British base as ‘protected as it can be’

The British bases in Cyprus could “easily be targeted again” as the war in the Middle East continues, the British forces’ Cyprus commander major general Tom Bewick has said.

“One would be a fool not to take the Iranians at their word,” he told the BBC, a month after the Akrotiri base was hit by an Iranian-made drone, though he did stress that now, the base is “as protected as it can be”.

Of last month’s drone strike, he said that the drone had been detected by British radars as it approached the base...