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.

Ascension Island remains a strategically important site ... but smaller military aircraft, including the RAF C17, C130 and A400M, can still operate safely. Given Ascension’s isolated location ...

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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 ...