A memorial has been unveiled in Hampshire in honour of the 'Cockleshell Heroes' - the Royal Marines who took part in a courageous and gruelling attack on Bordeaux during the Second World War. Only two ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 120-year-old Eastney Swimming Pool in Portsmouth is to be torn down - Solent News & Photo Agency A Liberal Democrat council ...

Eastney Swimming Pool in Southsea has been shut for nearly five years A century-old swimming pool once used to train World War Two's Cockleshell Heroes is set to be demolished. Eastney Swimming Pool ...

In the evening darkness of December 7, 1942, the attack phase of Operation Frankton, the codename for perhaps the most audacious special forces operation of the Second World War, was about to get ...

"Having just paddled the same route that these guys did, and then have the French remember them like we do, is very touching." Former marine Ben Mason, from Christchurch, joined the 10-man Cockleshell ...

Former Royal Marine and ex leader of the Lib Dems Lord Paddy Ashdown has officially launched a daring expedition by injured war heroes. Members of the Pilgrim Bandits charity, many of them amputees, ...

THEY don't make war movies like The Cockleshell Heroes anymore. I'm not, by that statement, suggesting that director Jose Ferrer's 1955 epic is in any way better than modern big screen true life ...

In his new book, Lord Ashdown pays tribute to the Cockleshell Heroes in this exclusive extract, tension climbs as the canoeists prepare to do or die Willaim Sparks was one of the Cockleshell Heroes, ...

A century-old swimming pool once used to train World War Two's Cockleshell Heroes is set to be demolished. Eastney Swimming Pool in Southsea, Portsmouth, has been closed since the first Covid-19 ...