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equipment checks and briefing in the industrial Midlands, or training. regular soldiers are kitting out Defence Secretary Pym all reserves who live in a 30 expects these changes to halve miles radius of the barracks, said UP Between November 7 and 27 8,000 regular army reservists living in the North East will be 'called up' for one day as part of a country wide plan to reduce the time needed to mobilise the country's 45,000-strong reserve.

Hundreds of ex-soldiers, most of whom left the army less than nine years ago, have already reported to receive full kit issue to be kept in readiness at home to speed up mobilisation.

Previously reservists were expected to keep in touch by post at quarterly intervals and their liability to report for a spell of training annually was never invoked.

From this year, reservists will be expected to report for at least one day every year for the time needed to mobilise the reserve, with soldiers now reporting to centres near their homes instead of travelling to depots all over the country. The potential strength of to the Tories during be these forces and their usefulness industrial upsurge can grasped if we remember that they are all trained soldiers and secondly when we look at the figures involved from major northern industrial townsBradford 550, Halifax 200, Huddersfield 200, Leeds 700, Sheffield 1,200, Wakefield 700, Cleveland 300, Darlington 500, Durham 300, Newcastle 1,300, 1,000, Hull 400, York 400. Sunderland Doncaster