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Grant Shapps delivering a speech on stage during the opening day of the annual Conservative Party Conference in Manchester on October 1, 2023. Picture: JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images.

Powerful "hunter-killer" attack submarines to be built

All set to travel to Ukraine

South region timber and builders merchants’ support for Ukraine

Freddy Mahoney, 12

Football mad amputee, 12, set to play for England team

The 307 Squadron Project has worked with The D-Day Story Museum to host an event about The Polish D-Day Story.

The D-Day Story Museum will be hosting a unique event this weekend

Anne-marie and Rachel in the mountains.

UK mum shares how she jets off on 48-hour holidays for £16

Julie Wendell is not missing Madeleine McCann, DNA results have confirmed - Credit: Getty Images and Dr Phil

Woman who claimed she was Madeleine McCann gets answers after DNA test

Judy and Andrew Walker with Olha Mazer and her daughter Dasha Makovetska

‘Being here has helped us to realise how kind people are’

Svitlana Kovda and Mykola Mogyrov

Svitlana Kovda is proof that love is stronger than war

Comedian and historian Al Murray with a pigeon (Photo: SEGA)

Research shows 37% of Brits don’t know when Second World War happened

Pictured: Lou Herron, training at Hampshire Barbell, Hilsea. Picture: Habibur Rahman

'I just love the challenge': Meet the radiographer who's worth her weight

Victoria and Steven Hampton-Bull were married at the Holiday Inn, at Fareham, on September 24. Credit: Carla Mortimer Photography

Fareham couple get their happily ever after

Jordan Henderson of England celebrates after scoring the team's first goal against Senegal at the Al Bayt Stadium. (Photo by Dan Mullan/Getty Images)

How to watch France v England at the 2022 World Cup

Declan Rice said England should be feared by everyone at the World Cup after their Group B victory, and his former coach Liam Manning agrees

Full schedule of today’s World Cup games, channels and kick off times

NATO stands for the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

What are article 4 and 5 of the NATO Treaty?

The auroch skull that Dannielle Keys found on Blyth Beach. A walker has discovered an 'almost complete' skull of an ancestor to today's domesticated cows on the town's beach

Giant skull of cattle ancestor found washed up on UK beach

Hampshire Barbell Club members who competed in the European Championships in Poland. Back (from left) Cleo Bellenis, Jo Gilham, Sara Wallace. Front: Lou Herron, Przemek Borak (coach), Roly Brading and Jo MacManus. Picture by Habibur Rahman

The golden girls – Portsmouth weightlifters produce record-breaking performances...
Three members of a Portsmouth-based weightlifting club struck gold in the European Masters Championships.

Ewa Fraczak, owner of Blossom Boutique.

Blossom Boutique in Southsea is celebrating its fifth anniversary

Almost half of adults worry they will have to compromise on the quality of their...

Forest Green have signed former Crystal Palace striker Connor Wickham.

L1 latest: Pompey rivals sign former Premier League striker

Waterlooville's Brandon Coleman will play in the IBSA Blind Football European Championship semi-finals with his England team-mates later this week

Waterlooville ace and England blind football team-mates reach Euro semis

WINGS: From left: Barnbrook systems managing director Tony Barnett and Sir Donald Spiers, then chairman of Farnborough Aerospace Consortium at the 2018 Farnborough International Airshow in front of a helicopter with Barnbrook System's fuel switch

Fareham firm win contract to provide cutting-edge fuel switches to rescue fleet

Paul Gray from Hayling Helps Ukraine

Hayling helps Ukraine campaign sets off on mission to Poland

Joel McIntyre will face Chad Sugden for the vacant English light-heavyweight title in July Picture: Barry Zee

Joel McIntyre explains late South Parade Pier headline act bout cancellation and...

Joel McIntyre is all smiles after his first-round stoppage victory over Nikita Basin last October Picture: Barry Zee

Supporters might not get longest of looks at Leigh Park's Joel McIntyre if he ha...

Illia, Jo Cullimore, Ester and Nastia

Waterlooville woman to bring teen Ukrainian refugees back to the UK

Pictured: Manager, Paul Mills behind the bar Picture: Habibur Rahman

Southsea pub enjoys £7,000 revamp ready for Queen's jubilee street party

Paul Mann and Rupert Wright prepare to take donations to a refugee camp in Poland

Huge community collection for Ukrainian refugees safely reaches Poland
STAFF at a firm in Clanfield have praised the ‘overwhelming’ community spirit after two full truckloads of supplies have reached Ukrainian refugees in Poland.

Ethan Dennis in Kyiv. the ex-Royal Navy seaman who travelled to Ukraine to fight claims he was held at gunpoint by special forces - and helped to arrest a Russian spy. Photo: Ethan Dennis / SWNS

City man tells his tale of fighting in Ukraine and being held at gun point

Soldiers from 12 Regiment, Royal Artillery, standing in front of the armoured Stomer vehicle, which can fire a number of high-velocity missiles into the air to destroyer jets and helicopters. Pictured left to right: Gunner Connor Cowan, Gunner Ben Ratcliffe, Lance Bombardier Ben Longley and Bombardier Robin Hearn.

Soldiers are 'motivated' to 'make the world a safer place' on mission to Poland

Luke Hamblin has already made one trip to Poland - and is preparing for a larger mission on March 23.

Mission to deliver tonnes of vital aid to Poland needs community help

Pictured: 16 Regiment Royal Artillery troops marching past the new Sky Sabre system on January 27. The system is now being deployed to Poland to defend Nato's eastern flank from Russia Picture: Habibur Rahman

Army's new Sky Sabre missile system to go to Poland to defend against Russia

Laura Rice and her husband Ken, the Hampshire couple have set off in their motorhome with "literally a tonne of sweets" to offer assistance to people fleeing Ukraine. . Photo credit should read: Laura Rice/PA Wire

Hampshire couple returns from Ukraine border after dropping donations

Donations for Ukraine, ready to picked up by fighters on Thursday 10th March 2022 Pictured: Donations at the Portsmouth News office, Lakeside, Portsmouth Picture: Habibur Rahman

Men from Portsmouth and Southampton ready themselves to fight in Ukraine

A Ukrainian woman holds her 3-month-old baby at the Western Railway Station as they flee Ukraine on March 9, 2022 in Budapest, Hungary.

DEC charities are providing emergency aid to the people of Ukraine - how to dona...

Jet2 is suspending flights to Krakow between 24 March and 26 May (Photo: Shutterstock)

Jet2 suspends flights to Poland for two months amid Ukraine war

Veteran British Army sniper Shane Matthew, pictured, pictured as he passes thousands of refugees in scenes he described as 'heartbreaking'

Veteran sniper describes 'heartbreaking' queues of refugees in Ukraine

Members of Bridge to Unity, from Emsworth, delivering supplies to the border between Poland and Ukraine to help Ukrainian refugees With aid workers in Poland after dropping off supplies

Ukraine war: Emsworth group reaches Ukraine-Poland border

Laura Rice and her husband Ken Picture: Laura Rice/PA Wire

Hampshire couple head to Poland-Ukraine border with a tonne of sweets

COMMENT: Compassion really restores our faith in human nature

Pictured is: (l-r) Terry Buckel (50) and Steve Holland (55) with just a handful of the supplies which have been donated. Picture: Sarah Standing (040322-217)

Navy veterans launch aid drive to help Ukrainian refugees in Poland

Laly's Pharmacy set up a donation campaign for Ukraine Pictured: Georgia Davis with some of the donations at Laly's Pharmacy, Fratton, Portsmouth on 3 March 2022 Picture: Habibur Rahman

Laly's pharmacies in Portsmouth to accept donations to Ukraine from all stores

Hanna Greentree from Fareham wants to move her mum Iryna from Ukraine to the UK amid fears Russia will invade.L-R: Melania Greentree, Iryna Pavlova, Hanna Greentree and Matthew Greentree

Fareham woman launches desperate rescue mission to save mum trapped in Ukraine

Hanna Greentree from Fareham with her husband Matthew, their daughter Melania and her mum Iryna

Fareham woman's plea to Britain to help her mum flee bombed Ukrainian city fails

Royal Mail have announced the dates for when you need to send letters and parcels in time for Christmas. Picture: Dean Atkins.

Royal Mail last Christmas post dates

Deborah and Huw Curram

Powerlifting priest pumps weights for championship in charity bid

Mikey McKinson with his WBO Global and European and WBC international silver and world youth belts. Picture: Stuart Martin (220421-7042)

Pompey Problem Mikey McKinson sets sights on 'world-level' scene after overcomin...

Mikey McKinson, right, spent some time with former WBA world lightweight champion Ant Crolla during his training stint in Manchester

Las Vegas or Manchester? Portsmouth's Mikey McKinson is not bothered as he puts ...

Ibiza could be among the Spanish holiday islands moved to the amber travel list (Shutterstock)

These popular Spanish holiday islands ‘could be moved onto the amber travel list...

Mateusz Bereznicki. Picture: Mariusz Konfiszer

Gosport boxer Mateusz Bereznicki's arrival on European stage after under-22 cham...

Supermarket chain Mere 'to become cheapest in UK' as it plans to open 300 budget...

Mateusz Bereznicki, left, and Moldova's Andrei Zaplitini. Picture: 'Suzuki Boxing Night'

Gosport boxer Mateusz Bereznicki claims another victory ahead of under-22 Europe...

Chicken products sold in Tesco, Sainsbury's and B&M found to contain salmonella - what customers need to know (Photo: FSA)

More batches of chicken products sold in Tesco, Sainsbury's and B&M recalled aft...

Photographer Olly Clarke, from Emsworth. Picture by Ash Black Photpgraphy.

Photographer turns his passion into a puzzle business

Marcin Jedrysiak from Portsmouth with a pair of his trousers which froze solid in his garden last night, as temperatures across the UK plummeted to their lowest point in two decades. Picture: Roger Arbon/Solent News & Photo Agency

Portsmouth man's trousers stand-up unaided after becoming frozen solid

Mateusz Bereznicki, left, is crowned Polish senior elite heavyweight champion

Gosport boxer 'Big Bez' in contention to make it to Tokyo Olympics