The very first Bitcoin ATM in Hampshire launched last Friday 13th November at Computer Junction in Elm Grove, Southsea. Cambridge-based Heliopay LTD – working in conjunction with Portsmouth Crypto and Computer Junction in Elm Grove, [… read more ]
Writer and photographer Alexander Sebley is shocked by the depths some advertisers are prepared to sink to. Advertising agencies house some of the most debased people on the planet: deceptive, cynical and toxic. This advert [… read more ]
Aidan Williams explores the views of local politicians on drugs and prohibition, using GovFaces – a new social media platform for political discussion. Portsmouth City Council pledged this year to ban all legal highs from the city [… read more ]
Sam Ward takes a satirical swipe at new proposals to sponsor our defining landmark. The news broke the way it does these days. Cut-up and quoted, trickling out from the source, repurposed and ridiculed, a [… read more ]
International emergency response team, Serve On, are starting a Community Resilience Team for Portsmouth to train local residents to support local emergency services in crisis and emergency situations. Serve On – which also provides international [… read more ]
The newly formed Portsmouth Green Party presents Journeys for peace, an evening with author and journalist Rory O’Keefe and peace activist and author Angie Zelter, at Friendship House on 26th October at 7pm. In the aftermath of [… read more ]
Promoter and activist Steve Pitt thinks we all should be concerned about the Council’s decision to give refugees the cold shoulder. Yesterday evening Portsmouth City Councillors, led by the Tory group, voted to ask the government to remove [… read more ]
Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘new politics’ is dividing Portsmouth Labour Party – many welcome the return to socialism, others are resigning in disgust. Taking a more nuanced view, Portsmouth University lecturer Stephen Harper wonders whether one man – however progressive [… read more ]
Portsmouth has been ranked 9th in a list of English cities rated on their heritage and cultural assets and activities reports Sarah Cheverton. The Heritage Index was compiled by the Royal Society for the encouragement of [… read more ]
Star & Crescent has been awarded Nesta funding and a place on a new action research project for hyperlocal news sites in the UK. ‘Hyperlocals’ are defined as news media (online or in print) that [… read more ]
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