Umami Street Food – Star & Crescent

The Southsea Food Tour: Umami Street Food

19th May 2017

Continuing her quest to eat out at every Southsea eatery worth eating in, Emily Priest drops in to a delightful global fusion restaurant to sample ‘the fifth taste’. What is the fifth taste you may wonder? It’s meaty [… read more ]

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Troubadour of the Vastness: Gareth Rees 1948-2018

16th April 2018

The S&C team are very sad to announce that our Contributing Editor, Gareth Rees, died peacefully at home on Saturday. Tom Sykes remembers this extraordinary gentleman. I was just one of many people Gareth inspired [… read more ]

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What Impact Will Portsmouth Football Club’s “Pompey” Trademark Registration have on the City?

11th April 2018

Solicitor and founder of Grid Law Solicitors, David Walker, explores the implications of PFC’s move to trademark ‘Pompey’, and asks what problems the Club may encounter along the way. Portsmouth Football Club has applied to [… read more ]

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‘They Believed Me’: Saying Goodbye to a Pompey Domestic Violence Helpline

9th April 2018

On 31st March 2018, the Aurora Helpline and Referral Service for victims and survivors of domestic violence and abuse closed, following recent changes to local authority contracts commissioning the service. In its 6 years of [… read more ]

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MEP to Address Air Pollution Danger in Portsmouth

3rd April 2018

Green MEP and air quality campaigner Keith Taylor will be discussing the poor state of air quality in Portsmouth at a public meeting on Wednesday evening hosted by the #LetPompeyBreathe campaign group. He will also [… read more ]

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No Lap Dancing in Albert Road Thank You: A Councillor Speaks

2nd April 2018

Portsmouth Liberal Democrat councillor Suzy Horton never expected to spend several years owning a folder with ‘lap-dancing club’ written on it. Nor could she have predicted the twists and turns of the planning application process for [… read more ]