Dozens of Royal Air Force personnel forced to evacuate accommodation after power outage

Dozens of Royal Air Force personnel have been forced to evacuate their accommodation on a helicopter base after a power outage left them without hot water and functioning fire alarms. The electrical fault also impacted other facilities at RAF Odiham in Hampshire, home to the Chinook squadron, Sky News has learnt. Commanders this week ordered around 80 personnel to leave their accommodation blocks and relocate temporarily to RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, where they are being put up in what one source described as “a former military hotel which is worse than the Bates Motel”. He was referring to a…