This Saturday, 25th November is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (IDEVAW), which marks the start of 16 Days of activism to end violence against women and girls. CEO of Hampshire [… read more ]
Shonagh Dillon, CEO of Hampshire charity Aurora New Dawn, speaks out about the devastating impact of coercive control – now a criminal offence – and urges local victims to seek support. I have worked in [… read more ]
Lauren Sherry shares a poignant family story of abuse, addiction and violence, and argues that such suffering needn’t necessarily lead to the misery of victimhood. From an early age I knew my dad was an [… read more ]
I was born here, under Maggie’s rule. Living beneath her Spitting Image character hanging from a telecom wire overhead. The youth here knew hate before they knew love and everybody hated the Iron Lady. Everything [… read more ]
Editor in Chief, Sarah Cheverton, is speaking to Swedish journalists today about our ‘virtual newsroom’ at an event organised by Digital Identities and supported by Google Newslabs. This is the first time Star & Crescent [… read more ]
The Siege of Somerstown: Being a Portion of the Records of a General of the Fifth Hants Involuntary Air Rifles Concerning an Infantry Sortie on Behalf of the Crown and Portsmouth City Council’s Department of [… read more ]
Following news that the number of homeless people in Portsmouth has trebled, Holly Wells finds out why – and who is out there to help. A homeless man is sat in a doorway in Southsea. [… read more ]
In the second of a series of posts that appeared on their website for National Stalking Awareness Week, local charity Aurora New Dawn’s Independent Stalking Advocate takes us through what stalking is and how to [… read more ]
Our Editor in Chief, Sarah Cheverton is the Writer in Residence for local charity Aurora New Dawn, which runs Hampshire’s Stalking Advocacy Service. In the first of a series of posts – originally featured on [… 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 ]
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