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Sheerness (/ ʃ ɪər ˈ n ɛ s /) is a port town and civil parish [2] [3] beside the mouth of the River Medway on the north-west corner of the Isle of Sheppey in north Kent, England. With a population of 13,249, it is the second largest town on the island after the nearby town of Minster which has a population of 16,738.
Commando Training Centre Royal Marines, Lympstone, Devon; RM Stonehouse, Plymouth, Devon – Headquarters, UK Commando Force and 30 Commando (IX) Group; RM Poole, Poole, Dorset – Special Boat Service and 148 Commando Forward Observation Battery
Agenda for Change paves the way for a new pay structure for nurses. Nurse employers inspected for staff-friendly policies under Improving Working Lives and Investors in People. In 2005 nurse numbers hit 397,500 – an all-time high. Nursing students are given supernumary status throughout their three years of training.
The earliest surviving Royal Naval Hospital complex is on the Illa del Rei, Port Mahon, Menorca (built 1711-12, extended 1771–76, restored 2011). A Royal Naval Hospital (RNH) was a hospital operated by the British Royal Navy for the care and treatment of sick and injured naval personnel. [1]
Swale is a mainly rural borough, containing a high proportion of the UK's apple, pear, cherry and plum orchards (the North Kent Fruit Belt [21]), as well as many of its remaining hop gardens. Faversham has the Shepherd Neame brewery. Founded in 1698 it is claimed to be oldest brewery in the UK. Sheerness is a busy port and previously produced ...
At the 2001 UK census, the economic activity of residents aged 16–74 of Queenborough and its neighbouring villages of Minster-on-Sea, Rushenden and Halfway Houses was 42.0% in full-time employment, 12.7% in part-time employment, 7.1% self-employed, 3.4% unemployed, 1.5% students with jobs, 3.0% students without jobs, 14.6% retired, 8.0% ...
A series of closures followed the war: Pembroke in 1947, Portland and Sheerness in 1959/60, [8] then Chatham and Gibraltar (the last remaining overseas yard) in 1984. [9] At the same time, Portsmouth's Royal Dockyard was downgraded and renamed a Fleet Maintenance and Repair Organisation (FMRO).
The University Royal Naval Units (URNU) (/ ˈ ər. n uː / UHR-noo, less commonly / ˈ ɜːr. n uː / ERR-noo) (formerly Universities' Royal Naval Units) are Royal Navy training establishments under the command of Britannia Royal Naval College, who recruit Officer Cadets from a university or a number of universities, usually concentrated in one geographical area.