Chris Broom Reporter
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Chris Broom is The News's entertainments editor, who oversees our weekly what's on supplement, The Guide. He covers music, comedy, musicals, plays - if it's on a stage (and even if it's not) he'll write about it. And that includes everything from major touring acts and festival headliners, through to grassroots acts and the am-dram scene.

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846 Articles
6 months ago
portsmouth.co.uk

Hayling Island artist St Lundi releases festive single, Alone Over Christmas, to support Trussell...

An up-and-coming singer-songwriter from Hayling Island with more than 100m streams to his name is releasing a Christm...

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6 months ago
portsmouth.co.uk

Proud to be PHU Awards 2023 celebrate the best in Portsmouth's NHS staff: The winners in full

Caring, compassionate and supportive were just some of the words used to describe staff, teams and volunteers from Po...

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6 months ago
portsmouth.co.uk

Charles Dickens' classic A Christmas Carol get the jukebox musical treatment from ​​Fareham Music...

​​As Christmas has started to arrive in the shops and in our minds Fareham Musical Society are presenting a new music...

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6 months ago
portsmouth.co.uk

How a new job doing kitchen makeovers has helped Lucy Goffin get a grip on her ADHD

​By her own admission Lucy Goffin found it difficult to find a job she could stick to.

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6 months ago
portsmouth.co.uk

Shaun Williamson looks back on being Barry in EastEnders, Barrioke and working in Pontins on the ...

​Shaun Williamson is about to be tearing up The Kings Theatre’s stage in the title role of Hook – this year’s Pompey ...

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6 months ago
portsmouth.co.uk

Review | Stereo MC's at The Wedgewood Rooms, Southsea: "A formidable live act"

When Stereo MC’s were at their commercial peak in the early ’90s, I’ll admit I wasn’t really paying attention.

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6 months ago
portsmouth.co.uk

Folk pioneers Steeleye Span link Status Quo, Elvis Costello and a 'lost' song on new album The Gr...

​Since their beginnings in the late 1960s, Steeleye Span have become folk-rock pioneers, always shifting and evolving...

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6 months ago
portsmouth.co.uk

Hampshire magician who taught Tom Cruise for Mission Impossible brings his new show Jadoo to Port...

​When Tom Cruise’s character Ethan Hunt needed to pull off what is effectively a magic trick in the latest Mission Im...

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6 months ago
portsmouth.co.uk

Portsmouth Guildhall Trust moves forward with The Base and Harbour programmes, supporting new and...

As it moves forward with its plans to create a vibrant, exciting space for young people to be creative, Portsmouth Gu...

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6 months ago
portsmouth.co.uk

Portsmouth man who ‘hates running’ to do half-marathon for family friend with cerebral palsy

A man who ‘hates running’ and suffered a punctured lung earlier this year is to take on a half-marathon to help fundr...

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6 months ago
portsmouth.co.uk

Portsmouth veteran tells how Royal British Legion helped him after life-changing injuries ahead o...

With Remembrance Day taking place this weekend, the work of The Royal British and how it helps our veterans is at the...

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6 months ago
portsmouth.co.uk

Food bank parcels issued in Portsmouth by The Trussell Trust rise by nearly 70 per cent in a year

New figures released by the Trussell Trust reveal that the number of emergency food parcels provided to people in Por...

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