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Anger over parking spills over into damage
SIMMERING resentment against commuters parking their cars on a Winchester estate looks to have boiled over into a spate of vandalism. Vandals damaged 16 vehicles parked in Hillier Way, Abbotts Barton. They had their bonnets or wings scratched with
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Inspector demolishes TVBC’s ‘unsound’ housing strategy
Test Valley Borough Council’s housing plans have been thrown into disarray after the authority was forced to withdraw its controversial Core Strategy, which proposes more than 3,000 homes in the Romsey area. The borough will now have to redraft the strategy
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Conan Doyle strategy challenged
SHERLOCK Holmes — The Death and Life is coming to The Haymarket in Basingstoke at 7.30pm on Thursday next week. In this wry tale of murder, mystery and the occult, the world’s greatest detective refuses to leave the stage. Arthur Conan Doyle tires of
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A sign of a growing city?
SIR — Anyone regularly using the Stockbridge Road to access the city can’t help but have noticed that the ‘Welcome to Winchester’ sign has recently moved 100 yards closer to Stockbridge. It now lies to the north of Main Road and not, as previously, to
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Dame Judi tops the bill at annual festival
The annual Winchester Festival brings a feast of culture to Hampshire in July. Top billing goes to Dame Judi Dench, who is the festival president, and a regular visitor to the event. Her appearance at the Theatre Royal in Jewry Street on Sunday, July
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Sinfonia play for charity
WINCHESTER will play host to a charity concert from the Hampshire Recorder Sinfonia on Saturday, May 9. Starting at 7.30pm, they will be performing in the chapel of the historic Hospital of St Cross. Proceeds from the performance will go towards the
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Fed-up with dodging Hampshire’s potholes
SIR — I have been lucky enough not to have damaged my wheels as yet on Hampshire’s country roads. However, I would like to record my experiences recently after my son decided to move to Cheriton from the Hedge End area. I am now compelled to find
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Thanks for nothing
Sir — I write to thank the city council for so thoughtfully providing Alresford with some of the traffic problems already suffered by residents of Winchester. Since they moved the bus stop in West Street into the middle of the road, instead of leaving
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Drunks are spoiling this city
SIR — Is anybody watching? I ask this because I was in the cathedral grounds on Easter Monday and for one-and-a-half hours, three Winchester men were drinking alcohol, sherry, in big green bottles. When I first saw them, I thought, as they are sitting
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Bakery firm fined £18,000 for food hygiene breaches
A BAKERY firm has been fined more than £18,000 for breaches in food hygiene at its Romsey outlet. Cooks the Baker Ltd were prosecuted after a member of the public complained about cleanliness at The Palmerston in Market Place. The store manager voluntarily
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Pub calls slime on game regulars
PUNTERS have been gunged in their local pub to help raise cash for a good cause. Customers in the William IV pub in Romsey got covered in slime to help send 10 schoolchildren to Morocco to do volunteer work. Their teacher, Ruth Thornton, together with
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New supermarket depot could create 200 jobs
A CUT-PRICE supermarket giant has unveiled plans for a huge warehouse and offices at Ower, which could create 200 jobs. German retailer Lidl wants to build a regional distribution centre on a field on the edge of the New Forest National Park as part
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There are 12 million Pensioners in the UK!
There are nearly 12 million pensioners in the UK, almost 1 in 5 of the total population. 20.7 million people are aged 50 years and over, over a third of the UK population. There are more people over 60 than under 18. Nearly 1.3
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Winchester street closed off again
WINCHESTER'S Parchment Street was closed again today – just days after it was reopened. Traffic returned to the city centre street earlier this week following a fortnight of road resurfacing work, and the installation of the kite sculpture
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Police ask for closure order extension
POLICE will today (Friday) ask magistrates to keep a Winchester drugs den closed for a further three months. Officers swooped to shut down a property in Cromwell Road, Stanmore, in February, to prevent occupant Andrew Storey from gaining access
