Concerns over changing standards of SAS selection test

Recruitment tests to join the SAS will be "softened" in response to the deaths of three reservists during a selection march, the Times has claimed.

The newspaper says test marches in the Brecon Beacons could be postponed in the case of extreme temperatures, humidity and winds.

The decision has angered SAS insiders and their US counterparts who fear it may lower standards, the paper claimed.

The Ministry of Defence has not commented on the story.

Military commentator Maj Alan Davies told BBC Radio Wales about his concerns if the standards of the selection test are changed.