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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

It's time to raise the curtain.

A book called The Cockleshell Heroes came out when I was ten, and it immediately joined my pantheon of smashing yarns about World War II, along with The Colditz Story. It had everything: heroism, ...

A team from the Royal Navy has canoed and walked 185 miles (300km) to mark the 75th anniversary of one of the most daring operations of World War Two. Members of the Naval Service Recovery Centre ...