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S&C Appears at Byline Festival: ‘A Riot of Independent Journalism’

16th August 2019

The Byline Festival describes itself as ‘the only festival trying to change the world’ and is organised by independent news website and newspaper, Byline, in partnership with the Frontline Club for journalists.  Now in its [… read more ]

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‘Humanity Needs a Lot of Work’: An Interview with Dr Ahmad Terkawi

5th June 2019

Community reporter Andrew Larder interviews Dr Ahmad Terkawi, whose family was almost killed as they fled from Syria to Greece. Dr Terkawi is also the co-founder of the Organisation for Migrant Safety (previously the Maritime [… read more ]

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‘Excluded from the Welfare State’: An Interview with Friends Without Borders, Pt II

20th March 2019

In the second of a two-part interview, Helen Salsbury talks with Michael Woolley, the Chair of Friends Without Borders (FWB), a Portsmouth-based charity providing support and advice to asylum seekers. I wanted to know more about [… read more ]

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Stronger Together: An Interview with Friends Without Borders

12th March 2019

In the first of a two-part interview, Helen Salsbury talks with Michael Woolley, the Chair of Friends Without Borders (FWB), a Portsmouth-based charity providing support and advice to asylum seekers. How did you first get [… read more ]

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Portsmouth After Brexit: What Do We Know?

3rd December 2018

The subject of Brexit comes up in the media every day, but there’s very little information on how it will affect the city. Community reporter Rosy Bremer decided to find out. Additional reporting by Sarah [… read more ]

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Portsmouth and the Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival 2018

15th October 2018

S&C Community Reporter Andrew Hurdle revisits the 2018 Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival in this exclusive photo essay. It’s Sunday 22nd July 2018 and I’m in the small village of Tolpuddle, Dorset. The main road is closed, [… read more ]

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Patient Activation: Personalising Portsmouth’s Healthcare or Speeding Up Privatisation?

23rd July 2018

Portsmouth City Council (PCC) recently ran a survey formulated by American private health firm, Insignia Health, on ‘patient activation’. A member of S&C’s Reclaim The News team (who wishes to remain anonymous) has investigated what [… read more ]

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A Passion for Classic Cars: Midweek Minis

4th July 2018

One of our #ReclaimTheNews team, Andrew Hurdle, showcases the Midweek Minis meetup at Port Solent in this exclusive piece of photo journalism for S&C. In 2014, Ashley Abraham and James Calder set up Midweek Minis, [… read more ]

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What Does Portsmouth Really Think About the NHS?

23rd June 2018

Our National Health Service turns 70 on 5th July and we want Portsmouth to tell us how you feel about the NHS. Answer these three questions and your answer might be featured in an article [… read more ]

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‘A Sense of Collective’: The Reclaim The News Course So Far

5th June 2018

Earlier this year, we joined up with the Centre for Investigative Journalism to train a group of local residents in some of the basic skills of investigative journalism so they could report on the local [… read more ]

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Welfare not Warfare: Protest Against Benefits Cuts in Portsmouth

27th June 2025

Portsmouth and District Unite Community is calling a protest against the savage cuts to Personal Independence (PIP) Universal Credit and Employment Support Allowance (ESA), reports trades unionist and activist Alan Burgess. The protest will take [… 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 ]

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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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