user: Article: The Portsmouth South MP apologised in June last year for conducting an "inappropriate friendship" with a vulnerable female constituent.
He resigned from the Liberal Democrats in September after he had the whip removed but remained an MP.
The 68-year-old, who has battled health issues, said he hoped voters would accept he had paid for his "mistake".
Mr Hancock said he was still fit to do the job despite undergoing major heart operations and recently spending time at a mental health unit.
A civil action against him was dropped last year when the complainant agreed to a confidential settlement and the MP issued an apology.
He told BBC News: "I'm going to stand for sure, I've made this decision because my health is so much better and I think I owe it to a lot of people who have supported me.
"Once you've been an MP for as long as I have it's hard to just walk away.
"I think if enough people realise that I'm like everyone, I'm a fallible human being who made a mistake but paid a very high price for it... I think I could [win]."
He will go head-to-head with his former party colleague Gerald Vernon-Jackson who will be standing for the Liberal Democrats.
But Mr Hancock said he felt he "did not owe anything" to his old party and was not concerned about taking their votes.
He has been an MP in Portsmouth since 1984 and won with a majority of more than 5,000 votes in 2010.
He has also served as a Portsmouth councillor, which he carried out alongside his MP duties, until he lost his Fratton seat in the local elections last year.
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Summarize: Disgraced MP Mike Hancock has told BBC News he will stand in the general election as an independent candidate.


Article: But for four green-keeping students from Greenmount Agricultural College in Antrim, it's become a reality - sort of.
As the whistle blows at the start of Saturday's FA Cup final, they won't be playing on the pitch - but they'll have worked on it.
And while the players regroup in the dressing room at half time, the Greenmount students will be making running repairs to the grass to keep the stars safe.
It's all down to their tutor who entered them as a team in a professional green-keeping skills competition, which they won.
"The prize is an all-expenses trip to Wembley to the FA Cup final to see how exactly the pitch is maintained and how it's looked after and what goes into the preparations for a final," said Gavin White, who is a Horticulture foundation degree student.
And as first year Sports Turf student Michael Dundee explained, they will also get to take over the pitch at half-time and after the match.
"At half-time we'll go out with the forks to repair the divots and then again help the team to repair the pitch and clear up the pitch ready for the play-off games on Sunday," he said.
The four students are all at different stages of learning, but they pulled together for the opportunity to brush shoulders with the likes of Cech, Costa, Sanchez and Ozil.
For Level-3 Sports Turf student John Kennedy, it's a professional dream.
"It's a fantastic opportunity to see a stadium maintained at such a high standard," he said.
But for football fan and Level Three ground-keeping student Jon Crawford, it's the trip of a lifetime.
"It's pretty exciting that it's Chelsea in the final, being a massive Chelsea fan," he said.
"After such a good season it's nice to be able to see them and especially to go to Wembley to do it as well."
He will also be hoping to grab a little taste of the limelight for himself.
"I'll just go out on the pitch and maybe swing my arms about so people can see me on TV or something," he laughed.
But there'll be no time for celebrating at the end of the match.
The four will be hard at it with the Wembley ground-keeping team, repairing the pitch for the play-offs the next day.
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Summarize: Being on the pitch during a Wembley final is a dream-come-true for just a few elite footballers.


Article: Thai energy drinks firm Carabao has signed a three-year deal as sponsors of the competition won in 2016-17 by Manchester United.
All 48 League One and League Two clubs will be in the 13:00 BST draw, plus 22 of the 24 Championship teams. Hull City and Middlesbrough will not feature after finishing 18th and 19th in the Premier League this season.
Ties will be played on 8 and 9 August.
Football League chief executive Shaun Harvey will be joined by ex-Arsenal and Chelsea midfielder Emmanuel Petit and Brian Davidson, the British ambassador to Thailand, for the draw in the capital Bangkok.
Jose Mourinho's United side beat Southampton 3-2 in February's final thanks to a late Zlatan Ibrahimovic goal.
The 2018 final will be at Wembley on Sunday, 25 February.
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Summarize: The EFL Cup first-round draw will take place on Friday - in Thailand.


Article: The Â£1.6bn nuclear-powered 7,400-tonne vessel was given the title HMS Ambush in a ceremony at Faslane naval base.
It is the second of the navy's Astute-class attack submarines and was launched in January 2011 at the BAE Systems shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness.
It has been undergoing sea trials since arriving at its home port at Faslane in September last year.
HMS Ambush is due to enter operational service later this year.
Commanding Officer Peter Green said: "The crew are immensely proud to mark the commissioning and to see the culmination of many months of hard work readying HMS Ambush for service with the Royal Navy.
"The crew are looking forward to the challenges ahead and to exploring the full range of the submarine's capabilities before she enters full operational service later this year."
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assistant: The Royal Navy's most advanced attack submarine has officially joined its fleet on the Clyde.