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Hidden Places Around Portsmouth: Fade to Grey

24th August 2020

Local resident and photographer John Callaway gives us a glimpse into Portsmouth’s hidden places with his stunning photography. This week, John takes a trip to Fareham Quays to tell the history of this once important south coast port. [… read more ]

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Lockdown Novelist: How I Finished My Book in a Pandemic

1st July 2020

Christine Lawrence describes finishing her novel, which had not been touched for a year, while in lockdown, and how she managed to write over 87,000 words during the pandemic. I sit and stare into the [… read more ]

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A Letter to My Dead Parents About COVID-19

23rd June 2020

Gosport-based writer, adventurer and planetary modeller, David Angus, has found some therapeutic benefits to writing about the current crisis and imagining it as a letter to his late parents. Dear Mum and Dad, Well, things [… read more ]

Memoir

Lockdown With My Family in Southsea: Day 18, Enough Already

3rd April 2020

Local parent, researcher and writer, Maddie Wallace, continues her daily diary describing the experience first, self-isolating, and now being in lockdown with her children in Southsea. It’s Day 18 and Maddie continues to struggle with an [… read more ]

Culture

Could You Fill the Boarhunt 4th Plinth?

1st November 2017

An outdoor artist space in Fareham is running an open call for artists to submit proposals for a new public art space, the Boarhunt 4th Plinth. Sarah Cheverton talks to co-organiser and Portsmouth-based artist Adrian [… read more ]

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Local Charity Wants Old PCs to Help Disadvantaged Young People

4th October 2017

Your old or broken computers can help local children and young people with autism or learning difficulties into employment, says Steve Bond of PALS Society as the Fareham-based charity launches an appeal for donations this [… read more ]

Culture

Think You Know Gosport? This Summer, Think Again

1st August 2017

Portsmouth University student Eleanor O’Donnell believes Gosport gets a rough deal from locals and visitors alike. Here, she makes a passionate argument for giving our sister town across the water a second look. Now that [… read more ]

Social Issues

What Kind of a City Are We? How Portsmouth Treats Refugees

19th July 2017

Many international problems have a local dimension, and the refugee crisis is no exception. Andrew Larder asks whether our city, which has a long and proud tradition of welcoming desperate people from all over the [… read more ]

Culture

The Case of the Naval Expert and the Missing MP

17th November 2016

A number of authors, such as Rudyard Kipling and HG Wells, have connections with Southsea, although they wrote little, or nothing while they lived there. Frederick Thomas Jane (1865-1916), the eponymous founder of Jane’s Fighting [… read more ]

Memoir

A Journey Home: From Krakow to Portsmouth and Back

15th June 2016

Portsmouth-based novelist Christine Lawrence tells a poignant tale of family, immigration and reconnection with the past. The plane banked, ready to descend from the sky. The bright sunlight beaming through the tiny cabin windows dimmed as [… read more ]

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Welfare not Warfare: Protest Against Benefits Cuts in Portsmouth

27th June 2025

Portsmouth and District Unite Community is calling a protest against the savage cuts to Personal Independence (PIP) Universal Credit and Employment Support Allowance (ESA), reports trades unionist and activist Alan Burgess. The protest will take [… read more ]

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What’s Missing from Local News in Portsmouth? And How do we Fix it?

11th June 2025

S&C Editor Dr Sarah Cheverton shares insights from her PhD research on the local news crisis in her second article for Indie News Week (9th-16th June 2025). Building on her first article about the local [… read more ]

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What’s Happened to Local News in the UK and What Does it Mean for Portsmouth?

8th June 2025

This week, to mark Indie News Week 2025, S&C Editor Dr Sarah Cheverton is drawing from her recent PhD research on the local news crisis to talk about the dramatic changes to local news over [… read more ]

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Local News Crisis, Portsmouth: Sign the Petition to Help Regenerate Independent News

8th June 2025

This week – 9th-16th June – is Indie News Week, showcasing the importance of funding community-based journalism across the UK. The campaign’s organisers, the Public Interest News Foundation, has launched a petition calling on the government to support independent local news publishers and even up the playing field between independent local publishers and the large news corporations that own most of the UK’s local news titles.  [… read more ]

News

Record Breaking £11 Billion is Still Not Enough to End the Special Educational Needs Crisis

17th May 2025

Parents and teachers left ‘overwhelmed’ by the failing SEN system in England’s schools, reports University of Portsmouth journalism student Ivana Domozetska. ‘I will do everything and anything for my daughter to get the support she [… read more ]

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