by Joy Richardson. Every year The Vegan Society promotes January as a time to try being vegan and many people enjoy the challenge of taking part. However whether you want to try joining in with Veganuary, or would just like to incorporate more meat free meals into your diet,...
Childbirth can result in post traumatic stress disorder – but a Southampton therapist is offering help
Advertising feature by Sally Churchward. Birth trauma and Bodywork therapist, Kirsteen Anderssen, uses a range of techniques to work with clients suffering PTSD following childbirth trauma, anxiety, depression or people who just want to better understand their own nervous system and triggers. She explains her approach and how transformative...
SOS NHS march and rally being held in Southampton this weekend.
AN SOS NHS march and rally is being held in Southampton city centre on Saturday, January 28. A spokesperson said: “The NHS crisis is a crisis of government. The Tory government are quick to blame everyone and everything but themselves for the current crisis they have created in our...
DMA’S come to Bournemouth’s O2 Academy on tour ahead of album How Many Dreams?
DMA’S are on the road this spring, and coming to Bournemouth’s O2 Academy on April 7. They recently released new single Fading Like a Picture from their forthcoming album How Many Dreams?, due out on March 31. Previous releases from the album, Olympia and Everybody’s Saying Thursday’s the Weekend...
Reader’s letter: NHS patients and staff are suffering – and the government are to blame
“The NHS is safe in our hands.” Remember that quote from David Cameron? Twelve years on and the current crisis in Emergency care is anything but safe. Seeing long lines of ambulances unable to deliver their patients to hospital is shocking. Harm is undoubtedly being caused to patients and...
Opinion: How I learnt to stop worrying about The X Factor
by Lewis MacLean. Recent English Eurovision contender and runner up Sam Ryder needs no introduction. He will go down in history as the closest we got (since Bucks Fizz) to winning what England generally condisers the most biased and contentious global competition of all. However, enthusiastic Sotonites who turned...
Southampton charity combating loneliness with intergenerational event
In an effort to combat loneliness and bring generations together, a Southampton charity is hosting intergenerational events, allowing people to expand their social contact and make new friends. Communicare is trialling an intergenerational event at St Mary’s Primary School on Ascupart Street from Monday, January 30 from 10am-12 noon,...
Industrial-metal act Combichrist comes to Bristol and Southampton for two intimate electronic shows
Norwegian industrial-metal act Combichrist is heading to Bristol and Southampton for two electronic shows this spring. Landing at Thekla in Bristol on 27 April and The Loft in Southampton on 28 April, Combichrist founder and core member Andy LaPlegua will be appearing with DJ accompaniment and promising an “Old...
Short story: Automatic Zen Garden
by Damian Bemben. “One can accomplish something only so long as one cannot accomplish everything” – Stanislaw Lem, The Cyberiad swish swosh swash it felt at peace. the motor slowly turned. Methodically. Within the large garden next to the perfectly uniform bonsai trees, cut by the artificial gardener and...
Reader’s Letter: Levelling up – how about providing free school meals?
by Charlotte Ndupuechi. “Levelling up? What better way than to provide free school meals. With this week‘s big PR push from the government about the so-called levelling up agenda, this got me thinking. Child poverty continues to rise with 4.3 million children now living in poverty in the U.K....