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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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Planetbuilding Blues: Space and Time Projects

9th April 2026

  Writer and planetary modeller David Angus details his latest projects, including Time Travel (and Dinosaurs) in Gosport. I’ve worked a lot on Jupiter’s moons, as you do. Callisto has already been mentioned in earlier [… read more ]

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Pompey Climate Choir Protests Outside Barclays Bank

27th March 2026

Portsmouth Climate Choir performed their song ‘We’re Gonna Switch Our Bank’ outside Barclays in Portsmouth in collaboration with PSC and Trans Pride Portsmouth. Viola Langley reports. Members of Portsmouth Climate Choir sang a rousing rendition [… read more ]

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Portsmouth Event Unites Community on the Climate Emergency

27th March 2026

Inflation. High food and energy bills. Food banks. War. Genocide. We live in dark times, but a glimmer of hope can be found through spirit and community. On a chilly but sublime Thursday evening in [… read more ]

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‘The DWP Saved £180 Billion and They Can’t Pay Us £10 Billion’: Portsmouth WASPI Women Protest Pension Injustice

17th March 2026

The Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) is a campaign group advocating for compensation from the Department for Work and Pensions for its failure to properly inform women of increases to their state pension age. [… read more ]

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Portsmouth-based Palestinian Student and Family in Need of Financial Help

2nd February 2026

Abedelraheem Hamad is a talented Chevening scholar who was evacuated from Gaza by the British government to study for a Masters in Crisis and Disaster Management at the University of Portsmouth in September 2025. Over [… read more ]

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