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Cycle lane in 'dangerous' Portsmouth road set for safety improvements

A CYCLE lane along a 'dangerous' city road could be adapted to make it safer.

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Eduardo Goncalves in home in Gosport. Picture: Habibur Rahman

Queen's Speech delights Gosport campaigner as trophy hunting ban confirmed

ANIMAL skins, heads and more will not be allowed into the UK, Her Majesty The Queen has announced.

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Councillors will debate landlord licensing

Councillors to consider scheme to 'crackdown' on rogue landlords

A CONTROVERSIAL scheme to license all landlords in Portsmouth could be debated by councillors tomorrow after a previous attempt fell through.

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ortsmouth Kurdish community protesting against Turkey's invasion of Kurdistan, which happened after Donald Trump pulled US troops away from the border.

Kurdish community in Portsmouth protests Turkish invasion of northern Syria

A PROTEST against the Turkish invasion of Kurdish-held land gathered a 100 strong crowd at Portsmouth Guildhall on Saturday.

People

The ME zone for roads in Southsea will be considered at a traffic meeting next week.

New parking zone for Southsea to be considered to ease 'nightmare' car situation

MORE Portsmouth streets are set to become part of a new permit-restricted zone, in a bid to tackle the city's 'nightmare' parking situation.

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The Elms, Bedhampton, where the meeting will take place. Picture: Google Street View

Public meeting will scrutinise plans for 50 homes in Bedhampton

LATEST plans for a development of 50 new homes will be scrutinised at a public meeting later this month.

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Workers sorting a temporary fix fir the tarmac at the 9.2m Hard Interchange at Portsea Picture: Terry Pearson

'Portsmouth City Council has an awful lot of questions to answer over Hard Interchange'

After initially denying that legal processes were activated with the designer Roc Consulting and contractor Osborne over the sinking £9.2m hub at the Hard Interchange, Portsea, Portsmouth City Council has finally come clean and admitted that is actually the case.

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Leamington House and Horatia House (left), Councillor Cal Corkery (top) and former resident Peter Burton (bottom)

'Nowhere else is there a view like that' - looking back at Portsmouth's condemned tower blocks

'I THOUGHT the view was fantastic, it completely sold it for me' - a former resident of one of the city's condemned tower blocks said he had been 'sad' to leave his home but was hopeful for the future of the site.

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An impression of the new 3m crane alongside one currently in operation at Portico. Picture: Portsmouth International Port

New £3m crane set for Portsmouth port

A NEW £3m crane could secure the future of the city's shipping company.

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Tributes flooded in for eight-year-old Leo Burton

Parents of Gosport boy who died in bike accident campaign for law change

THE parents of an eight-year-old boy who tragically died after falling off his bike are campaigning to get his death properly recorded.

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Some of the latest designs for the Southsea sea defences

Portsmouth council vows to keep trying to get cash for sea defences after £10m bid rejected

THE city council will continue to press for cash from a local funding body in order to protect homes from rising sea levels, despite describing the most recent rejection as 'disappointing.'

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From left, Matt Warman, Cllr Suzy Horton and Cllr Gerald Vernon-Jackson sign the deal for a 3.9m investment into fibre broadband in the city, capable of 1GB download speeds. Picture: Portsmouth City Council

£3.8m ultra-fast broadband planned for Portsmouth schools

SCHOOLS, libraries and community centres in Portsmouth will benefit from ultra-fast fibre broadband, after receiving £3.8m of government funding.

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Householders dumping waste at the Paulsgrove Recycling Centre at Port Solent. Picture:Steve Reid

Portsmouth residents set for price increase at Port Solent tip

CITY residents will face a 50 pence price hike to dispose of bags of construction and demolition waste, as council officers warned the tip would be running at a loss otherwise.

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Portsmouth City Council leader, councillor Gerald Vernon-Jackson, with transport secretary Grant Shapps at the Portsmouth International Port. Picture: Habibur Rahman

Portsmouth council leader hands transport secretary £800K no-deal Brexit bill during visit

TRANSPORT secretary Grant Shapps has been handed an £844,000 bill by Portsmouth’s council leader in a bid to recoup money spent on preparations for a no-deal Brexit.

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The chief medical officer has called on government to ban food and drinks on public transport

Ban eating on public transport to cut childhood obesity, urges chief medical officer

The government should ban eating and drinking on public transport to help curb childhood obesity, the outgoing chief medical officer has said.

Health

The current parish centre opposite St Marys Church in Green Road, Alverstoke.

Gosport church submits plans to demolish parish centre - and build a brand new one

A PARISH centre in Gosport that is ‘unfit for purpose’ is set to be knocked down and replaced with a new community hub.

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New Domino's Pizza gets approval in Portsmouth

A NEW Domino's Pizza will open in the city, despite concerns about noise, traffic and health.

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Portsmouth South MP Stephen Morgan and shadow treasury minister Anneliese Dodds visited HMRC workers in September 2018, pictured outside Lynx House in Cosham Picture: Sarah Standing (180724-5641)

Council could fight to save Portsmouth's last tax office from closure

COUNCILLORS and workers could join forces in a bid to save Portsmouth’s last remaining tax office from closure.

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Portsmouth City Council leader, Councillor Gerald Vernon-Jackson, has written to Michael Gove expressing his concerns over the city's post-Brexit border control.'Picture: Ian Hargreaves

Portsmouth council leader warns no-deal Brexit could divert trading standards investigators away from dealing with criminals - and could cost authority £300,000 extra a year

PORTSMOUTH’S council leader has written to the government expressing his concerns over the pressure that Brexit could place on staffing at the city’s port – even increasing criminal activity.

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Is Portsmouth's pothole problem being ignored? Residents have their say

While the condition of Portsmouth’s roads has been called into question by the Department for Transport, the city’s residents claim that the council has ignored the issues away from the main roads for quite some time.

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Sex attacker grabbed and groped Portsmouth student in street after following her late at night

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