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Great South Run: NHS charity boss’ raising cash for improved hospital facilities

An exterior wall collapsed at the converted Southsea house in Victoria Road South. Pic Habibur Rahman

Watch: Southsea house wall collapse drama as woman recalls shocking moment

Police are looking to speak to the dangerous bull-breed’s owner in relation to the horrifying incident.

Terrifying moment pensioner & pet labradoodle attacked by crazed dog

Police are looking to speak to the dangerous bull-breed’s owner in relation to the horrifying incident.

Terrifying moment pensioner & pet labradoodle attacked by crazed dog

Thousands of pensioners could be missing out on Pension Credit worth £3,500 a year plus the £301 cost of living payment. There are just 10 days left to apply - check if you’re eligible and how to make a claim.

Pensioners have 10 days left to apply for boost worth £3,500 a year

Man drove without licence for 50 years

Man pulled over by police after driving without licence for 50 years

The property was bought by Gifford’s parents in 1921.

Woman sells her childhood home bought 102 years ago for £200

Martin Lewis has shared a ‘rule’ to help full and part-time workers save for their retirement

Martin Lewis explains ‘scary rule of thumb’ to save for pension

Jackson made over 7,000 phone calls to emergency services

Nuisance caller who made 7,000 calls to emergency services jailed

Elizabeth Harvest has been found after going missing yesterday. Picture: Habibur Rahman

Missing Portsmouth pensioner found

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Pensioner returns book 58 years late racking up £42k in late fees

The memorial to Craig Day by the M275

Man wants to find family of person killed in M275 crash in March 2001

Michael Wrapson, 66, slipped and fell on icy pavement on Thursday, December 15, before waiting almost three hours for an ambulance. Picture used with permission from Michael and his support workers at supported living. Picture: Felicity Burleigh-Thurston

Pensioner's fall on freezing pavement leads to over two hour wait for ambulance

Describing the latest discovery, hunter and beekeeper John de Carteret said it should be a warning to everyone.

Experts warn ‘killer’ Asian hornets are nesting in UK wardrobes

Emergency services, including an air ambulance, scrambled to the scene in New Road, Bedhampton. Picture: Google Street View.

Pensioner dies in fatal Bedhampton collision

The Beatles in 1963, (left to right), Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr and George Harrison as their historic touchdown at JFK Airport in New York. Photo PA Wire

Pensioner reveals how she helped smuggle the Beatles out of Portsmouth and dodge...
SHE once helped the world’s most famous boy bands flee a baying mob of fans in Southsea.

Pictured: Keith and Tina Tyler at their home in Gosport on Thursday 23rd June 2022 Picture: Habibur Rahman

Pensioner, 72, whose skull was crushed by motorhome hailed as 'miracle man'

Reader Soros Pepper had trouble with Sharp over a broken microwave Picture: Adobe stock image

Pensioner faces long battle to get broken new microwave fixed

A South Central Ambulance Service vehicle

Delays in handing patients from ambulances to QA hit record highs

Police, firefighters and paramedics in Cosham high street at its junction with Vectis Way on October 7, 2021. Picture: Stuart Vaizey

Driver arrested as pedestrian, 85, dies in van crash

Firefighters and the ambulance service were called to Tipton in Warwick Crescent, Southsea, on August 5 2021. Picture: Stuart Vaizey

Fire crews at high-rise block

Clarendon Street, Fratton. Picture: Google Maps

Pensioner, 89, found dead in city home

Mike Shaw with fellow staff, Jackie Harding and Georgia Blomfield at Iceland in Waterlooville Picture: Habibur Rahman

'Legendary' volunteer, 80, spreads cheer and keeps people safe at supermarket

Ruth Rogers had a Covid vaccination at QA - and is urging everyone eligible to do so Picture: Habibur Rahman

Portsmouth pensioner, 87, 'cross' at people spurning new Covid vaccine

Ivy Kingswell celebrating her 100th birthday. Picture: Allan Hutchings (151755-516)

Appeal for birthday cards as Fareham pensioner turns 105 after beating Covid-19

The collision happened on London Road near Petersfield. Picture: Google Maps

Pensioner, 86, killed in crash on busy Hampshire road

Mick Powell, 75, in hospital during the winter with what he believes was Covid-19.

Former pro wrestler, 75, claims he had Covid-19 in December
A PENSIONER who fell unwell with a mystery illness in December claims he may have been the first British person to contract Covid-19 – almost two months before the first confirmed UK cases.

Susan Hunt, and the flytipping near her home. Pictures: Habibur Rahman

Pensioner slashes leg open on fly-tipped waste outside home

The incident took place yesterday evening

Pensioner pronounced dead following crash

Brian Marshall. Picture: Malcolm Wells (190703-3748)

Pensioner's crash injuries 50 years ago played part in him choking to death on C...

A woman holding hands with a carer.

Carer, 73, who had bike stolen still carries out her rounds

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Royal Mail blasted after residents do not get mail for weeks

Maurice Owens, 97, lives onboard Old Possum in Haslar Marina. On Sunday, he will walk the 170m pier 26 times on Sunday, raising money for the NHS. Picture: Haslar Marina

Gosport pensioner, 97, to walk 2.6 miles for NHS after suffering head injury

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Portsmouth pensioner who was missing for two days found

Janet Thorpe, 55, with her dad Sydney Gill, 85 who has dementia and was mis-sold a top-end Virgin Media TV and internet after ignoring warnings of his condition. Picture: Sarah Standing (280220-9110)

Dementia-diagnosed pensioner sold expensive monthly TV and internet package

Hayling pensioner died from choking, court told