Last night saw the Portsmouth screening of The Firefighters’ Story: 100 years of the Fire Brigades Union commemorating 21 firefighters who lost their lives in the line of duty during WW2 and honouring another Hampshire firefighter, [… read more ]
The Good Things Foundation and Google have teamed up to bring Portsmouth residents the Google Digital Garage which will provide free training courses for the people of Portsmouth, contributing editor Paris Ali-Pilling reports. The Good [… read more ]
S&C recently appeared at the Byline Festival – described as ‘the only festival trying to change the world’ – organised by independent news platform and newspaper, Byline, in partnership with the Frontline Club for journalists. [… read more ]
Writer and music blogger Doug Hamilton was born and raised in America, moved to Canada in the early 2000s, and recently relocated again with his British-born spouse to Portsmouth. This is part seven of his ongoing series exploring [… read more ]
‘The Firefighters’ Story’ documentary comes to Portsmouth Historic Dockyard’s Auditorium on Friday the 27th of September 2019, marking the first centenary of the Fire Brigade’s Union. S&C Contributing Editor, Paris Ali-Pilling, reports. It has been [… read more ]
Writer and S&C social media manager for Instagram, Beth Lewingdon, revisits Besieged, a historical play by local writer, actor and PhD researcher Vin Adams, based on contemporary accounts of a surprising moment in Portsmouth’s history. [… read more ]
The Byline Festival describes itself as ‘the only festival trying to change the world’ and is organised by independent news website and newspaper, Byline, in partnership with the Frontline Club for journalists. Now in its [… read more ]
Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns to discuss the issue of private rental housing provision in the city. Hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury are joined by Cllr Cal Corkery who talks about his attempt to bring [… read more ]
A University of Portsmouth project aiming to improve skills and employment opportunities for local women will be running a series of 12 workshops for 18-35 year old women in the city. S&C Community Reporter Andrew [… read more ]
On 9 July, Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam declared that a widely unpopular extradition bill, which had already been suspended by the Hong Kong government, was ‘dead’ – albeit not formally withdrawn, as most [… read more ]
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