Thanks Future Hunter - there's a significant amount of 'speculative' journalism floating about nowadays - 'investigative' journalism seems to have disappeared, such a shame. Every time I see a headline concerning the SDSR it has 'could' in the sentence. The RAF 'could' be scrapped - yes, of course it could, but very unlikely. It seems to be all about headline grabbing speculation which is incredibly annoying; I've stopped getting the Times now as it is becoming a broadsheet Daily Mail (which my mum reads, bless her). I suppose journo's need to earn a living though, I just wish that they'd invest some time in quality investigative copy and not 'a source said' type drivel.