Just over 1,000 Royal Navy personnel are to be made redundant today, about a third of them forced to leave, as part of a much wider reduction in the armed forces.

Commodore Michael Mansergh, head of Royal Navy manning at the MOD, explains how the cuts will work.

And former First Sea Lord Admiral Lord West, criticises the move.

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