The men, nine from the RAF and one soldier, were flown in from Basra on a C17 plane to RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire for a repatriation ceremony attended by their families and dignitaries including The ...

The RAF base at Lyneham in Wiltshire is to close by 2012 as part of a strategic review of military airbases which will cost a total of more than 2,000 jobs, the Ministry of Defence confirmed today.

The land for the proposed development, between Chippenham and Swindon, was previously underdeveloped because it had provided the flight path and associated landing lights for an RAF Lyneham runway ...