Defence in the Media: 14 January 2015 Defence spending The story about the MOD’s equipment investment plan for the next 10 years features this morning, including in the Financial Times (subscription only), Defense News , The Times (page 4 of the paper) and the Daily Mirror (on page 2). You can read more on GOV.UK here , and Defence Minister Philip Dunne has written a blog on the Equipment Plan – see more below. Also in the news today is the annual Stonewall Index . A positive story in The Times (page 22) reports that the British Army, Royal Navy and the RAF have been ranked among the top 100 gay-friendly employers only 15 years after it became legal to be openly homosexual in the forces. Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said: “I’m tremendously proud of this ringing endorsement from Stonewall – our Armed Forces have worked tirelessly over the last 15 years to become more in...