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June 2024

  • Keir Starmer seen against a ship's mast in Portsmouth harbour, with a life-vest over his suit

    Starmer says Sunak broke ministerial code with £2,000 Labour tax claim

  • King Charles III sits in a semi-circle with D-day veterans Bernard Morgan and John Dennett in a room in Buckingham Palace, that will feature in the BBC's D-Day 80: Tribute to the Fallen

    King Charles and Rishi Sunak join veterans for 80th anniversary of D-day

April 2024

  • Portsmouth seafront with Spinnaker Tower

    ‘Pompey’ Penny Mordaunt is at risk, but there’s little love for Labour either on Portsmouth North seat

    Opinion polls have the Commons leader being toppled in the general election, but voters in her constituency tell a different story

March 2024

  • Portsmouth councillor Gerald Vernon-Jackson. Portsmouth Border Control Post at Portsmouth port. Photographed ahead of the government bringing in new border control checks on imports coming into the country in April. 20 March 2024

    ‘It was built for 80 vehicles. We’re expecting six’: the big Brexit border posts that may never be fully used

    At Portsmouth and other sites, rule changes have left port operators with new, expensive and now partly redundant facilities

February 2024

  • Stan Ford and John Roberts stand with two members of the armed forces who hold their memorial plaques

    Names of two surviving D-day veterans to be put on Portsmouth memorial wall

    Stan Ford and John Roberts to have names memorialised as city prepares to mark 80th anniversary of D-day in June

September 2023

  • The Worlds Beneath the Waves exhibition - children silhouetted in front of giant image of sea creature

    ‘4,700 species’: Portsmouth exhibition celebrates HMS Challenger’s deep-sea discoveries

    Worlds Beneath the Waves at the National Museum of the Royal Navy marks 150 years since ship’s remarkable circumnavigation

August 2023

  • Lawrence Churcher

    Royal Navy sailors provide guard of honour at last Dunkirk veteran’s funeral

    Lawrence Churcher, 102, believed to be last navy veteran of evacuation during second world war

May 2023

  • The £25m border post, built according to the government's post-Brexit border control plans for import checks: the building is sitting empty and idle.

    Council on hook ‘for £10m’ over border post left in limbo by Brexit

    The £25m port facility was built to fit government plans but stands empty while new border strategy is delayed

April 2023

  • A view of silhouettes that are part of the Standing With Giants art installation at the Royal Armouries Fort Nelson in Portsmouth

    Falklands war art installation given ‘fitting place’ in Portsmouth

    Standing With Giants, created for 40th anniversary, commemorates troops and islanders who died

February 2023

  • A stop the Ulez protest in Trafalgar Square, London, on 25 February 2023.

    ‘We need to change, whether we like it or not’: London’s Ulez expansion

  • HMS Portland tracking the Russian warship Admiral Gorshkov and a cargo ship in the North Sea

    Royal Navy opens investigation into contaminated drinking water incident

December 2022

  • Exterior of Portsmouth University

    Portsmouth University loses discrimination case against Indian lecturer

    Dr Kajal Sharma was only one of 12 senior academics not to be reappointed to her post

October 2022

  • James McLeish

    ‘Who’s she?’: constituents react to Penny Mordaunt’s Tory leadership bid

    Portsmouth North residents air views on their MP and Liz Truss’s resignation

September 2022

  • Harry Studwell

    Other lives
    Harry Studwell obituary

    Other lives: Engineer in the RAF who rose to be a wing commander and later worked as a civilian for the Sultan of Oman’s air force

August 2022

  • HMS Prince of Wales returns to the Solent off Portsmouth after breaking down off the Isle of Wight.

    UK’s defective Nato flagship could miss ‘landmark’ flight trials

  • HMS Prince of Wales leaving Portsmouth

    HMS Prince of Wales breaks down day after leaving Portsmouth

July 2022

  • Fans with pink ’uns after Aston Villa’s FA Cup final triumph in 1957

    Final whistle for the ‘pink ’un’: British football’s last-surviving matchday newspaper closes

  • Surrounded by people with cameras, Penny Mordaunt, wearing a blazer, lifts her hand and smiles

    ‘We disagree politically, but she knows how to run things’: Penny Mordaunt’s sudden rise to bookies’ favourite no surprise to Portsmouth locals

  • Portsmouth International Port's border control post

    Portsmouth’s £25m border post stands empty after minister’s imports U-turn

  • NHS liveried drone

    NHS to test using drones to fly chemotherapy drugs to Isle of Wight

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