Southampton City Council (SCC) has confirmed the appointment of a community radio station to run the Cobbett Road library, and new ‘pilot’ opening hours will start from Wednesday (January 31).
People are finding it increasingly difficult to get an NHS dentist when they need one in Southampton, according to The Labour Party.
Get ready for a green awakening as community radio station Voice FM brings you 'Your Green Breakfast,' a new breakfast show focusing on local eco-updates and sustainable living.
A new Southampton fringe festival set to spotlight diverse talents in July has issued a call-out for local and national artists.
Emergency services, including a helicopter, searched the Saltmead area of the Itchen on Saturday evening (Jan 20) in response to distress calls, resulting in the safe rescue of a woman, reports the BBC. Image: Google
Residents, group reps and councillors were able to put concerns directly to Southern Water at a meeting at St Denys Church Centre.
The Hop Inn is open again, although apparently on reduced opening hours and not serving food.
A new community hub, offering a space for outreach, support, and simply ‘being’ launches on Saturday in the poorly resourced area of Townhill Park.
Airline KLM is to add a daily evening daily service between Southampton and Amsterdam Airport Schiphol beginning this summer
By bitternepark.info & Jamie Shapiro, Local Democracy Reporter
The council approved revised plans for the trial bus gate on a short stretch of Portswood Road during peak hours at a meeting on Tuesday (Jan 16).
Southampton City Council has given the green light to plans designed to see a single operator managing both rental e-scooters and cycles.
By Jamie Shapiro, Local Democracy Reporter
Cllr Dan Fitzhenry, the leader of the Conservative opposition on Southampton City Council, has announced that he will not be standing in May’s local elections.
For lovers of live music, the Thirteenth Big Bursfest Music Festival will be taking place in Bursledon Village Hall on Saturday, February 24. Co-founder and Bitterne Parker Rob Swallow tells us how it all started, and what to expect this year...
Portswood Shopping Centre, opposite Waitrose, has been sold for around £10 million, it’s been reported, while Iceland leaving the suburb has separately been in the news.
By Jamie Shapiro, Local Democracy Reporter
Electric scooters could be staying on the roads in Southampton for another two-and-a-half years, as Southampton City Council prepares to vote on an extension of the scheme.
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There are hopes that the Hop Inn on Woodmill Lane, which it’s understood closed at the weekend, will reopen “shortly”.
A protest for Saturday is being promoted in many Portswood shop windows, responding to what’s described as a plan for the “permanent closure of Portswood Broadway” to cars, although the proposed ‘closure’ is now for a shorter length of the street, and now during peak times only.
Caribbean food outlet Soca Shack is hoping to reopen at the Triangle on Thursday (Jan 11)after a series of mishaps, including a break-in, which have meant a rather longer Christmas close-down than expected.
As temperatures plummet, the city council is intensifying efforts to assist rough sleepers, activating its Severe Weather Emergency Protocol until Thursday (Jan 11), when measures will be reviewed.
Updated Jupider off licence and convenience store, on the corner of Bond and St Catherine’s roads, has suffered considerable damage after reportedly 'being rammed' by a van.
The enigma of the no-parking bollards that recently appeared on Bond Road is solved, as utility work starts and temporary lights are positioned — for motorists, and pedestrians crossing Manor Farm Road.
The Art House has revealed that after 15 years as a vital part of Southampton's cultural scene, they will bid farewell to their current venue at Above Bar Street by the end of March 2024.
A completely burned-out van, which had been abandoned in Riverside Park on November 9, was finally carted off from its resting place in Woodmill on New Year's Eve afternoon. It was widely regarded not only as an eyesore but also as very dangerous to the public. More pics on in original report and on Instagram.
A play by a Southampton writer recently broadcast on national radio tells tales of toll booth workers on the Itchen Bridge — and even references Bitterne Park secondary school disco.
By Jamie Shapiro, Local Democracy Reporter
Southampton City Council has today (January 3) sworn in its new leader, Cllr Lorna Fielker (Lab).
Three weeks of daytime and overnight work for “carriageway repairs” on Bullar Road are planned from Monday, January 8, with periods of one-way traffic and night closures.
Updated: Southampton City Council has offered a lease to community radio station Awaaz FM to take over the Cobbett Road library building and services, according to meeting documents.
Manor Farm Road is scheduled for carriageway repairs, with a daytime road closure in January.
While many council services will be operating as normal throughout the Christmas period, there are services that will be unavailable during this time. Here is a handy round up of information and those services affected from the council, in their own words.
The council has said it intends to install a pedestrian crossing across Mousehole Lane — a route used by many children walking to and from their schools.
