Hollywood has come calling in Portsmouth to find hundreds of men to appear as extras in the blockbuster film Les Miserables.

Filming begins in March. The film is released in December.

You can read the story HERE.

As a Scuba Center that cares Triton have organised a beach clean up day at our local seafront. The day will start off with a safety briefing and an introduction to why we need to make days like this regular and all do our bit to keep the beach clean.

Marine animals can mistake rubbish for food and many have died from consuming plastic bags, fireworks debris, and cigarette butts. Your friends, family, children could hurt themselves on broken glass, cans and other objects that have been disposed of.

Help us to keep the ocean clean and safe and come down to join us. Please see the following website for up to date information on current related issues and to find out other ways that you can help.” www.plasticoceans.net and www.tritonscuba.co.uk. Lets make Southsea pretty and safe for summer! For all the info and to keep up to date please head over to www.facebook.com

Photo: Quiet Corners

“In 2008 I started a project writing on pebbles on Southsea beach. I photographed the stones and left them there for people to find and enjoy. The first book, “Stone Dead Forever”, came out in 2010 and featured over 60 photos of inscribed stones.

In 2009, photos of the stones were featured on the GPS website by the South Bank Centre, London. There is a group on Flickr, at http://www.flickr.com/groups/stone_dead_forever/ where you can see the full set and upload pictures of your own poetical pebbles.

Three and a half years later the project is still going and I have scribbled and drawn on over 450 stones. Text comes from experiences, ideas, song lyrics, poetry and conversations. A few have been written by request, but I would rather encourage you to grab a permanent marker and go out and scribble, write or draw on your own pebble. This new book, “Geologic Shift” collects together 40 or so of the most recent photographs for you to enjoy.”

Preview the book on Blurb at www.blurb.com/bookstore

If you are interested please email Gambol Parker at gambol@yellowkite.org.uk with images of your work and prices with the following details – Name, Organisation/Company, Contact Details, Do you require a trestle table and chairs? Rates are £12 a day for a pitch or £20 for the two days. They are open to the public at 10am each day and will close around 4.30pm. You are welcome to come and set up your stands on the afternoon of Friday 18th November. Alternatively, Southsea Castle will be open for set-up from 8.30am on Saturday 19th November.

They also have a Facebook page.

In December 2010 the UK Government announced modernisation consultation proposals for HM Coastguard. At that time the intention was to reduce the UK’s eighteen Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centres to just two centres which would operate 24hrs per day. These centres (MOC’s) would be supported by only five sub centres that would only be operational throughout “daylight hours only”.

UK Coastguard HQ Centres are responsible for the co-ordination of Search and Rescue along the UK coastline, as well as providing shipping information and a number of other essential services along the UK coastline.

Announcing the cuts, Shipping Minister Mike Penning said “Our seas are becoming busier, with larger ships and increasing numbers of offshore renewable energy platforms making key areas of our seas more congested. There are also increasing numbers of people using our beaches, coastlines and seas for leisure activities.”

The proposals were overwhelmingly rejected by EVERY Coastguard station, campaigners and by the Transport Select Committee who conducted a full investigation and concluded that the modernisation proposals were “seriously flawed”.

If you care to sign this petition in favour of keeping our coastline safe then please visit www.petitiononline.com/SHMCGS

Deer Park Alpha have been been busy designing the website with bit of help from myself in supplying the photographs. We now need your help in getting more. So if you feel you have images that best sum up your view of the city please visit the links below.

The website is under development but can currently be viewed at: Beautiful Portsmouth – http://www.beautiful-portsmouth.co.uk/

To add your image to the website you will need to join one of twelve Flickr groups that have been set up. Images need to be landscape, as high a resolution as possible and also have a title that reflects the image. Please do not post images with watermarks on them or credits.

Flickr Groups – Portsmouth – Made in Portsmouth | Portsmouth – Best of | Portsmouth – Sport |  Portsmouth – People | Portsmouth – Wildlife | Portsmouth – Culture | Portsmouth – Retail | Portsmouth – Creative | Portsmouth – Business | Portsmouth – City Views | Portsmouth – Heritage | Portsmouth – Seafront |

We are also on the look out for products made and designed in Portsmouth- please email Carl Leroy-Smith at – carl@dpamail.org

So far, over 150 photographs have been contributed to the project, and nearly 100 species are now represented. There are literally 1000’s of species of animal and plant to be found around the harbour however, so there are plenty of gaps in the project left to fill!

Autumn is a great time of year to see wildlife around Langstone Harbour, with thousands of migratory birds beginning to arrive and beautiful fungi springing up on many of the wildlife reserves dotted around the shoreline.

For more information about the project visit the Langstone Harbour Board’s brand new website at www.langstoneharbour.org.uk and send photographic contributions to ark@langstoneharbour.org.uk

Below are just a few of the contributors photographs so far, and you can see all of them over at the gallery HERE.

Kestrel by B.D. McGregor

Little Tern by Mark Milum

Grey Seal by Nick Lyon

Thanks to Emily Tudor for the shout.