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Winchester City Council is called to improve recycling targets
COUNCILLORS have called on Winchester City Council to improve its recycling performance. Winchester residents currently recycle around 36 per cent of waste and Lib Dem leader Kelsie Learney said the city should be doing more to reach the national
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Civic chiefs boost budget with surplus cash
WINCHESTER civic chiefs have approved boosting this year's budget with surplus cash from last year. The council saved around £2.7m on capital expenditure last year due to a mix of increased income and underspend. A full council meeting approved
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Sparsholt College students graduate at Winchester Cathedral
IT WAS the perfect day to start the rest of their lives. Hundreds of students graduated from Sparsholt College yesterday (July 17) at a ceremony at Winchester Cathedral. Proud parents came from all over the country with tears in their eyes
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Winchester's Lib Dems criticise Tory transport costs
LIBERAL Democrats have slammed Winchester’s Conservative administration’s transport costs. The city council spent £143,181 on internal business travel last year, including nearly £105,000 on staff mileage, £25,414 on public transport, £12,932 on
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Plans for massive festival near Winchester finalised
FINAL details of the BoomTown festival near Winchester have been announced. The event at Matterley Bowl on August 8-11 will see thousands of people arrive for the self-styled ‘the UK’s maddest city.’ A hotline number for local residents to contact
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Scouts in plea for more Barton Farm facilities
IT must surely have been a first when a beaver appeared before councillors at the Barton Farm forum. At Tuesday’s meeting, Winchester’s Scouts and Beavers made an impassioned plea to councillors and developers to ensure a good facility for them
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Teenage siblings to tackle mammoth cycling challenge
A PAIR of Hampshire siblings are tackling a mammoth charity cycling challenge. Teenagers Mollie and Wilfrid van Geest will cycle more than 600 miles from Headley Court in Surrey to Klosters, Switzerland. They aim to raise £5,000 for Skiing
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Thousands raised for charity at Winchester's Pedal Paddle Pace
MORE than 400 competitors battled through the blazing heat to raise some £15,000 for cancer charity. Pedal Paddle Pace attracted 428 athletes for the triathlon that started and finished in Winchester. The mayor, Ernie Jeffs had started the
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Woman cut free from wreckage of car crash in Weeke
EMERGENCY services had to cut a woman free from the wreckage of a crash in Weeke on Saturday. Three vehicles were involved in the collision at about 1.30pm on Stoney Lane, with one woman rushed to hospital by ambulance. A spokesman for Hampshire
