Legend in hospital
Former Rangers manager Walter Smith was last night recovering in hospital following an operation, the club said.
The Ibrox side posted on their Twitter site shortly after 5pm yesterday: “Rangers Football Club can confirm Walter Smith had an operation on Monday and he is currently recovering in hospital. His family have requested privacy at this time.”
Last night, get well messages were pouring in for the popular former Light Blues boss, 73.
Boris Johnson will outline plans to bolster Britain’s cyber capability when he announces the outcome of the Government’s farranging review of foreign and defence policy on Tuesday.
The Prime Minister will commit to take a “full-spectrum” approach to cyber in a bid to keep people safe and stay ahead of the UK’S enemies.
He will use the Integrated Review to announce plans for a “cyber corridor” across the north of England – where the headquarters of the new National Cyber Force (NCF) will be based.
The NCF, created last year to transform the UK’S capacity to conduct targeted offensive cyber operations following increased cyber attacks by Russia and China, brings together personnel from defence and intelligence agencies under a unified command.
Ahead of his Commons statement, Mr Johnson said: “Cyber power is revolutionising the way we live our lives
and fight our wars, just as air power did 100 years ago.”
Meanwhile, the British Army’s ageing tanks and armoured vehicles are likely to find themselves outgunned and overmatched in any conflict with Russian forces, MPS have warned.
In a scathing report, the Commons Defence Committee said a series of botched procurement programmes meant the Army had been left with an armoured fighting vehicle fleet facing “mass obsolescence”.
It said any “artillery duel” between a modern British and Russian division is “likely to end one way – and not necessarily to the British Army’s advantage”.