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Pompey Politics Podcast: Lockdown, Day Seven

31st March 2020

Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, the guys work their way through most of this week’s events. These include the government using mobile data to fight [… read more ]

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Pompey Politics Podcast: School Days, Just Not in School

24th March 2020

Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, our intrepid hosts – working from their respective homes, in the interests of self-isolation and social distancing – invite Cllr [… read more ]

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Pompey Politics Podcast: Independents Day

10th March 2020

Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, the guys welcome Portsmouth political stalwart Cllr John Ferrett onto the show to discuss life as an independent councillor in [… read more ]

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Pompey Politics Podcast: Fake News Special

2nd March 2020

Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, Ian and Simon are joined by local activist Ivy Burrows, video search engine CTO & programmer for PeteyVid, Craig Stadler, [… read more ]

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Pompey Politics Podcast: Time For Some Truth Down Under

28th February 2020

Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, Ian and Simon discuss the value of listening to whistleblowers and the value of truth when everyone is calling everyone [… read more ]

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Pompey Politics Podcast: Dennis didn’t Menace

19th February 2020

Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. Cabinet Member for Health, Wellbeing & Social Care Matthew Winnington joins them by telephone to talk about the issue of retaining GP provision in [… read more ]

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Pompey Politics Podcast: Live! means Live!

4th February 2020

Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. With the minor operator error of Simon forgetting to hit ‘record’ at the start, Portsmouth’s very own political podcast completed its first live show [… read more ]

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Pompey Politics Podcast: Rumours of the end of the world have been greatly exaggerated

20th January 2020

Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury discussing (without authority) President Trump’s latest attempt to throw the world away in nuclear war before moving on to discuss the first casualty of Labour’s [… read more ]

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Pompey Politics Podcast: Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc

18th December 2019

In what may be their last episode before Christmas, our intrepid hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury discuss how things went locally and nationally in Thursday’s General Election, with Stephen Morgan bucking the disastrous [… read more ]

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GE2019: Pompey Politics Podcast Election Special – The Final Episode

12th December 2019

Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury for the fifth of what they hoped would be six General Election 2019 special episodes. However, with the two incumbents – Stephen Morgan and [… read more ]

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Guide Dogs Charity Needs Portsmouth Volunteers: Could it be You?

8th April 2022

The local branch of charity Guide Dogs is urgently appealing for new volunteers to sign up as Fundraisers and My Sighted Guides. Volunteering Coordinator Pat Janecka reached out to S&C Editor Sarah Cheverton to tell [… read more ]

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Portsmouth Remembers: Remembrance Day Events 2021

7th November 2021

As Remembrance Day approaches, Paris Ali-Pilling collates all the events (both free and ticketed) happening locally to honour armed forces members who have died in the line of duty.  National Museum of the Royal Navy [… read more ]

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Portsmouth Campaigns: Monthly Round-up (6th Oct – 6th Nov 2021)

8th October 2021

We’re launching a new, monthly roundup of local events and protests for Pompey campaigners and activists. If you have an event, protest or campaign meeting you want to share, let us know on Facebook or [… read more ]

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Portsmouth College Basketball Academy in the Community

28th September 2021

While Portsmouth is well-known for its football club, the city also has a basketball academy that does a lot for the community. Community Reporter Paris Ali-Pilling interviewed Rob Milner, chairman of the club, about challenges [… read more ]

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From Essex to Emsworth: A Bike Ride for Domestic Violence Victims

3rd August 2021

Local resident Tom Shaw reports on he and his friends’ 140-mile charity bike ride to raise money for Women’s Aid. On Tuesday 3rd August 2021, a four-man cycling group comprised of myself, Josh Sturt, Joe [… read more ]

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