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A High Court injunction has been put in place to deter ‘urban explorers’ and trespassers from risking their lives to ...
An injunction to stop urban explorers visiting a historic fort has been granted. Spitbank Fort, between Portsmouth and the ...
The British crew were the only team to get all their scores in the top three of each of today’s four short races ...
Three manmade island forts off the coast of Portsmouth have been put on the market for £9m. They were built about 150 years ago as part of sea defences against a feared French invasion. Two of ...
Three Victorian forts built in to protect Britain from French invasion plunge in value by £2.25m after failing to sell 'Palmerston's Follies', which sit in the Solent off Portsmouth, are now used ...
Spitbank Fort, which stands in the middle of the approach into Portsmouth Harbour, flanked either side and to the front by its two sister forts: No Man's Land Fort and Horsesands Fort, has gone on ...
Known as the Solent forts, the circular granite islands were constructed in the 1860s to defend the city of Portsmouth from the French and have, more recently, been renovated into lavish nautical ...
During World War Two, gun emplacements on the forts formed part of Portsmouth's coastal artillery defences. No Man's Fort appeared in a 1972 episode of Doctor Who, as Jon Pertwee's Doctor fought ...
Located a few miles off the coast of England's Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight are three sea forts that would be the envy of any Bond villain. Spitbank Fort, No Man's fort, and Horse Sands Fort ...
Three manmade island forts off the coast of Portsmouth have been put on the market for £9m. They were built about 150 years ago as part of sea defences against a feared French invasion. Two of ...