Writer and planetary modeller David Angus’ toe refused to heal after he had a nail removed, so he had to re-bandage it through Christmas. But he had a good one, as he explains here. I [… read more ]
Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, Ian and Simon continue their review of what happened at the nine and a half hour full council meeting. Today [… read more ]
Today is the final day for people to object to an application by UK Oil and Gas Investments (UKOG) to drill an exploration borehole at Arreton, on the Isle of Wight. Local Green Party campaigner [… read more ]
Ahead of Clean Air Day 2019 on Thursday 20th June, Tim Sheerman-Chase from the Let Pompey Breathe Campaign looks at the benefits of traffic removal in reducing air pollution in Portsmouth. Portsmouth is a congested [… read more ]
Kimberly Barrett, founder of Keep Milton Green recently gave a deputation to Portsmouth City Council calling for greater local transparency on why property developers aren’t including affordable housing in their developments. Here she expands on [… 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 ]
Local residents have two days left to state their objections to a proposed lap-dancing club on Albert Road, following the Council’s Planning Committee’s decisions against the proposal. Sarah Cheverton reports. Portsmouth City Council initially refused [… read more ]
Photo of the speakers at the Industry Breakfast at Guildhall, from left to right: Prof Steffen Lehmann, Prof Graham Galbraith, Flick Drummond MP, Bev Lucas, Elad Eisenstein and Jason Syrett. The benefits of high-quality, people-oriented [… read more ]
Southsea resident, Tony Brown, joined his neighbours to protest the opening of a nightclub in a residential area. Together, this unlikely community group took on the nightclub industry to fight for their neighbourhood, and won. [… read more ]
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