Community Reporter Helen Salsbury reports on ‘Streets for People’, a public meeting in October 2018 that explored ways of making Portsmouth’s streets vibrant, safe, and healthy places for local communities, businesses, residents and visitors to [… read more ]
Reclaim the News participant and part of our new Community Reporting team, Helen Salsbury, reports on the annual South Downs Green Fair and what Portsmouth can learn from it. Additional reporting by Sarah Cheverton. Portsmouth [… read more ]
Thursday 21st June 2018 was Clean Air Day and local activists for the #LetPompeyBreathe campaign handed in a petition calling on Portsmouth City Council to undertake a debate on air quality, and deliver the Air [… read more ]
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 ]
Green Party MEP for the South East, Keith Taylor visited Portsmouth in November to discuss concerns over poor air quality in the city. S&C regular contributor Andrew Larder reports. 5.4 million people in the UK [… read more ]
S&C regular Andrew Larder launches the first in a series of hidden histories exploring Portsmouth’s industrial estates, starting at Airport Industrial Estate, in the north east of the city. In 1979 punk band The Fall [… read more ]
With the General Election and more recently the offer of apprenticeships from a government minister, the Solent WASPI campaign against women’s state pension inequality has had a lot to deal with. Shelagh Simmons and Carolyne [… read more ]
In today’s article ‘Portsmouth After Brexit: What Do We Know?’, S&C Community Reporter Rosy Bremer looks at work undertaken to prepare the city for Brexit by the last and current council adminstrations. In this companion [… read more ]
In a new book, Union Jackboot, Portsmouth University visiting lecturer Matt Alford interviews the Plymouth Institute for Peace Research’s TJ Coles, an oppositional political commentator and author of Britain’s Secret Wars, a critique of modern [… read more ]
By Jon Crout Midnight. The chilling sea mist eased its way effortlessly over the gentle oil-black waves and wrapped itself purposefully around the castle. The time-worn fortification stood resolute in its coastal position. Defiantly planted [… read more ]
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