For 90 years they have travelled the country displaying some of the skills that have stood the British Army in good stead on the battlefield.

But after this weekend the White Helmets motorcycle team will ride no more.

Army chiefs have decided that daring two wheeled displays no longer reflect the reality of the high-tech on-screen communications of today’s conflicts.

The Royal Corps of Signals’ motorcycle display team is being wound up and its members returned to duties behind their computer and radar screens after a farewell series of displays at the Chatsworth House country fair, in Derbyshire.