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Outlander star Sam Heughan played hunky motorcycle cop Danny in the new Channel 4 drama The Couple Next Door (Picture courtesy Channel 4)

The Couple Next Door is an unappetising stew of mystery-thriller cliches

Paterson Joseph and Daisy Haggard star in the new BBC comedy-thriller Boat Story (Picture: BBC/Two Brothers/Matt Squire)

Boat Story review: A frenetic, violent coke-com

Asylum seekers in a dinghy as they cross the English Channel from France to Britain on 15 March, 2022. Credit: Sameer Al-DOUMY / AFP via Getty Images

"Stopping the boats is one part of stopping illegal immigration": Penny Mordaunt

Bill Bailey visited a whaling museum in Western Australia during his Australian Adventure, which started on Channel 4 this week (Picture: Perpetual Entertainment/Marmalade Sky/Channel 4)

Bill Bailey's Australian Adventure review: Weird, but not-so wonderful

Claire, husband Sean and 19-year-old daughter Joy-Anna featured in the new Channel 5 reality show Wife on Strike (Picture: Channel 5)

Wife on Strike review: Enough to turn anyone into a feminist

Shoplifting

Off The Fence: "Government must do more to tackle scourge of shoplifting"

Masterchef: The Professionals review: Voiceover makes you forget Gregg

Catherine Tyldesley plays Kate and Shayne Ward is Jack in Channel 5's new drama The Good Ship Murder (Picture: Channel 5)

The Good Ship Murder review: Shayne Ward and Catherine Tyldesley are all at sea

The cast of the hit BBC sitcom Ghosts, which returned for its fifth and final series this month (Picture: BBC/Monumental Pictures/Guido Mandozzi)

Ghosts review: Why this BBC sitcom is the home comfort we all need

The News Centre is set to become a new depot for First Bus's all-electric fleet

Penny Mordaunt MP: Let’s do something special with The News Centre building

Channel 4's Partygate told the story of the lockdown parties inside No.10 Downing Street during the Covid-19 pandemic. From left, Grace Greenwood (played by Georgie Henley), Alice Lyons (Alice Orr-Ewing), Rory Baskerville (Tom Durant-Pritchard), Annabel D'Acre (Ophelia Lovibond), Josh Fitzmaurice (Hugh Skinner) (Picture: Rob Parfitt/Channel 4)

Channel 4's Partygate should leave you raging

Here are 13 restaurants recommended by our readers.

Here are 13 of the best restaurants in Portsmouth - according to our readers

Stephen Morgan MP has launched his Big Conversation

Off The Fence with Stephen Morgan MP: Unlocking Portsmouth's potential

The new bakers in the Great British Bake-Off tent. From left, Josh, Nicky, Amos, Cristy, Dana, Rowan, Saku, Matty, Tasha, Abbi, Keith, Dan (Picture: Channel 4/Love Productions/Mark Bourdillon)

So nice to see the Bake-Off back

Chris Packham presented a new documentary this week, pondering whether the campaign influence governments on climate change needs to change (Picture: Rob Parfitt/Channel 4)

TV naturalist fights the law, and the law mainly wins

Clayton and Natalie enjoy a date on My Mum, Your Dad, the new ITV dating show hosted by Davina McCall (Picture: ITV)

My Mum, Your Dad review: The dating show to restore your faith in love
As a single dad, the idea of tipping a toe into the dating pool fills me with dread, as I’m sure I would drown in my own awkwardness.

Paul Whitehouse and Bob Mortimer returned in a new series of the brilliant Gone Fishing (Picture: BBC/Owl Power/Jonathan Jakob)

Gone FIshing review: I’d rather go fishing than anywhere with Gordon and Gino

Nina Sosanya stars as wing governor Leigh Henry in the Channel 4 comedy-drama Screw (Picture: Mark Mainz/STV/Channel 4)

Screw review: Channel 4 comedy-drama avoids 'difficult second album syndrome'

Penny Mordaunt MP's Off The Fence column: How can we achieve 'net zero'?

Kevin Costner as John Dutton in the Channel 5 drama Yellowstone (Picture courtesy Channel 5)

Yellowstone review: Kevin Costner's new western is swept off the stable floor

Andrew Cullen, Chief Executive of Portsmouth FC with Stephen Morgan MP on the pitch at Fratton Park

Off The Fence column with Stephen Morgan MP: We need a new footbridge at Fratton

Here is how you would improve the city.

12 reader suggestions for a better Portsmouth

Studies have shown that more trees and greenery can have a positive impact on mental health - and more trees would, of course, help with Portsmouth's carbon footprint.

8 things that we think Portsmouth should have to make it a better city

Juliet Stevenson stars as Matilda Anchor-Ferrers in the new BBC drama Wolf. Picture: BBC/Hartswood Films Ltd/Simon Ridgway

Wolf review: This cop drama-horror-comedy is an interesting mess

A terrified Ann Moore Martin (Anne Reid) in the new BBC drama The Sixth Commandment. Picture by BBC/Wild Mercury/Amanda Searle

The Sixth Commandment review: Careful, and full of care

Victorious Festival prides itself on being accessible. Picture by James White

Victorious in the community: Accessibility is central to what we do

Paul Connolly (right) finds his half-brother Frankie (left) after appearing on ITV's Long Lost Family (Photo by ITV/Wall To Wall Productions)

Review: ITV’s family search docs show Larkin was right about your mum and dad
Your parents mess you up, to genteelly paraphrase Philip Larkin, they may not mean to, but they do.

Going Green: Warmer waters aren’t healthy for our wildlife

Decathlon’s green ‘No tent left behind’ campaign

Electric vehicles are here to stay

Going Green: Driving home case for more electric vehicles

Enjoy the seaside

Going Green: Make little changes before visiting the seaside

Cherie Lunghi. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images for Disney)

Going Green : Make your barbecue environment friendly

Get out into the great outdoors this Father's Day

Going Green: Go back to nature with your dad on Father’s Day

Deborah Meaden (Photo by Jeff Spicer/Getty Images)

Going Green: How awful is climate change for gardeners?

Welcome to Eastney beach

What would aliens visiting Eastney in 3023 make of it - a reader writes

An artist's impression of how Tipner East will look

Penny Mordaunt: City's regeneration projects need to be kept on track

Crystal Tides on stage at Victorious Festival 2022. Picture by Tony Palmer/Shot by Tony

Victorious in The Community | Support for local acts is key to what we do

Unknown gentleman sitting for the portrait.

Woman is on a hunt to reunite a family with painting

The Victorious organisation sponsors Pickwick Youth. Picture by Joe Watson

Victorious in The Community | Supporting grassroots sports in Portsmouth

Gary’s victory - now licence payers must have the same BBC freedom

Pat Phoenix with Tony Booth whom she married in a dramatic hospital wedding after diagnosis with cancer (photo: Getty Images)

Ruling soap queens who reigned Supreme and lit up our television screens

The gallows were once a typical sight (photo: Adobe)

The gruesome business of public execution put under the microscope

(left to right) Francesca Gonshaw, Gordon Kaye and Vicki Michelle of British sitcom 'Allo 'Allo! (photo: Getty Images)

Why, after four decades, UK remains occupied by risqué sitcom ’Allo ’Allo!

New Year tradition of the chimes of Big Ben at midnight (photo: Adobe)

New Year’s customs and traditions are brought to mind as 2023 welcomed

King George VI who made a speech to the nation each Christmas from 1939 exxcept for one year following an operation (photo: Getty Images)

Monarch’s Christmas day speech carried on by our new King Charles III

A nativity scene
Picture: Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP via Getty Images

Steve Canavan on that mix of pride and dread at seeing the school nativity

Kebab shops from accross the UK compete annually at the British Kebab Awards

City takeaways reach British Kebab Awards final

Try a cheese advent calendar

Slices of great advice to make most of classically Christmas cheese boards

Dave Kelly's father showing his son his old stomping ground

The importance of oral history and family

Winston Churchill carrying out some brick work at his home in Chartwell, Kent, in 1928 (photo: Getty Images)

Chartwell: Where you get to know the man who is behind the myth

In celebration of the black cat - National Black Cat Day (photo: Adobe)

Stating the case for dark felines as treasured pets – National Black Cat Day

Queen Elizabeth II visits Gunwharf Quays in June 2002 as part of her Golden Jubilee tour of the country.

Picture: Paul Jacobs

'The Queen will forever be remembered in Portsmouth'

The proclamation of King Charles III in Guildhall Square in Portsmouth on September 11, 2022

Picture: Peter Langdown

Portsmouth smartly dressed for rare moment of quiet during proclamation

Editor of The News Mark Waldron joins mourners at a vigil to mark the passing of Queen Elizabeth II in Guildhall Square on Friday, September 9.
Picture: Sarah Standing (090922-333)

Memories of our Queen bring sunshine on a rainy day in Portsmouth

Queen Elizabeth II, the Prince of Wales and Prince George, on the balcony of Buckingham Palace at the end of the Platinum Jubilee Pageant on the last day of the four-day celebrations. Credit: Frank Augustein/PA Wire

Warm, gracious and down-to-earth - my memories of meeting HM The Queen