsmouth.

AS 2005 closes and 2006 opens, the men and women of 820 Naval Air Squadron can reflect on a busy and rewarding 15 months which have seen them employ the Merlin in all of its principal roles and in many different environments.

HAILED as the biggest public event in the Senior Service’s 2006 calendar, Navy Days will be hosted in Plymouth from August 26-28.

MARINES.Les berets verts. Fanti di marina. Infantes de marina.

SUBMARINES, messes, wardrooms and clubs will become no-smoking zones as the Navy embraces the Government’s healthy lifestyle programme.

BY helicopter, by truck, by foot, commando engineers brought aid and assistance to the earthquake-stricken mountains of Kashmir as the winter began to bite.

T’S a hard life being Jack as the men and women of HMS Enterprise will tell you.

A PROTOTYPE of the Royal Marines’ new fast assault craft has passed trials with flying colours, paving the way for the boats joining front-line units.

SPRINGTIME in the South Atlantic has seen HMS Southampton busy in the Falklands area with exercises with Army and RAF units.