The Latest Breaking News from Portsmouth

HMS Diamond had just left Portsmouth Naval Base, Hampshire, when it answered a mayday call.

The aircraft carrier left Portsmouth Naval Base, Hampshire, to head a carrier strike group which will include warships, helicopters and fighter jets.

We’ve been through a lot together, Matt. The MH app (still available to download on Google Play /App store), the hardcore parkour running videos, the TikToks. How you managed to fit in a decade of ministerial experience – culture secretary, health secretary, minister for Portsmouth – I’ll never know.

Jorja Halliday, 15, from Portsmouth, Hampshire, died from rare heart inflammation in the early hours of 24 September last year after testing positive for Covid-19 hours earlier

The Catholic Bishop of Portsmouth, Philip Egan, criticised churchgoers' meagre offerings in a four-page pastoral letter called "The Future of the Diocese"

Nicky, 37, and Simon, 40, met at a training weekend for party activists in 2010. It was love at first sight for Nicky and the couple are now married and live together in Portsmouth.

The Portsmouth native is good company, cheerfully goofing around for our entertainment, but the set feels one draft short of its full potential

Tory leadership candidate describes reliance on self, NHS and people of Portsmouth in video pitch for No 10

Families and well-wishers lined the harbour walls and the Round Tower in Old Portsmouth to welcome the aircraft carrier