Portsmouth City Council recently proposed a reduced Clean Air Zone to improve air quality in the city. Local air quality campaigner for Let Pompey Breathe, Tim Sheerman-Chase, explores the proposal and questions whether the plan [… read more ]
Last week, we received concerns on social media from the local community about the closure of Paulsgrove and Wymering Healthy Living Centre, so we set out to discover what was happening. Here’s what we found. [… read more ]
Portsmouth City Council passed a proposal this week responding to a government instruction to consider charging some vehicles in a clean air zone to improve air quality in the shortest time. Local air quality campaigner [… read more ]
Last Friday, from Portsmouth to Wakiso, Uganda, to Hobart, Tasmania to New York and Washington, DC, and in 159 other countries on all 7 continents, 4 million people protested against the catastrophe of climate change. [… read more ]
Writer and environmental activist Alan Burgess has made a modest proposal to Portsmouth City Council about how our city can help save our rapidly deteriorating environment. The global mean temperature today is 1.1 degrees centigrade higher than [… read more ]
Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns to discuss the theory behind councils borrowing money to invest – is it a good or bad idea? Hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury talk about how the [… read more ]
Continuing our new series of stories from our Young People’s Voices project – funded by Victorious Festival and supported by the University of Portsmouth – Zoe Beard, student at Havant and South Downs College, investigates [… read more ]
What do we really know about our elected representatives in Portsmouth? What are their interests, activities, attitudes and intentions? How are they accountable to voters? What connections do they have to external organisations? What connections [… read more ]
Continuing our new series of stories from our Young People’s Voices project – funded by Victorious Festival and supported by the University of Portsmouth – students at Havant and South Downs College, Frayja Roberts and [… read more ]
In the first of our new series of stories from our Young People’s Voice project – funded by Victorious Festival and supported by the University of Portsmouth – Suzie Peckett and Mya Matthews of Havant [… read more ]
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