Pompey Supporters’ Trust – Portsmouth’s sole hope for survival – have reacted to the news of Portpin’s withdrawal to buy the financially-stricken club by declaring “this is the moment we have been waiting for”.

DEBUT novelist Aravind Adiga won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction last night beating, among others, hotly tipped Irish author Sebastian Barry.

Debut novelist Aravind Adiga won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction tonight for his work which shows “the dark side of India”.