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Month: March 2018

Memoir

A Pompey Nurse Turned Novelist

30th March 2018

45 years ago, Christine Lawrence started her career as a psychiatric nurse at Knowle Hospital near Fareham. Later in life she would publish Caught in the Web, a fictionalisation of those early experiences. How did [… read more ]

Culture

The Southsea Food Tour: The Harbour Coffee House

29th March 2018

Emily Priest continues her foodie adventures around the city and finds that sometimes the best places are right under your nose.  I have passed The Harbour Coffee Shop in  Commerical Road countless times, but it [… read more ]

Culture

Satire. Brexit. And Bananas? The Endless Village Comes to Aspex

28th March 2018

The Endless Village is a satirical art exhibition coming to Aspex from Thursday 29th March and featuring archival material, oral history interviews and moving image work in the form of a satirical sitcom, accompanied by [… read more ]

News

Owen Jones Comes to Portsmouth to ‘Unseat The Tories’

27th March 2018

On Thursday 29th March, Owen Jones, author, columnist and Labour Party campaigner, is coming to Portsmouth for a mass-canvassing session open to all, followed by a Q and A session. Cal Corkery, Chair of Portsmouth [… read more ]

Memoir

The Inbetween: Following the Track to Fratton Station

22nd March 2018

University of Portsmouth student Phoebe Hedges finds a new mystery in a very familiar train journey. It was the end of my first year at university and I travelled home for the summer. Yet each [… read more ]

Culture

The Southsea Food Tour: The Southsea Deli

21st March 2018

The latest addition to Southsea’s eateries proves a treat and leaves a lasting impression on S&C’s food critic, Emily Priest. The Southsea Deli opened back in February and is a unique place in Southsea – perhaps [… read more ]

Fiction

Pompey: No One Comes Near Our Greatness

20th March 2018

In the interests of political balance, S&C has appointed a new columnist who tells it how it is and doesn’t care who he offends. Whatever you’re thinking he’s thinking but, unlike you, he has the [… read more ]

News

Operation Make: Helping Veterans Transition to Civvy Street

19th March 2018

Portsmouth social enterprise Company of Makers have won a place in a national crowdfunding competition to raise money for sewing equipment that will enable them to help Armed Forces veterans and their families make the [… read more ]

Culture

The Grim Repost: How the Internet is Hurting Art

16th March 2018

While social media has been a boon to visual artists, all too often their work is defaced, hijacked and plagiarised on it. The Galleon’s Anna Ryan explains. Digital media helps artists promote their work instantly [… read more ]

Memoir

Isle of Dinosaurs: A Journey into the Lost World of the Wight

15th March 2018

As a Portsmouth-based planetary modeller, David Angus hand-makes representations of the planets and their terrains. In 2001, a childhood dream came true: he was asked to work with the BBC on their Dinosaur Island show. Long ago [… read more ]

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Welfare not Warfare: Protest Against Benefits Cuts in Portsmouth

27th June 2025

Portsmouth and District Unite Community is calling a protest against the savage cuts to Personal Independence (PIP) Universal Credit and Employment Support Allowance (ESA), reports trades unionist and activist Alan Burgess. The protest will take [… read more ]

News

What’s Missing from Local News in Portsmouth? And How do we Fix it?

11th June 2025

S&C Editor Dr Sarah Cheverton shares insights from her PhD research on the local news crisis in her second article for Indie News Week (9th-16th June 2025). Building on her first article about the local [… read more ]

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What’s Happened to Local News in the UK and What Does it Mean for Portsmouth?

8th June 2025

This week, to mark Indie News Week 2025, S&C Editor Dr Sarah Cheverton is drawing from her recent PhD research on the local news crisis to talk about the dramatic changes to local news over [… read more ]

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Local News Crisis, Portsmouth: Sign the Petition to Help Regenerate Independent News

8th June 2025

This week – 9th-16th June – is Indie News Week, showcasing the importance of funding community-based journalism across the UK. The campaign’s organisers, the Public Interest News Foundation, has launched a petition calling on the government to support independent local news publishers and even up the playing field between independent local publishers and the large news corporations that own most of the UK’s local news titles.  [… read more ]

News

Record Breaking £11 Billion is Still Not Enough to End the Special Educational Needs Crisis

17th May 2025

Parents and teachers left ‘overwhelmed’ by the failing SEN system in England’s schools, reports University of Portsmouth journalism student Ivana Domozetska. ‘I will do everything and anything for my daughter to get the support she [… read more ]

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