Defence Secretary John Healey MP has outlined the UK contribution to the multinational Strait of Hormuz mission, with Britain deploying autonomous mine hunting equipment and cutting-edge counter drone systems, along with Typhoon jets and HMS Dragon, as part of a future defensive mission to secure freedom of navigation in the Strait.

State-of-the-art Live Facial Recognition (LFR) technology will be deployed for the first time in Cambridgeshire this coming Saturday (16th May 2026) in Peterborough.

K3Metrology, a UK spin-out from the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), has secured a £2.75 million seed investment led by the UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund (UKI2S), to commercialise a new generation of large-scale measurement technology designed to improve efficiency and reduce delays in advanced manufacturing and aerospace.

In new results released by the Metropolitan Police today, over 170 wanted criminals were arrested during a live facial recognition pilot in Croydon, which saw static cameras deployed for the first time.