On Thursday each of the city’s 14 wards have one seat up for election, so there’s something for everyone to play for, more or less. Sarah Cheverton looked at last year’s election results to find [… read more ]
Ahead of Thursday’s election, Sarah Cheverton talks exclusively to Simon Hayes about his three and a half years in the new role of Police & Crime Commissioner for Hampshire & Isle of Wight, and why [… read more ]
Round 2 of our caption competition comes from local resident Peter McIver, who provided us with captions for 3 of our favourite images here on S&C. “Does my bum look big in this? Let me [… read more ]
I am writing to seek your advice about the upcoming council elections. I am a proud socialist and one of the 251,417 people who voted you in as leader of the Labour Party last August. [… read more ]
The Siege of Somerstown: Being a Portion of the Records of a General of the Fifth Hants Involuntary Air Rifles Concerning an Infantry Sortie on Behalf of the Crown and Portsmouth City Council’s Department of [… read more ]
By Andrew. “Welcome to your council” reads the dubious sign, And I had not a clue that the thing was all mine! Last time that I checked I had three mobile phones, But surely the [… read more ]
Shelagh Simmons reflects on the Tory smear plan revelations and concludes that the public deserves a lot more than the feeble excuses and hypocritical counter-arguments offered so far. Everyone knows that politics can be a nasty business and we have seen over [… read more ]
Responding to one of the local residents named in the recent Tory smear plan, City Solicitor and Deputy Chief Executive of Portsmouth City Council, Michael Lawther, says councillors were “acting in a private capacity and not as a councillor.” [… read more ]
Shonagh Dillon, CEO of Aurora New Dawn, responds to allegations from Council Leader Donna Jones that the charity is implicated in an alleged ‘hate campaign’ against her. In a recent News article, the Leader of [… read more ]
Shonagh Dillon, Chief Executive of Hampshire-based charity Aurora New Dawn, responds to personal criticism of her by local councillors in a recent article in The News about proposed cuts to domestic violence services in Portsmouth. I [… read more ]
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