"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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, ...

Renowned for forming 50 per cent of the merchandise of Sweet Molly Malone, the cockle is praised by Alan Davidson in his encyclopedic volume North Atlantic Seafood as "a valuable and delicious food".