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  • Four Portsmouth-based Royal Navy bomb disposal experts are heading to Afghanistan to play a vital part in the counter explosives effort.
  • A Royal Navy physical trainer is enjoying his five minutes of fame after appearing in a television strongman challenge watched by millions.
  • Work began yesterday at Portsmouth on the first of two new aircraft carriers. As steel cutting commenced on a section of the hull, Portsmouth became the fifth UK shipyard to start construction on the programme. The naval base will be the future home of both Queen Elizabeth Class carriers.
  • Four Royal Navy rowers from Portsmouth have scored an ‘oarsome’ four personal best times at an international indoor rowing competition.
  • Navy Days in Portsmouth this summer is giving visitors the chance to delve into their family’s military past.
  • The Royal Navy’s two newest warships are among the star attractions lined up for this summer’s Navy Days event in Portsmouth.
  • The Royal Navy's Operational Stress Management Team at Portsmouth helped pioneer the now widely used Trauma Risk Management (TRiM) for troops who may have encountered traumatic episodes whilst deployed on operations.
  • Portsmouth-based minehunter HMS Middleton has become the Royal Navy’s first warship to operate new equipment allowing divers to work at greater depths.
  • Christmas came early to Portsmouth Naval Base as staff gathered more than 130 shoeboxes of presents to be sent to needy children abroad.
  • When actor and ex-sailor Shaun Williamson arrived in Portsmouth to star at the Kings Theatre as habitual criminal Norman Stanley Fletcher from 1970s TV show Porridge, he was unprepared for the professionalism of the Royal Navy police staff.