Military vehicles cause delays on A31 (From Bournemouth Echo)
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Military vehicles cause delays on A31
3:01pm Wednesday 30th January 2013 in News
MOTORISTS were delayed on the A31 this afternoon due to a large amount of military vehicles on the move.
A spokesperson for Hampshire Police said traffic queues were backed up to Ashley Heath as a result of the large tanks travelling slowly eastbound from Ringwood.
They expected the delays to be over by around 3pm.
The police didn’t have any information about where the vehicles were travelling from or to.
An Army spokesperson said she could not confirm where the troops were moving to or coming from but suggested it could be movement to or from the Ministry of Defence-owned land at Salisbury Plain.
Earlier today, the British army conducted its largest virtual battle simulation, involving 220 soldiers at the Army's Land Warfare Centre in Warminster, Wiltshire.
The spokesperson said she could not confirm whether the vehicles were returning from this exercise.
The two-hour scenario saw soldiers on computers completing virtual missions in a fictional French town.
Comments(9)
J Swain
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4:21pm Wed 30 Jan 13
Old Colonial
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4:47pm Wed 30 Jan 13
Perhaps the hold-ups were caused by virtual tanks on the move.
BIGTONE
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8:01pm Wed 30 Jan 13
J Swain wrote:Yep......Mali here we come......
Off to war!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
arti273
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8:19pm Wed 30 Jan 13
Letcommonsenseprevail
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8:22pm Wed 30 Jan 13
RivermeadMike
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8:39pm Wed 30 Jan 13
billd766
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1:31am Thu 31 Jan 13
BIGTONE wrote:Nah surely not. After all it is only a couple of weeks ago that David Cameron promised that there would be NO Army boots in Mali. Now there is a transport aircraft, a reconnosance (spelling) aircraft, support for them and now the Army will be helping the French and Mali government troops with training, all without telling the UK people what is going on.
J Swain wrote:Yep......Mali here we come......
Off to war!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good on yer Dave, a blind follower of Tony Bliar.
baxtar01
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7:57pm Thu 31 Jan 13
We might as well just give our soldiers a copy of 'Black Op's'.
That'll teach them everything they need to know. NOT!!
Lord Spring says...
4:02pm Wed 30 Jan 13