We continue our Portsmouth Writers’ Season showcasing the best contemporary Portsmouth authors. Set in 1973, Christine Lawrence’s novel Caught in the Web tells the story of Karen, a mental hospital orderly whose obsession with an elderly patient draws her into [… read more ]
In the second part of her Beginners’ Guide to Portsmouth – originally published on her blog – Nica Tomasiello introduces newcomers to Portsmouth’s unique climate and cultural scene. #5: How do you find the general [… read more ]
With due caution – and a small amount of terror – Star & Crescent presents a new regular column by Sir Eugene Nicks QC, KBE, Policy Advisor to the All-Portsea Conservative, Regressive and Imperial Association (established [… read more ]
Sindy Prankard tells a moving and very personal story of illness, motherhood and manipulation. We are on our way to see Disney on Ice because my son’s girlfriend, for whom he bought the tickets, brutally dumped him just [… read more ]
Shelagh Simmons reflects on the Tory smear plan revelations and concludes that the public deserves a lot more than the feeble excuses and hypocritical counter-arguments offered so far. Everyone knows that politics can be a nasty business and we have seen over [… read more ]
We continue our series showcasing Portsmouth writers with the following excerpts from David E Gates’ Access Denied, winner of third prize in the AuthorsDB 2015 Cover Contest. When his girlfriend Meg gives birth, David is ecstatic about becoming [… read more ]
Members of the public are invited to join junior doctors in Portsmouth as they go out on strike on Wednesday 10th February, following failed talks between doctors’ trade union, the BMA, and the Department of [… read more ]
Responding to one of the local residents named in the recent Tory smear plan, City Solicitor and Deputy Chief Executive of Portsmouth City Council, Michael Lawther, says councillors were “acting in a private capacity and not as a councillor.” [… read more ]
Following yesterday’s breaking news on S&C of a Tory plan to ‘smear’ opponents to council cuts, local charity Aurora New Dawn and campaign group Sisters Uncut respond. Hampshire charity Aurora New Dawn revealed today that [… read more ]
By Shelagh Simmons So that’s it. The twisted, burnt effigy to so much destruction in our lives – itself meeting a violent, blazing end – is finally sold. The property developer will raze what is [… read more ]
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