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Portsmouth Author on Libraries, the Environment and Seaside Towns

21st December 2024

Local writer Tom Sykes presented his new book about our deteriorating seaside communities at Southsea Library. Peter Gruner reports. Coast of Teeth: Travels to English Seaside Towns in an Age of Anxiety, with drawings by [… read more ]

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Southern Water Stinks: March Against Sewage, Greed and Privatisation

19th October 2024

Due to lack of accountability and regulation, Southern Water has been getting away with sewage dumping, overcharging and underinvestment in its infrastructure. We don’t have to accept this, writes local activist Alan Burgess. It is [… read more ]

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Plastic Pollution in Portsmouth: What You Can Do to Save Your City

26th July 2021

Plastic waste is a major threat to the world. It poisons our bodies, pollutes our land, air and water, and kills animals of all shapes and sizes down to the tiniest plankton. Every year, our [… read more ]

Politics

Pompey Politics Podcast: Nine and a Half Hours, Pt II

24th November 2020

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 ]

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Pompey Politics Podcast: Power to the People?

27th October 2020

Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, Viola Langley & Paula Savage from Let’s Stop Aquind talk about the struggle to fight against the imposition of an electricity interconnector [… read more ]

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Pompey Politics Podcast: Want a Slice of the Pie?

6th October 2020

Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, Ian and Simon are joined by David Simpson to talk about the concept of participatory budgets, how do they work? [… read more ]

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Pompey Politics Podcast: All Roads Lead to Moans

21st July 2020

Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, Ian & Simon tackle two vital subjects: The government imposed Clean Air Zone (CAZ) in Portsmouth, and the Prime Minister’s ‘Out of [… read more ]

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Pompey Politics Podcast: Time for Some Greens

19th May 2020

Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, Ian and Simon speak to local Green Party member Tim Sheerman-Chase about environmental politics during the lockdown and what it [… read more ]

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The Climate Emergency: What Could Be Done If We All Worked Together?

11th December 2019

Zoë Ingram, student at Havant and South Downs College, asks why young people seem more concerned with the climate emergency. Climate change can be a widely overshadowed issue when it comes to election coverage, but [… read more ]

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Soap From Straw: Portsmouth University Project Replaces Chemicals in Household Products

6th November 2019

A University of Portsmouth scientist has discovered a way of using one of the world’s most abundant natural resources as a replacement for man-made chemicals in soaps and thousands of other household products. Sarah Cheverton [… read more ]

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Portsmouth-based Palestinian Student and Family in Need of Financial Help

2nd February 2026

Abedelraheem Hamad is a talented Chevening scholar who was evacuated from Gaza by the British government to study for a Masters in Crisis and Disaster Management at the University of Portsmouth in September 2025. Over [… read more ]

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‘We Were Having None of It!’ Activists Voice Concerns at Southern Water Meeting

2nd February 2026

David Langley was one of a quintet activists who attended a meeting with Southern Water in Waterlooville on 30th January. Here he tells us what happened. I am pleased to report that we were well [… read more ]

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Together is Stronger: Portsmouth Climate Choir at the Green Forum

2nd February 2026

Portsmouth Climate Choir is part of a national movement called the Climate Choir Movement, which was founded with the intention of using the power of music to draw attention to critical environmental issues and mobilise [… read more ]

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Man Arrested At Protest Outside Stephen Morgan’s Office and Released Without Charge

2nd January 2026

A Portsmouth man was arrested yesterday outside the office of local MP and Labour Friends of Israel member, Stephen Morgan, under the Terrorism Act 2000. The man was holding a sign reading ‘Palestine Action are [… read more ]

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Portsmouth Palestine Hunger Strike Protestors Step Up Pressure on Local MP

30th December 2025

For the second day this week, Portsmouth South constituents have demonstrated outside their MP Stephen Morgan’s office. George Hibberd reports. The protestors are demanding that Morgan, a member of Labour Friends of Israel and a recipient [… read more ]

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