Eileen Robertson (1941-2018) We’re sorry to have to report that one of our friends and member of the Portsmouth writing community, Eileen Robertson, died on Tuesday 20th November. Eileen was proud of being a Yorkshire [… read more ]
Local resident Tamara Groen went along to Portsmouth’s first Repair Café in the hope of fixing her favourite fairy lights, and found an inspiring project focusing on sustainability and community. Now she’s a regular volunteer. [… read more ]
Local resident Ian Morris enjoyed the cut and thrust of the recent council elections, and watched with interest his birthplace of Gosport as it underwent a trial in which voters were required to produce forms of [… read more ]
Rosy Bremer – part of our #ReclaimTheNews local journalism training team – takes a satirical look at the piloting of voter ID in Gosport last week, one of only five places in the country to [… read more ]
To celebrate the recent release of Portsmouth writer William Sutton’s third Victorian mystery with Titan Books, Lawless & the House of Electricity, today we’re proud to present a short story featuring Victorian detective, Sergeant Campbell Lawless [… read more ]
Creative writing student, Kaitlin McKenzie, visits a surprising food venue in Gosport that puts wasted food to good use. When I first heard the words ‘The Real Junk Food Project’ my brain was filled with [… read more ]
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 ]
Writer, adventurer and planetary modeller David Angus feels under siege. He lives in a part of Gosport that was vulnerable to the propaganda of the Leave campaign during the EU referendum. So how will the General [… read more ]
S&C Contributing Editor John Oke Bartlett never really knew his father, who served in the Royal Navy in World War II. Now, some years after her death, he’s compelled to record as much as he [… read more ]
The Gosport to Portsmouth ferry is a busy, popular and long-standing service. Let Lewis Baglow help you to look at it in brand new ways. As a child, in the seventies, I would have nightmares about going [… read more ]
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