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‘We Are A Lot More Isolated’: Covid and Portsmouth’s Bangladeshi Community

27th November 2020

Covid-19 Community Reporter, Dianna Djokey, interviews father and local restaurant business owner, Mohammad Miah, on how Covid has affected the Bangladeshi community and local businesses, alongside the impact of isolation and home-schooling.  Dianna Djokey: How [… read more ]

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When Covid Hit My Business, I Got a Supermarket Job to Look After My Family

10th November 2020

Community Reporter for Covid 19, Dianna Djokey, interviews Roni Edwards, the creative director of Pamodzi Creatives, mother, and person of colour, about her work in the arts sector and how she navigated the pandemic when [… read more ]

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Changing Careers and Delivering a Business Online During Covid-19

14th October 2020

Becky Lodge Founder of Little Kanga Ltd and StartUp Disruptors (a business club and community for start-ups and small business owners) interviews Claire Odd, the business owner of ‘Restoring Balance’ a wellness and rehabilitation specialist, [… read more ]

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‘Trying to do Everything’: A Female Entrepreneur and Covid-19

8th October 2020

Becky Lodge Founder of Little Kanga Ltd and StartUp Disruptors (a business club and community for start-ups and small business owners) interviews Ali Schillemore, owner of Ali Schillemore Graphic Design. This is the fifth article [… read more ]

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Pompey Politics Podcast: Disruptive Starts

22nd September 2020

Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, Ian & Simon welcome entrepreneur Becky Lodge – founder of Startup Disruptors and Little Kanga to talk about starting your own business [… read more ]

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How I Used Lockdown to Expand My Doggy Daycare Business

16th September 2020

Becky Lodge Founder of Little Kanga Ltd and StartUp Disruptors (a business club and community for start-ups and small business owners) interviews Jarvis Clothier owner of local startup Jarvis Dog Boarding and Training providing luxury [… read more ]

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Portsmouth Start-Ups: ‘For Women Funding is Still a Barrier’

10th September 2020

Becky Lodge Founder of Little Kanga Ltd and StartUp Disruptors (a business club and community for start-ups and small business owners) interviews Sarah Jane Black, a business to business management consultant who owns and runs [… read more ]

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Before Covid-19, My Employer Said Home-Working ‘Wasn’t Possible’

2nd September 2020

How has the pandemic affected working, social and political life for people with increased vulnerability to Covid-19 because of disabilities or long term health conditions? Our Covid-19 Community Reporter, Rosy Bremer talks to local resident ‘J’, [… read more ]

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Being Online Has Helped My Business Grow During the Pandemic

1st September 2020

Becky Lodge Founder of Little Kanga Ltd and StartUp Disruptors (a business club and community for start-ups and small business owners) interviews Rachel Okiy, start-up business owner of Bright Bookkeeping Services in Portsmouth. This is [… 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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