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.

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 ...

which are home to the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the United States Air Force, along with an airfield and a BBC relay station. Ascension Island has a handful of shops, gyms and swimming pools ...

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 ...

The Financial Times says Ascension Island, more than 4,000 miles (6,000km ... island The military airbase is jointly operated by the RAF and the US, and has been used as a staging post to supply ...

RAF aircraft ferry troops to and from the island and contribute to tri-service exercises in the area. Nearby Ascension Island ...