Dinosaurs are set to roam in Southampton this summer – and we have a chance for one family to encounter them for free. Royal Victoria Country Park in Southampton will see T-rex, Velociraptors, Stegosaurus and Pterodactyls roaming through its parkland, when Jurassic Encounters comes to town next month. Stomping...
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Preview: School of Rock at Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s smash hit, award-winning West End show, School of Rock – The Musical, comes to Mayflower Theatre from Monday 18 to Saturday 23 July. Featuring 14 new songs from Andrew Lloyd Webber, and all the original songs from the movie, this high-octane smash delivers face-melting guitar riffs...
Satvir Kaur, leader of Southampton council, is new Labour candidate to be city MP
Words: Sally Churchward. Picture: Chris Moorhouse. The leader of Southampton City Council, Satvir Kaur, was elected this morning to become the new Labour Party parliamentary candidate for Southampton Test. A new candidate was selected following the announcement by current MP for Southampton Test, Dr Alan Whitehead, that he would...
July events at Southampton’s October Books
As well as offering a huge range of books and other goods, Southampton’s independent radical bookshop, October Books in Portswood always has a packed schedule of talks and other events, both in the shop and online and July is no different. The next date for your diary is the...
Positive Money film festival coming to Southampton this summer
A Positive Money Film Festival comes to Southampton at the end of this month. Positive Money exists to encourage education and discussion about banks and the financial system in Britain. The Solent Branch is presenting this festival so that people in the Solent area have an opportunity to see...
Southampton community bakery to hold ‘bake-off’ competition to raise funds
A community bakery in Southampton is hosting a bake-off style competition for amateur bakers this month (July 2022) to help raise funds for new baking equipment. CommuniBakes, which is the commercial arm of the charity Communicare, is hosting the competition on Saturday, July 30 and the winning bake will...
Celebrating our NHS: Southampton Stories on Film at God’s House Tower
Since 2013 Southampton Keep Our NHS Public (SKONP) has been campaigning on streets, lobbying MPs and raising public awareness about the threats posed to the NHS through privatisation. As a local branch of Keep Our NHS Public, SKONP works to advocate the values of the NHS: publicly owned, accountable,...
Preview: Jersey Boys at Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
Go behind the music and inside the story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons in the Olivier Award-winning, original Broadway sensation, Jersey Boys, which is playing at the Mayflower Theatre from Tuesday 5 to Saturday 16 July 2022. They were just four guys from Jersey who had a...
Preview: Let’s Rock Southampton: The Retro Festival at Southampton Common, Southampton
by Catherine Collins. Top Gun is showing in the cinemas, Kate Bush is number one in the music charts with Running Up That Hill and Southampton is set return to the ‘80s when Let’s Rock: The Retro Festival comes to Southampton Common on Saturday 9th July. Thousands of revellers...
Preview: Bat Out of Hell at Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
The award-winning Bat Out of Hell – The Musical, featuring Jim Steinman and Meat Loaf’s greatest hits, will burst onto the stage of the Mayflower Theatre from Tuesday 28 June to Saturday 2 July 2022. Bat Out of Hell became one of the best-selling albums in history, selling over...