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David Ralph of the Isle of Wight County Press Camera Club took this photo of aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales of the Isle of Wight today. ISLANDERS spotted aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales off the Isle of Wight as she departed Portsmouth. One of the most powerful surface warships ever constructed in the UK, her flight deck is 70m wide and 280m long enough space for three football pitches. HMS Prince of Wales departed 24 hours ahead of her older sister HMS Queen Elizabeth. While Queen Elizabeth is now fully operational, her 65,000-tonne younger sister has trials and tests to now complete.
2009 - Most children delivered at a single birth to survive
Nadya Suleman (USA) claimed headlines across the world on 26 January 2009 when she gave birth to six boys and two girls at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Bellflower, California, USA.
The babies were conceived with the aid of In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) treatment and were nine weeks premature when they were delivered by Caesarean section.
The Suleman octuplets are only the second full set of octuplets to be born alive in the United States and, one week after their birth, surpassed the previous worldwide survival rate for a complete set of octuplets set by the Chukwu octuplets in 1998.
The 59-year-old victim was pulled from the water while unconscious in Clarence Pier, Portsmouth, yesterday afternoon.
She was rushed to hospital in a critical condition, but later died.
A spokesman for Hampshire Police said: We were called shortly after 5.45pm on Saturday April 24 to a report that a woman was unconscious in the water on Clarence Esplanade, Southsea. Officers attended and a 59-year-old woman was taken to Queen Alexandra Hospital. Despite best efforts, she was sadly pronounced dead on Saturday evening.
A woman in her 40s is now in a life-threatening condition in hospital, according to the South Central Ambulance Service (SCAS)
One of the Hovertravel fleet of hovercraft at Ryde terminal on the Isle of Wight. HOVERTRAVEL have dismissed earlier reports that one of its hovercraft travelling from the Isle of Wight was responsible for a woman being taken to hospital. Emergency services led by Solent Coastguard rescued a woman from the sea in Portsmouth Harbour following an incident at Southsea near the Hovertravel terminal. In a statement released by Hovertravel this evening (Saturday), a spokesman said: Contrary to various media reports, we can confirm the Solent Flyer was not involved with the incident involving a body in water but the crew were alerted.