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.

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 ...

RAF's unique air bridge since 1982 Since 1982 ... transport aircraft which had to re-fuel at Dakar in West Africa, at Ascension Island, then twice in the air to the Falklands, landing on the ...

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.

Observed at 01:00, Saturday 11 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 ...