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Slimming gurus meet TV star
TWO Hampshire women got to rub shoulders with television star Vernon Kay at a glitzy anniversary. Gemma Walters and Anne Wilson - who run weight loss classes in Weeke and Four Marks respectively - met the celebrity at Slimming World's 40th birthday party
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Long holiday over
PUPILS returned to a Test Valley school this week for the first time since the Christmas holiday break. Bad weather and problems with water supplies led to the extended closure of West Tytherley Primary School on the Hampshire-Wiltshire border last
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Citizens’ rights to privacy 'underminded'
DOES your pot plant have pests, is your fridge energy efficient, or are you practising unregulated hypnotism? Almost 1,000 snooping council officers in Hampshire have the power to come into your home if they think the answer to any of those
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Epiphany supper survives the weather
Some 70 people braved icy roads and sub-zero temperatures to attend the Friends of Romsey Abbey Choir’s annual Epiphany Supper. Held in the Abbey’s Church Rooms, the event raises funds for the choir’s singing holiday, which in August takes it to Newcastle
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It’s panto time at the Plaza: Oh yes it is!
AS the Christmas lights are packed away and we shiver our way through January, RAODS has the perfect answer to post-Christmas, Cinderella, probably the best-loved fairy tale of them all. Will Buttons tell Cinders he loves her? Will the evil baroness
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Tories make early start on election campaign
THE battle for who runs Britain for the next five years is hotting up and, on Monday, the Conservatives brought the fight to the marginal seat of Romsey and Southampton North. Party chiefs chose the constituency as its top target in the South-East to
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Social services praised
STAFF at Hampshire's social services department have been praised for keeping vital day-to-day care going during the wintry weather. The county's Lib Dem spokesman for social services Alan Dowden said despite the atrocious conditions staff had battled
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Charity unlikely to share in £3.4bn
A CHILDREN'S hospice with £5.7m in a failed bank is unlikely to share in a £3.4bn payout. Naomi House at Sutton Scotney is trying to recover its cash after the Icelandic banking collapse. The island's parliament has now agreed to compensate
