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I tried the Royal Navy’s new fitness test – and it wasn’t what I expected

The Royal Navy has brought in a new standard test to ensure recruits are up to snuff – I headed to Portsmouth to give it a go

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Southampton vs Portsmouth was a long-awaited derby match rooted in ‘pure hatred’

The south coast’s Championship bubble match never got its big moment but utter contempt is alive and well in Hampshire

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Portsmouth’s John Swift: ‘Rivalry with Southampton is so big that the game feels like a final’

Pompey midfielder tells Ben Fisher that playing in first South Coast derby league meeting in 13 years is bucket-list worthy

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Kings Of Leon to headline last night of Victorious Festival

The Portsmouth event has been beset by controversy and cancellations.

Evening Standard

Bands boycott festival after group claim they were ‘cut off’ over Palestine flag

The bands pulled out of the Victorious Festival in Portsmouth after The Mary Wallopers claimed they were ‘cut off’ for displaying a Palestinian flag.

Evening Standard

Irish band call festival statement ‘misleading’ after being ‘cut off’

The Mary Wallopers were performing at Victorious Festival in Portsmouth when they claimed they were ‘cut off’ for displaying a Palestinian flag.

Evening Standard

The Mary Wallopers ‘cut off’ at Victorious Festival for ‘having Palestinian flag’ on stage

Irish band The Mary Wallopers said they were “cut off” from performing at Victorious Festival in Portsmouth on Friday (22 August) for “having a Palestinian flag on the stage”.

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Anti-immigrant protesters face off with counter-demonstrators in Portsmouth

Police watched as people on each side gathered on the steps outside the city’s council offices.

Evening Standard

Portsmouth student from Turkey aims for Oxbridge after all grade 9 GCSE success

Tuna Lokman, who came to the UK when he was 10, says his dream is to get into Oxford or Cambridge to study maths or data science.

The Independent UK

Man dies and another missing after inflatable boat crash near Portsmouth

Police searching for man in his 60s after fatal collision involving inflatable boat

The Independent UK

Migrant hotel protests: Police braced for further violence across country with more demonstrations planned

Further protests are planned for Bournemouth, Liverpool and Portsmouth this week

The Independent UK

Boy who met royal couple took his own life after troubled childhood – inquest

Zak Kay was found hanging eight years after meeting the Prince and Princess of Wales in Portsmouth, Hampshire.

The Independent UK

Last Falklands era warship given ‘respectful farewell’ as it heads to scrapyard

Type 82 destroyer HMS Bristol was decommissioned nearly five years ago.

Evening Standard

Man charged with murder of 32-year-old mother-of-three

The body of Samantha Murphy was found at an address in Portsmouth, Hampshire, on June 5.

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Rhode Island graduation party turns tragic as building collapse leaves 15-year-old dead and more injured

Tragedy strikes Rhode Island graduation party.

The Guardian - UK

Portsmouth girl’s balcony fall death was accident, says coroner

Minnie-Rae Dunn, eight, fell from cluttered balcony after persuading mother to let her play outside

Evening Standard

British woman setting sail to break Arctic record made possible by melting ice

Ella Hibbert, 28, is preparing to set sail from Portsmouth

The Guardian - UK

Brexit food control post at Portsmouth ‘may have to be demolished’, says port director

Exclusive: £25m hi-tech facility at terminal had been called ‘white elephant’ even before latest EU deal scrapping some health and veterinary checks

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The Independent UK

Former Wren, 99, remembers VE Day celebrations 80 years on

Mabel Kidney, of Portsmouth, recalls her elderly mother’s relief after living through two world wars.

The Independent UK

Navy flagship to sail to Indo-Pacific in ‘powerful message’ of UK capability

Thousands of families and well-wishers are expected to line the harbour walls at Portsmouth on Tuesday

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"Ozzy jumped from one subject to another with astonishing rapidity, like some frantic pigeon": A mind-mincing encounter with Black Sabbath on the Sabotage tour

By 1976, Black Sabbath already had a huge heritage to live up to. We joined them on the road in Portsmouth

The Guardian - UK

Letter: Eric Rimmington obituary

Celia Clark writes: His murals vividly depict life in the dockyard city of Portsmouth as it recovered from the second world war

Evening Standard

Royal Navy tugboat crews to walk out in contract dispute

Unite said 300 of its members at Devonport, Portsmouth, Faslane, Great Harbour Greenock and Kyle of Lochalsh will take industrial action in March.

The Independent UK

Young people outside London fear they’ll ‘never succeed’ as regional optimism hits new low

Exclusive: Data reveals young people outside the capital feel increasingly pessimistic about their financial future, job prospects, and chances of homeownership

Evening Standard

Royal Navy flagship sails to prepare ahead of deployment to Australia

HMS Prince of Wales left Portsmouth Naval Base for ‘pre-deployment training’ and to collect stores.

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