South Pacific

Royal Navy sailors have been conducting war games in the South China Sea despite previously threats from Beijing. Pictured: Royal Navy and Royal New Zealand sailors stand to attention on HMS Tamar’s flight deck.

'War-fighting serials' conducted by Royal Navy despite China warnings

HMS Tamar sailors off the coast of Pitcairn Island. They detonated more than 3.5 tonnes of explosives

'Resounding success' - divers detonate tonnes of explosives on island

Pictured is: Commodore James Blackmore, Commanding Officer of the UK Carrier Strike Group.

HMS Prince of Wales crew hailed after China "harassed" UKCSG

Harrison Ford and Anne Heche in Six Days Seven Nights (1998)

A classic Harrison Ford castaway film is on TV this week - exact time

HMS Prince of Wales, the Royal Navy flagship at the helm of the UK Carrier Strike Group on Operation Highmast, has reached Singapore by sailing through the South China Sea. Pictured: 10 September 2025, F-35B Squadrons, 617 Squadron and 809 NAS, conduct flying operations.

HMS Prince of Wales sails through contested waters ignoring China

A firework display celebrating the independence of Papua New Guinea, which Royal navy sailors aboard HMS Tamar attended.

Honoured HMS Tamar celebrates historic moment in Indo-Pacific

Royal Navy flagship HMS Prince of Wales has reached Singapore on its huge deployment in the Indo-Pacific region. She is leading the UK Carrier Strike Group on Operation Highmast.

HMS Prince of Wales arrives in Singapore with strike group

USCGC Stratton arrives in Busan South Korea. Royal Navy sailors aboard HMS Spey were given a tour of the vessel ahead of the arrival of HMS Prince of Wales.

"Rewarded" Royal Navy sailors invited aboard Michelle Obama USA ship

HMS Prince of Wales has transitioned through the Suez Canal and Red Sea. She has now reached the Indian Ocean. Pictured: The flight deck of HMS Prince of Wales as the ship goes under the Al Salam Bridge whilst transiting the Suez Canal en route to the Red Sea as part of Operation Highmast, on May 24, 2025.

Magnificent HMS Prince of Wales safely passes through Red Sea and Suez

HMS Tamar, alongside Fijian authorities and the New Zealand navy, will be patrolling the Pacific to combat illegal fishing. Picture: Royal Navy

HMS Tamar tackles illegal fishing in Fiji

HMS Tamar off the coast of New Zealand. The Portsmouth patrol vessel is due to head to Fiji for target people illegally fishing in the South Pacific. Picture: Royal Navy

Intense training carried out by HMS Tamar off New Zealand coast

Volcanic eruption in Tonga this year shot water out of the atmosphere

Camelot by CCADS is at the Station Theatre, Hayling Island from September 6-10, 2022

CCADS presents A Night at The Musicals and Camelot at Station Theatre

Grace Campbell as Eva Peron with Jonathan Redwood as Juan Peron in rehearsal. Picture by Tristan Redwood

Fareham Musical Society stage Evita, their first major show since 2019

Henderson Island - formerly also San Juan Bautista and Elizabeth Island - is an uninhabited member of the Pitcairn Islands archipelago in the south Pacific Ocean
Picture: LPhot Joe Cater

Navy sailors find Pacific island has been 'in the wrong place' for 85 years

The Unfriend (Amanda Abbington, Reece Shearsmith, Frances Barber) at CFT, Festival 2022
Photo by Seamus Ryan

Star names announced at Chichester Festival Theatre’s diamond anniversary season
NEW plays by acclaimed TV writer Stephen Moffatt and best-selling Chichester author Kate Mosse, as well as a musical written by Alan Bennett, and adaptations of much-loved children’s classics are among the star attractions of Chichester Festival Theatre’s 60th anniversary season.
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The company of South Pacific at Chichester Festival Theatre, summer 2021. Picture by Johan Persson

Review | South Pacific at Chichester Festival Theatre: 'The performances run gor...

South Pacific is the big show in the Chichester Festival Theatre summer season 2020

Chichester Festival Theatre announces summer season shows

Members of the company in FLOWERS FOR MRS HARRIS at Chichester Festival Theatre, September 2018. Picture by Johan Persson

Chichester theatre announces all shows cancelled this year

South Pacific is the big musical in the Chichester Festival Theatre summer season 2020

Chichester Festival Theatre reveals its summer season

Marie Ridley with Betty Richards of Fareham Musical Society, who have both played the role of Bloody Mary in South Pacific, 33 years apart.

South Pacific brings Fareham Musical Society full circle at Ferneham Hall

Marie Ridley with Betty Richards of Fareham Musical Society, who have both played the role of Bloody Mary in South Pacific, 33 years apart.

South Pacific brings Fareham Musical Society full circle at Ferneham Hall

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Ellen Smith with some of her pupils at Ratu Filise Primary School, Fiji

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