Southampton’s free Music in the City festival returns on Saturday (Sept 12), with 423 acts and 1,805 musicians performing across 59 venues.
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10th September 2026
Southampton’s free Music in the City festival returns on Saturday (Sept 12), with 423 acts and 1,805 musicians performing across 59 venues.
Bitterne Park School is now a mobile phone and smart watch-free campus, with students required to keep their devices in special pouches during the school day.
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By Jason Lewis, Local Democracy Reporter
Plans to restructure Hampshire’s councils, including merging Southampton with Eastleigh and parts of Test Valley and the New Forest, have been withdrawn.
By Jason Lewis, Local Democracy Reporter
A water leak under investigation for 10 months could lead to car crashes, a Southampton councillor has warned, as he claimed wards in the east of the city are not being prioritised.
Work on the railway bridge on Priory Road south in St Denys between September 11 and December 24 is expected to involve a road closure for drivers.
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A convenience store has been granted permission to sell alcohol despite residents raising concerns about crime, anti-social behaviour and noise.
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Library image of a previous duck race
This year's charity duck race from Mansbridge to Woodmill raised £5,000 for community causes - despite strong winds preventing the ducks from reaching the finish line.
A “Grand Relaunch Celebration” is being advertised for Cobbett Road Library for Monday (Sept 7).
A new café, appropriately named Nova, opened on Portswood Broadway on Saturday (Aug 22) in the former Poppins Restaurant premises.
Bitterne Park bar Comptons has announced that it is an official sponsor of Southampton Pride 2026, which takes place over the August bank holiday weekend.
A plan has been lodged for the development of the former driving test centre on Forest Hills Drive, which closed in April 2022.
The council is inviting residents, community groups and organisations to take part in one of the city’s oldest civic traditions, as plans are confirmed for this year’s Court Leet.
By Jason Lewis, Local Democracy Reporter
Plans have been tabled to build an extension at a Portswood mosque.
Updated: Police are appealing for witnesses or anyone with information as part of an investigation into a reported rape in Swaythling.
An extension to Bluestar’s 16 route will create a direct bus service to Southampton General Hospital from the east of the city from August 30.
By Jason Lewis, Local Democracy Reporter
New measures to allow councils to stop vape and betting shops opening have been welcomed by Southampton leaders.
Signs warn of a 24-hour road closure for “footway resurfacing” for up to eight weeks on a busy local road starting in September.
A series of drop-in sessions, including in Bitterne, Townhill Park and St Denys, has been arranged for young people who have received their Level 3 exam results and need help deciding what to do next.
Bitterne Library. Photo: Stephen Gray/FOBL
The maintenance of the Itchen Bridge is entering its “final phases”, although night-time working means night-time vehicle closures for now remain, according to the council.
By Jason Lewis, Local Democracy Reporter
Woodmill Coffee Kitchen's bid to sell alcohol has been given the green light despite concerns from residents.
The council has announced that the play area at Southampton Common has undergone “a major transformation” and is now open again.
By Jason Lewis, Local Democracy Reporter
Plans to bulldoze a pair of semi-detached houses and replace them with nine flats have been approved 19 months after councillors backed the scheme, but the developer must pay towards pedestrian and cycle improvements.
Priory Road will be subject to a series of daytime closures from August 17 while carriageway resurfacing work is carried out.
The council is asking Portswood businesses for their views on possible improvements to the area.
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An application has been lodged to turn a three-storey Bitterne Park property into a house in multiple occupation.
Updated: The annual charity duck race from Mansbridge to Woodmill is gearing up for its return, with tickets now on sale after an earlier appeal for sponsors helped secure the event's traditional £250 first prize.
Southampton City Council has apologised to residents who haven’t had their glass collected.
Southampton City Council's transport team believes the Woodmill Bridge traffic lights are operating correctly but cannot eliminate congestion altogether because the route is “an extremely constrained part of the road network”, reports a Bitterne Park councillor.