The UK aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales has been in dock for repairs more often than at sea since being commissioned in 2019, The Times newspaper reported on Monday.

The UK carrier strike group led by the fifth-generation 65,000-tonne aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth on its maiden trip has entered the Indian Ocean and is sailing towards India to conduct routine maritime exercises with the Indian Navy, the UK Defense Ministry said in a statement published on Friday

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson called on the BBC on Friday to avoid repeating the mistakes the public broadcaster made in 1995, when according to a recently published independent inquiry, one of its journalists used deceitful methods to obtain an interview with the now-late Princess Diana

The Royal Navy is making the final arrangements for the departure from Portsmouth next weekend of HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier in a maiden trip that has been described as a show of military strength following London's exit from the European Union, government officials confirmed on Wednesday