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The care home hosted its first veteran brunch.

Supporting veterans – Horndean care home secures prestigious accreditation

Michelle Towner from Orlaya Floryn Blooms at the Hotwalls Christmas Creative Market

Delight as artists open their studios for Christmas market - in pictures

Portsmouth Depot Manager, Colin Ashcroft hands £3990 cheque to the Royal British Legion

Stagecoach South Donates £3,990 to the Royal British Legion’s Poppy Appeal

Alan Mak MP lays a wreath in Emsworth Memorial Garden on Armistice Day

Havant MP Alan Mak takes part in Armistice Day Act of Remembrance in Emsworth

Gosport Remembrance Sunday parade at Gosport War Memorial Hospital.

Crowds gather for Gosport Remembrance ceremony - pictures

Alan Mak MP lays a wreath during the Remembrance Sunday service held at St James' Church, Emsworth

Havant MP Alan Mak takes part in parade and services to mark Remembrance Sunday

Portsmouth united to honour the fallen on Remembrance Sunday during a service in Guildhall Square.

Portsmouth unites to honour the fallen at emotional remembrance parade

Alan Mak MP selling poppies at Lidl in Manor Road, Hayling Island

Havant MP Alan Mak helps Royal British Legion volunteers on Hayling Island to ra...

Poppy decorated Stagecoach buses

Stagecoach offers free travel to veterans this Remembrance Weekend

The Portsmouth poppy appeal was launched on October 24 with sailors bringing donation boxes from a landing craft involved in the Falklands War. Lt Cdr Steve Cass leads as a poppies are brought ashore from landing craft F8. Poppy Appeal launch at HMNB Portsmouth.

Historic Falklands War landing craft delivers poppies for city appeal

The government has announced that Veterans ID Cards will be an acceptable form of identification for voting in elections.

Veterans ID Cards to be accepted for elections after people blocked

A memorial obelisk to honour those who died during the sinking of HMS Royal Oak is being unveiled. Pictured is the battleship in Portsmouth Harbour prior to the Second World War.

Obelisk honouring those who died on HMS Royal Oak to be unveiled

A landing craft approaching Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6 1944, a scene that the film Saving Private Ryan re-created.

Watch: D-Day war film streaming for free for limited amount of time

Fish and chips.

Watch: National Fish and Chip Day’s fascinating connection to D-Day

The Portsmouth City Council and Royal British Legion D-Day 75 memorial service on Monday 6th June 2022 at the D-Day Stone, Southsea. Visitors laying the wreath by the D-Day Stone, Southsea.

City to pay its respects today at D-Day memorial event - details

D-Day veteran Jack Mortimer gets emotional as he travels to France for the D-Day 80 commemorations. Photo: Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire

Veterans sail out of Portsmouth on an emotional day - In pictures

D-Day veterans told of having “mixed feelings” after they set sail for Normandy for the 80th anniversary commemorations.

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(left to right) Royal Navy Commander Glen Hickson, D-Day veteran Jim Grant, Royal Navy Commodore John Voyce, and D-Day veteran Charles Horne, on board the Brittany Ferries ship Mont St Michel as it prepares to sail from Portsmouth Harbour in the UK to Ouistreham, in Caen, France, carrying 31 D-Day and Normandy veterans who are travelling with the Royal British Legion and Spirit of Normandy Trust to take part in commemorations to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day. Photo credit should read: Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire

People wave D-Day veterans off as ferry to France leaves Portsmouth

D-Day veteran Bernard Morgan reads historic note revealing end of WW2 in Europe.

Watch: D-Day hero reads historic note revealing end of WW2 in Europe

King to become patron of Royal British Legion

Mixed reactions following announcement from Buckingham Palace

King, Queen and Prince of Wales to attend D-Day 80 events

Vice Admiral Clive Johnstone CB CBE, has passed away at the age of 60. He is pictured reviewing the Ceremonial Guard on the flight deck of HMS Duncan in 2018. NATO photo by GBRN LPhot Paul Hall.

"Extraordinary" Vice Admiral dies aged 60

The Red Arrows flay past over Southsea Common on June 5, 2019 for D-Day 75.

Prime Minister to lead the D-Day commemorations in the city

Alan Mak MP meets Falklands War veterans in Havant following the 40th anniversary parade.

Havant MP Alan Mak welcomes Government launch of new veterans' ID card

Luke Delahunty, 49, from Portsmouth, was discharged from the RAF on medical grounds after a motorbike crash left him in a wheelchair. He was invited to join Bravo 22 Company, a theatre company created from veterans, to tell their stories.

Veteran tells how Royal British Legion helped him after life-changing injuries

Tesco has a long association with the Armed Forces

Tesco customers can support Royal British Legion’s Poppy Appeal

Remembrance poppies are undergoing major changes this year. Picture: Tristan Fewings/Getty Images.

Remembrance poppy undergoing major changes

Remembrance Sunday service at Gosport War Memorial Picture: Matthew Clark

Gosport’s Conservatives face allegations of 'politicising' Remembrance Sunday

Gosport’s Conservatives have faced allegations of politicising Remembrance Sunday and the Royal British Legion (RBL).

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Stephen Morgan MP

MP calls for constituents to offer suggestions for Remembrance tribute

The Royal British Legion's new 100% paper poppy, available for Poppy Appeal from October 2023.

Poppy Appeal volunteers sought by Royal British Legion

What the development would look like

Portsmouth Royal British Legion building will be demolished for new flats

An artist's impression

Plan to demolish former RBL building is set to be refused

Vintage military vehicles travelling through Southwick last year. Picture: Tom Morton

Military convoy to travel through Southwick for Armed Forces Day

Veteran Peter Backlog ahead of Remembering National Service - 60 years on, a Royal British Legion commemoration event to mark the service and sacrifice of all National Service veterans, at the National Memorial Arboretum in Alrewas, Staffordshire. Picture date: Tuesday May 16, 2023. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Jacob King/PA Wire

Fareham veteran joins Princess Anne to commemorate end of National Service

Peter Backlog of Fareham pictured now and in 1955 during his National Service days Picture: Royal British Legion

'Bring it back': Fareham veteran recalls happy days in National Service

The new plastic-free poppy (Photo: Royal British Legion)

Royal British Legion announce new plastic-free Remembrance Day poppies

Artist impression of the plans

Former RBL building set to be replaced with flats

Ready to bust ghosts at the Cosplay for Poppies event in Havant. Pictured: Andy Hornby (44) and Craig Braisby (48). Picture: Mike Cooter (051122)

Hampshire Cosplay bring the force and help fundraise at Havant Tesco

War veterans David John Dade (Left) and Ken Sprowles at the launch of the Royal British Legion's Poppy Appeal in central London (photo: Getty Images)

Annual Poppy Appeal is launched across the UK

Wreaths lay at the foot of the Cenotaph after the Remembrance Day (getty images)

What you need to know about Remembrance Day

ROYAL NAVY “ON THE TOWN” FOR LONDON POPPY DAY Pictured: Captain John Voyce and his team collecting for the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal in Fenchurch Street Underground station, London. Over 200 uniformed sailors from the Royal Navy will converge on the capital on 4th November for London Poppy Day after last year’s fundraising effort was scaled back due to the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions.

HMS Sultan personnel get ready for London Poppy Day

World War Two veteran Bernard Beckett visits HMS Collingwood to celebrate his birthday on Monday 31st October 2022 Pictured: Bernard Beckett blowing out the candles of his cake at HMS Collingwood, Gosport Picture: Habibur Rahman

HMS Collingwood welcomes a Second World War veteran back - after 82 years

UK November train strikes: When are the next RMT strikes and how will industrial action impact Sunderland and the Metro? (Photo by Hollie Adams/Getty Images)

Network Rail November rail strikes - new dates

Havant MP Alan Mak launches the Havant Poppy Appeal at TESCO on Solent Road.

Havant MP launches Havant Poppy Appeal with local volunteers

Flats that could replace the Royal British Legion Club in Cosham

Royal British Legion club could be replaced by four-storey block of flats

Phyllis Restall, a 92-year-old a resident at Pear Tree Court in Horndean.

Hordean care home residents aged 64 to 100 knit dozens of remembrance poppies

COMMENT: Buy a poppy to help our armed forces community

Remembrance service in Portchester in 2018 Picture: Duncan Shepherd

List of Remembrance events taking place this week

Nicky Stoneman with her crocheted post box 'topper' on a Remembrance theme, Burrill Avenue. Picture: Chris Moorhouse (jpns 081121-21)

Meet the yarn-bomber who has transformed a post box in Cosham

Remembrance Sunday is this weekend.

Why are there different coloured poppies for Remembrance Day?

Cascades shopping centre, Portsmouth. Picture: Chris Moorhouse.

Here's where you can buy poppies in Portsmouth

The Service on Remembrance Sunday morning in 2013' held at The Portsmouth Naval Memorial on Southsea Common, commemorating all those lost at sea in WWI and WWII. Picture: Malcolm Wells

When does Remembrance Sunday 2021 take place?

The Royal Navy Air Engineering Technicians from HMS Sultan Picture: LPhot Kevin Walton

HMS Sultan trainees abseil down Spinnaker Tower for Royal British Legion

Mike Homer, 82, has raised more than £3,000 for the Royal British Legion by visiting 100 different club members across the country in just 100 days. Credit: Mike Homer

Fareham poppy seller finishes country-wide tour to aid Royal British Legion

Sarah Veal (48), Jazmine Woodward (22), Kieran Slade (18), Shania Erdman (24), Barbara Veal (74) and Jessica Elshaw (16, seated) prepare for Harry Potter night outside of the outside of The Book Shop in Lee-On-The-Solent. Picture: Mike Cooter (240621)

Bookshop’s Harry Potter night a ‘phenomenal’ success

A Royal British Legion poppy seller. Picture: Lewis Stickley/PA Wire

Royal British Legion to stop selling merchandise in the EU due to Brexit red tap...

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