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Hot topic on the agenda
IT'S a controversial subject with a high profile. And now Wintonians will get a chance to learn more about it with a special evening in the city this Wednesday (January 27). Assisted dying will be the topic of a lecture by Lord Raymond
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Superfast broadband boost for businesses
ABOUT 50,000 Hampshire homes and businesses will soon be benefiting from super-fast internet speeds now that telecoms giant, BT, have converted another five telephone exchanges to fibre-optic technology. Those in Eastleigh, Chandler’s Ford, Fair Oak
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Outsourcing experts land £80m business support coup
SERCO have signed an £80m deal to provide all services for Business Link in the South-East for the next three years. It’s the first time that the business advice and support organisation has entrusted all its requirements to a single supplier. The
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New bistro deli opened without planning consent
A ROMSEY delicatessen and bistro owner has run into trouble with his neighbour who says he is trading without planning permission. But Stephen Agar-Huty, of Tastebuds, says he’s done everything possible to obtain planning permission for his Latimer
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Roadworks rethink
PLANS to close a major road for six weeks and divert thousands of vehicles have been scrapped after protests. Part of the busy A338 Ringwood to Salisbury route is about to be rebuilt and resurfaced at a cost of almost £1m. Villagers objected after
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'Robust’ approach to unauthorised sites
PLANNERS have vowed to take “robust” action if travellers move onto unauthorised sites in the Winchester district. It comes after a new landowner moved two caravans and a septic tank onto a field in Ropley without gaining planning permission.
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The net is closing in on pensioner’s killer
IT is a small community which detectives believe holds the answer to the brutal murder of a grandmother. Some 3,000 homes are this week at the centre of the hunt to find the man who tortured and then bludgeoned Georgina Edmonds to death in
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Shops' open door policy attacked
HIGH Street shops in Winchester are wasting energy and money by leaving their doors wide open during the sub-zero temperatures, green groups have warned. The practice has been labelled “shocking” and “mad”. No fewer than 30 stores — mostly national
