Emily Priest reviews Portsmouth Pride – her first Pride ever – after a new committee takes the reins and finds love, community and a little bit of bad singing. Portsmouth Pride returned to the city [… read more ]
S&C regular Andrew Larder launches the first in a series of hidden histories exploring Portsmouth’s industrial estates, starting at Airport Industrial Estate, in the north east of the city. In 1979 punk band The Fall [… read more ]
S&C critic and community correspondent, Emily Priest visits the new butterfly exhibit in Portsmouth’s Natural History Museum and finds a new asset for seafront tourism. On 19th August, Cumberland House unveiled the result of a [… read more ]
S&C’s critic and reporter Emily Priest visits a new addition to Portsmouth’s café scene, as it works to overcome the controversy and politics that saw its previous operators infamously evicted. Back in February this year, Portsmouth [… read more ]
A recent study from Love My Vouchers compares data on noise complaints from local authorities across the UK, and despite our reputation, Portsmouth may not be as loud as you think. Emily Priest reports. The [… read more ]
Liberal Democrat Councillor Steve Pitt attended a briefing for city councillors on Tuesday 25th July to outline the plans for the next stage of upgrading the city’s sea defences. Here, he outlines for residents the [… read more ]
Emily Priest reports on newly released research from MoneySuperMarket exploring the increasing difficulty of saving enough money to buy a house in Portsmouth. Additional reporting by Sarah Cheverton. New research from MoneySuperMarket this week revealed that it would [… read more ]
Rob Dellow of the Hampshire Fire Brigade Union (FBU) speaks about the impact of austerity on public sector workers and services at Saturday’s rally and march in Portsmouth calling for the removal of the public [… read more ]
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 ]
Portsmouth resident and community activist, Alan Burgess, responds to UKIP’s Cllr Galloway and his motion for ‘the local police force to be more vigilant and to help the Council to remove the ever increasing beggars [… read more ]
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