Ann-Marie Powell at RHS Chelsea Flower Show
Today, the penultimate day of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, The Octavia Hill Garden by Blue Diamond with the National Trust by award winning designer Ann-Marie Powell received this year’s RHS/BBC People’s Choice Award, an award voted for by the public. The Show Garden was also voted the favourite of the junior judges who presented […]
The RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024
Watch the Red Arrows soar as part of the huge, free Portsmouth Armed Forces Day event taking place on Southsea Common on Saturday 8 June. This year’s Armed Forces Day is being held at the end of a week of D-Day commemorations which starts in Portsmouth on Wednesday 5 June, to give everyone the opportunity […]
Basingstoke Comic Con 2024, The Hampshire Court Hotel – Saturday. Actors from Stargate, Harry Potter, Our Flag Means Death and Supernatural were at the event with headline appearances from Jason Momoa, Richard Armitage, Richard Dean Anderson and Rhys Darby.
Basingstoke’s second Comic Con, taking place at Hampshire Court Hotel on 10 to 12 May is set to welcome Jason Momoa as its headline guest alongside the likes of Richard Armitage and Richard Dean Anderson. The full list of guests can be seen on the event website including a host of Stargate, Supernatural, Harry Potter […]
BBC Gardener’s World Spring Fair 2024 at Beaulieu. Best Showcase Garden and a Platinum award were presented to award-winning landscape designer Matt Le Gassick, founder of Inbud, for The Inner Dancer. The garden was designed in partnership with Great Oaks School, a specialist secondary school in Southampton for young people with complex learning difficulties. The […]
The names of 56 veterans of D-Day and the Normandy campaign have been added to the Normandy Memorial Wall in Portsmouth. On Monday 29 April, the new bricks carrying the name and the unit they served in were carefully added, taking the number of World War II veterans honoured on the wall to over 600. […]
Marwell Wildlife has today launched an appeal to raise £20,000 to help save one of the UK’s most endangered native species, the white-clawed crayfish by opening a breeding centre at the zoo. The Hampshire based conservation charity is taking part in the Big Give’s Green Match Fund and for one week only all donations will […]
A tree survey will take place this summer to help identify the diversity of trees in Portsmouth. Surveyors and volunteers will be given the task of counting and labelling the types of trees within 250 sample plots throughout the city. Forest Research, which is part of the Forestry Commission, will undertake the survey on behalf […]
Acclaimed photographer Steve Poole has created a study of the New Forest unlike any other: a series of environmental portraits that shed light on the vibrant, idiosyncratic human ecosystem at the heart of one of the UK’s most beloved National Parks. From extraordinary, intimate pictures of New Forest commoners engaged in ancient agricultural practices to […]
