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
almost 2 years ago
portsmouth.co.uk

Kings Theatre unveils Michelle Antrobus as Cinderella in this Christmas's Pompey panto

THE newly unveiled star of The Kings Theatre’s Pompey panto, Cinderella, is coming back to her roots.

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almost 2 years ago
portsmouth.co.uk

Climate change and refugee crisis examined in family-oriented show We Are Not Shellfish at Portsm...

What would you do if you found a message in a bottle, with the phone number of a child in the Calais Jungle?

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almost 2 years ago
portsmouth.co.uk

Mark Watson’s This Can’t Be It is coming to Hampshire | Interview

The events of the past couple of years have made us all think more regularly about the fragility of life than we prob...

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almost 2 years ago
portsmouth.co.uk

The Kings Theatre in Southsea is giving away free tickets to two summer spectaculars

THE KINGS Theatre is offering hundreds of free tickets to see performances of their youth theatre’s summer spectaculars.

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almost 2 years ago
portsmouth.co.uk

Groundlings Theatre to put on a free one-day summer family festival

GROUNDLINGS Theatre is holding its first ever summer family festival event.

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almost 2 years ago
portsmouth.co.uk

Pompey slang takes centre stage in Radio 4 show Tongue and Talk: The Dialect Poets

IF YOU know your ‘squinnies’ from your ‘dinlos’, there’s a show going out on national radio for you when it takes a l...

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almost 2 years ago
portsmouth.co.uk

Fire engine on blue lights collides with a Range Rover in Portsmouth while on 999 call

A FIRE engine responding to a 999 call collided with a car.

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almost 2 years ago
portsmouth.co.uk

New live music venue, The Box, to open inside Portsmouth Guildhall with first gigs from The Block...

A NEW 800 capacity venue – The Box – is being launched within Portsmouth Guildhall to replace the loss of The Pyramids.

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almost 2 years ago
portsmouth.co.uk

Bandstand on Tour: The People's Lounge take over Castle Field this weekend with Slick Minded Indi...

The People’s Lounge take over the Bandstand this Saturday and Sunday for a weekend of top quality local music.

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almost 2 years ago
portsmouth.co.uk

Royal Navy is developing uncrewed helicopters - codenamed Project Proteus - to hunt submarines

THE Royal Navy is developing unmanned drone helicopters to help free up crewed aircraft for vital tasks.

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almost 2 years ago
portsmouth.co.uk

Bob Dylan announces UK dates in London as part of Rough And Rowdy Ways Worldwide Tour

MUSIC legend Bob Dylan has today announced his first UK shows in more than five years.

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almost 2 years ago
portsmouth.co.uk

K-pop songwriter and author Becky Jerams launches new book and album at Lord John Russell pub in ...

Songwriter and author Becky Jerams has combined both sides of her work for the first time in a new book with its own ...

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