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Carer hailed snow hero
A HAMPSHIRE home carer has been hailed a snow hero after she gave up her weekend off to look after a frail 93-year-old man. Christine Calder was asked by Hampshire social services to make an emergency check on Alfred Preecy who lives alone in the Boyatt
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Tirade in the snow
ESME loves snow. Really loves it. Some dogs have to be dragged out into the cold but she can’t wait to rush out, scamper and show us the latest trick. She stands on her front legs, lifting her back ones off the ground and buries her snout into the snow
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Ethiopia beckons for city video team
TWO members of a Winchester video production team are going to Ethiopia this month to film the work that has taken place over the past 25 years to support orphans and communities devastated by famine and poverty. Travelling with Nic Yeeles
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Search on for kind-hearted driver
A HAMPSHIRE family want to find a mystery driver who drove their seriously ill son to hospital when their car got stuck on an icy road. Five-year-old Leukaemia sufferer Calum Horrocks was being rushed to the Royal Hampshire County Hospital
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College boys clear hospital car park
YOUNGSTERS got busy with shovels to clear a car park full of snow at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital (RHCH) in Winchester. Twenty-five pupils from Winchester College spent two hours clearing a visitor and patient car park yesterday (Jan 13) that
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Civic life returning to normal
WINCHESTER is slowly getting back to normal today as rising temperatures begins to thaw the snow and ice. All schools across central Hampshire have now reopened after enduring more than a week of disruption. Refuse crews are today beginning the task
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Community spirit wins through
JUST as life was getting back to normal, another heavy snowfall early yesterday (Wednesday) brought more slippery chaos. Drivers again endured dangerous roads, thousands of children had yet another day off and pedestrians again had to tread
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Pioneering campaign aims to boost rural tourism
SALARIED partners, Karen Webb and Mike Owen, from Coffin Mew’s social housing team, have been elected to equity partner status from the beginning of the firm’s next financial year. Karen joined Coffin Mew in 2001 and, prior to this, worked
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Parking controls could be tightened
COUNCIL chiefs are poised to douse the district in yellow paint as they seek to tighten parking controls. Single yellow lines will be coming to some streets, while some existing ones will be upgraded to double lines. The proposals are
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Supermarket boosted by survey
SUPERMARKET bosses say they have been cheered by the result of their latest survey over plans to build a new superstore on the edge of Bishop’s Waltham town centre. Sainsbury’s polled more than 13,000 people last July about the proposed new
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Winchester council boss vow over Silver Hill
WINCHESTER civic boss George Beckett last night vowed to press on with the vision to transform a chunk of the city centre. The £100 million Silver Hill Renaissance for new shops, homes and bus station is hanging in the balance after the
