University of Portsmouth a £15,000 grant to work with elderly residents in the city. The university has four main media outlets. "The Galleon" the student newspaper, "Pugwash" the student magazine and is the oldest student media attached to the university, "Victory Studios" the student television station and Victory Radio the student radio station, which works alongside local radio stations including Express FM. Notable students of the University of Portsmouth and its predecessor institutions include University of Portsmouth The University of Portsmouth is a public university in the city of Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. The history of the university dates back to 1908, when the
Royal Commission on the Amalgamation of the City and County of London rest of London would be divided into a number of areas for local administration. New local authorities would replace the existing vestries and district boards. The functions the commission assigned to the local bodies included: The commission considered the optimum number of members of the new local authorities. The existing Common Council of the City had 232 members, the Commissioners of Sewers had 92, while the maximum number of members of a vestry or district board was 120. It was felt that in each case the membership was too large, and did not allow for effective administration. On reviewing England