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Something for the Weekend: Where Did 2020 Go?

18th December 2020

Ian Morris bids farewell to 2020 in his last column of the year. What does he remember most about this year, for good and bad? It’s the last column of 2020, a  year that began [… read more ]

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Pompey Politics Podcast: Sowing the Seeds of Love and Tiers for Fears

4th December 2020

Hosts Ian Morris and Simon Sansbury return this week after a technical glitch at the weekend. This week Revd Amy Webb talks about a new community food initiative for Cosham, Wymering and Paulsgrove and 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 ]

Politics

Pompey Politics Podcast: Nine and a Half Hours

17th 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 review what happened at the nine and a half hour full council meeting. One of the things discussed [… read more ]

Politics

Pompey Politics Podcast: Stop the Count!

10th November 2020

Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, they look at methods of voting this side of the Atlantic and ask if we really need to vote in [… read more ]

Politics

Pompey Politics Podcast: Don’t Panic!

3rd November 2020

Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, they discuss the upcoming US election, the European Court of Human Rights investigation into Labour and if the Government have [… read more ]

Politics

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 ]

Politics

Pompey Politics Podcast: Empty VESLs Make the Most Noise

20th October 2020

Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, after fighting technical issues and human error, Ian and Simon review the goals from last week’s Full Council Meeting. Should [… read more ]

Politics

Pompey Politics Podcast: Our House in the Middle of Our Podcast

13th 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 Cllr Darren Sanders – Cabinet Member for Housing and Preventing Homelessness for Portsmouth City [… read more ]

Politics

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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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 ]

Indie News Week 9th-16th June 2025. No news is bad news.
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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 ]

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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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Portsmouth City Council Plans £7.5 Million Boost in SEND for New Special School

17th May 2025

Portsmouth City Council (PCC) is planning to invest £7.5 million in the Omega Arts Centre in Southsea to convert it into a special needs school. University of Portsmouth journalism student Ivana Domozetska reports. This will cover [… read more ]

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