Good evening and welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast. I'm Ian Tiny Morris. And I'm Simon Sandsbury.

And welcome to our second to last episode before Christmas. I have battled my way back from,

it was either Ebola, man flu or a happy cold. So forgive me if the voice is sounding just a touch husky today. But before we

indulge ourselves next week with our own version of a Christmas carol, this week we've got our

latest Ward report, one which is very pertinent for myself and Simon as we are both residents of

Cossum so we are we are blessed and joined by no less than all three of our Cossium Ward councillors

welcome councillors hi hello good evening so I'll give a bit of introduction to to the ward and then to our councillors.

And then should we crack straight on with the questions, Ian?

Let's do it.

Okay. So Cossham is one of the three Portsmouth wards not on the island.

It's still part of Portsmouth, but you can fight in the comments about that if you want to. With Pawsgrove to the west and Drayton to the east, it stretches from

the top of the hill in the north and to Portsbridge Creek in the south. It's an area with thousands

of residential houses, mostly pre-World War II to the east of the High Street and post

the Second World War to the west with the Isla White and Wimmering Estates.

It's home to Highbury College, Cossham High Street, QA Hospital,

the council-owned lakeside office park and King George V playing fields,

and enjoys easy connections by car, train or bus into the city

and out to the neighbouring towns and beyond.

So there's our advert for Cautium.

We're joined today by all three of the Caution Ward councillors, so we're really

lucky and thank you all three for giving us your Sunday evening.

So we're joined by Councillor Matthew Atkins, Councillor Ashka-Sharr and Councillor Mary

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