The RAF has launched a mission to make the population ... vaccine from the Brize Norton military base on Oxfordshire to Ascension Island, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

The contract to repair the 3,000-meter runway at RAF Ascension Island has yet to be awarded, and work may not be complete until 2022. It has been partially closed since April 2017.

Realizing the planes were the only bombers capable of reaching the islands, they were deployed to the next closest RAF Base, Ascension Island. The base is located near Saint Helena, one of the ...

Just under 2,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine were transported to Ascension Island, a sovereign base used as a bridging point in the South Atlantic. An RAF A400M made the trip, with the ...

Observed at 21:00, Thursday 16 January BBC Weather in association with MeteoGroup, external All times are Greenwich Mean Time (Atlantic/St_Helena, GMT) unless otherwise stated.

They sailed to Ascension Island, where they took an RAF flight back to the UK. Menacing mice attack albatross on Gough Island 'Super-sized' mice threat to seabirds The island where nothing makes ...