Today, there are more than 500 military working dogs in the British Armed Forces, with the modern Defence Animal Training Regiment based in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire.

Soldiers are adopting the four puppies after helping to save their lives and falling in love with them while in Romania for a major NATO exercise.

The UK's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has successfully completed trials using robot dogs to defuse bombs. The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) trials took place over four days and saw ...