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 ...

"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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

HISTORIANS have appealed for help in finding the former home of a Second World War hero so they can put up a commemorative plaque in his honour. Bill Sparks was one of a famous group of commandos ...

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 ...

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, ...

The Cockleshell 22 team retraced the route of the Cockleshell Heroes to raise money for three military charities A group of former Royal Marines has completed a recreation of one of the most daring ...