Good evening and welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast.

I'm Ian Tiny Morris.

And I'm Simon Sandsbury.

You join us today at the end of what's been quite a horrendous week actually,

obviously with the horrific news of the

killing of Sir David Amos MP. So it's a week, I guess, for pause and reflection. But when we're

not having a partisan show tonight, what we actually changed our schedule to be this evening anyway was a show

talking about basically a stink that's being raised locally. So we've got three esteemed guests

that have joined us this evening and those being Sarah Shreve from Stop the, Stop the Sewage South Sea.

Alex Ford, a professor of biology at Portsmouth University,

Mike Owens, who's from Hailing Sewage Watch.

So good evening.

We'll get you to do a bit more of an introduction of yourselves in a minute.

Don't worry.

It's not that frightening, honest.

Indeed. So it's, yeah. So I think it was all kind of started just over a week ago where there was the notice put out that there were abnormal conditions and then there's been lots of towing and fraying since. So this evening we look to explore what has actually gone.

So let's invite our guests to introduce themselves, starting with Sarah.

Hi, everybody.

Least qualified first.

I think that's a good plan of attack.

So yeah, I'm Sarah. I'm from the group Stock for Syridge, South Sea. By trade, I'm a teacher educator on the head of early years and

primary for a big teacher training organisation. And I am the newest to this of any one on the

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