A local group aiming to reduce social isolation and bring people together has created a welcoming community for people from all backgrounds. Chat over Chai volunteer and committee member, Lynne, reports. The Thursday Chat over [… read more ]
Zoë Ingram, student at Havant and South Downs College, asks why young people seem more concerned with the climate emergency. Climate change can be a widely overshadowed issue when it comes to election coverage, but [… read more ]
Maggie Sawkins writes about her experience of using poetry to work with a local group open to anyone battling with substance misuse, mental ill health and/or homelessness, which runs on Saturdays at Central Library. Biblio-Poetry [… read more ]
Paris Ali-Pilling reports on his experience of narrowly avoiding a scam HMRC call demanding the immediate payment of £1000. It was an average Saturday morning. I’d run a bath and was putting on some music [… read more ]
At the Pens of the Earth launch night, Nicholas Sebley from Extinction Rebellion talked about the possibilities and challenges of transforming Portsmouth into a new city by 2030. The way I see it, there are [… read more ]
Our society faces some profound challenges, argues Megan Howson of Portsmouth Friends of the Earth. Climate breakdown is the major issue now but there are also other pressing issues such as poor air quality, obesity, [… read more ]
At Pens of the Earth’s launch night Helen Salsbury talked about rethinking the way our streets are used, and not just assuming they should exist for motorised traffic. Reclaiming streets for people can have an [… read more ]
Film actor Denise Black, who grew up in Portsmouth, will talk about how music can help relieve depression at a screening event on Thursday November 7. Peter Gruner reports. She’ll speak on behalf of the [… read more ]
November sees the start of tree planting season, and the culmination of the Woodland Trust’s ‘Big Climate Fightback’ campaign which encourages everyone to pledge to plant a tree. But what might this mean in Portsmouth? [… read more ]
by Eileen Phyall ‘Plastic free,’ he said scornfully. ‘Don’t be ridiculous. You’d put us back to the 1940s.’ ‘When there were no cars parked on this road and you played in the streets,’ Moira said. [… read more ]
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