Every October the nation marks Black History Month, highlighting the richness of black arts, culture and history. Here’s a look at some events in Southampton.

The death of musician and artist Greg Gilbert, singer of Delays, who studied at Bitterne Park School and was a regular at Triangle cafe Il Picchio, has “led to an outpouring of grief from the city’s music scene and the wider music world”. You can read tributes in this detailed BBC piece.
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Delays in Mexico City in 2006. Photo: Eduardo Arcos, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

By Maria Zaccaro, Local Democracy Reporter

Plans for a new takeaway in Portswood were submitted to the city council last month.

National homelessness charity Crisis has revealed that in England over 100,000 low-income renters on Universal Credit will be at risk of eviction because of the planned £20 cut next week.

Southampton residents who act as unpaid carers are being asked to give their views on new plans to help support them, either online on October 21, or at a series of events.

A new hourly bus service linking Harefield and Bitterne with the city centre on Sundays and public holidays launches on October 3.

By Maria Zaccaro, Local Democracy Reporter

Plans to amend the opening hours of a waterside pathway in St Denys have been refused.

The ever popular Thorold Road Haunted House will be back again for this year’s Halloween, as usual raising cash for charity Abby’s Heroes.

Southampton City Council is consulting on plans to introduce ten-minute free parking in some places to help “get Southampton moving”, but some say it will encourage driving and “add to the congestion in our city”.

A petition has called for Southampton City Council to put in a “safe crossing” in front of Moorlands Primary School in Townhill Park because children are “forced to run the gauntlet every day” due to traffic.

There were over 40 jumble stalls around the area, including at Bitterne Station – all part of a Bitterne Park ‘Jumble Trail’ on Sunday (Sept 12). 'Read more' for pics of just a few in our picture gallery, and listen to organiser Sharon Nineham explain how the idea came about.

Police have arrested a man on suspicion of theft from motor vehicle following a report on Wednesday (Sept 8) that a man had been trying car door handles in the Mead Crescent area, near Woodmill Lane.

Southampton City Council (SCC) would like your views and feedback on its draft Cultural Strategy.

'Rallying call to private landlords'

Southampton City Council (SCC) is looking for homes in which families evacuated from Afghanistan can be housed and start to build a new life. 

A new video demonstrating how to rent electric scooters, and ride them safely, has been released.

If you or someone you know has unpaid caring responsibilities, then the latest newsletter from Carers in Southampton, which encourages carers to take care of their own health, may well prove useful.

Repair to a gas mains leak has caused the closure of Forest Hills Drive at its Woodmill Lane junction.

Feed the Community Project, which distributes free food from St Denys Church, held a summer party for local youngsters on Friday (Aug 20) in the church grounds.

Plans have been submitted to use a converted shipping container for a pizza kitchen and takeaway service in the garden at the Bitterne Park Hotel, with access from Whitworth Crescent.

A two-day trial is taking place at Chessel Bay in Bitterne Manor to clean up tiny plastic pellets, called ‘nurdles’, using a specially designed machine.