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Portsmouth
Portsmouth is in Virginia, within the United States of America.
Portsmouth is a mainly white city in terms of ethnicity with 94.7%. Portsmouth long association with the Royal Navy has means it represents one of the most diverse cities in terms of the peoples of the British Isles, with many Demobed sailors staying in the city, in particularly, Scots and English from the Industrial north east and Northern Ireland, Former Prime Minister James Callaghan's father was a Protestant from Northern Ireland. Similarly the some of the largest and most established non white communities have there roots with the Royal Navy most notably the large community from Hong Kong. Portsmouth long industrial history in support of the Royal Navy has seen many people from across th British Isles move to portsmouth to work in the factories and docks, largest of these being the Irish Catholics, (Portsmouth is one of a handful of cities with a catholic cathedral} names like Doyle and Murphy are extremely common in Portsmouth. ,
Culture
The city has three established music venues: The Wedgewood Rooms, The Pyramids and The Guildhall. The most successful bands to have emerged from Portsmouth in the past quarter of a century are The Cranes and Ricky, both of whom enjoyed critical acclaim and minor chart success. However there remains a very limited number of venues for less experienced bands to play at.
The city is home to FA Premier League football team, Portsmouth F.C., who play their home games at Fratton Park. 'Pompey', as the club is colloquially known, are the most successful football club south of Birmingham (with the exception of London clubs), having twice been crowned Champions of England. The City's second team, United Services Portsmouth F.C. play in the Wessex League Division One. Portsmouth Rugby Football Club play their home games in the London Division at Rugby Camp, Hilsea. Like many towns on the English Channel coast, watersports are popular here, particularly sailing and yachting. Locks Sailing Club at Longshore way is the city's premier dinghy sailing club. The city's rowing club is located in Southsea at the Seafront near the Hovercraft Terminal.
In literature, Portsmouth is the chief location for Jonathan Meades' novel Pompey (1993) ISBN 0-09-930821-5, in which it is inhabited largely by vile, corrupt, flawed freaks. He has subsequently admitted that he had never actually visited the city at that time. Since then he has presented a TV programme about the Victorian architecture in Portsmouth Dockyard.
The City hosts yearly rememberances of the D-Day landings to which veterans from the Allied nation travel to attend.
Crime
Portsmouth has one of the highest crime rates in the UK and has the dubious honour of being number one city in the UK for sexual assaults and rapes
Geography
Most of the city of Portsmouth lies on Portsea Island, located where the Solent joins the English Channel. This makes Portsmouth the United Kingdom's only island city and the thirteenth most densely populated place in Europe. It is the second most densely...
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