Portsmouth City Council recently proposed a reduced Clean Air Zone to improve air quality in the city. Local air quality campaigner for Let Pompey Breathe, Tim Sheerman-Chase, explores the proposal and questions whether the plan [… read more ]
Local poet, actor and spoken word performer Vin Adams will be appearing at A Word In Your Ear, a Labour Party fundraising event at 7.15pm on Thursday 27th September at the Hunter Gatherer café, Albert [… read more ]
Writer and actor John Bartlett remembers an iconic Portsmouth pub and some shambolic yet hilarious musical goings-on within. The Sir Robert Peel was built in 1967 and demolished some forty years later. It had little [… read more ]
Portsmouth Liberal Democrat councillor Suzy Horton never expected to spend several years owning a folder with ‘lap-dancing club’ written on it. Nor could she have predicted the twists and turns of the planning application process for [… read more ]
S&C’s food critic Emily Priest finds her new favourite restaurant amid the colour and chaos of Albert Road. Sakura, situated on Albert Road, was established in 2009 as the first Japanese restaurant in Portsmouth. Now, in [… read more ]
Continuing his trip down the memory lane of Portsmouth pubs, John Oke Bartlett reminisces over his time at the Fifth Hants on Albert Road, and the local characters he met there. Read Part I here. [… read more ]
Continuing his trip down the memory lane of Portsmouth pubs, John Oke Bartlett, reminisces over his time at the Fifth Hants on Albert Road, and the local characters he met there. The Fifth, as it is [… read more ]
Continuing her Southsea Food Tour, Emily Priest finds another great cafe that is a prime example of quality over quantity. A while ago someone sent me a message recommending Casa de Castro. I replied, ‘I’ve been [… read more ]
University of Portsmouth student Paul Beresford imagines a grim future for Portsmouth’s music venues, as he shows how the city’s independent and smaller venues are struggling to survive in an increasingly competitive commercial landscape. The year [… read more ]
University of Portsmouth student Maria Sewell asks whether the growing population of students is having a positive or negative effect on the city’s image. The Royal Navy has long been at the heart of Portsmouth’s growth and [… read more ]
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