GOOD news first. I would like to congratulate the Hampshire Chronicle staff on the renewed and interesting publications of every kind. 

The reason I say this is because you have made your back pages alive with stories and items whereas in the past years the last pages have been empty. You use everything that you have got. It's much, much more interesting to someone like me who has always supported the Hampshire Chronicle whether I am in it or not. 

So that is good news. Now wouldn't it be wonderful if that good news could follow on by other most important things happening here in the city of Winchester. Sensible decisions on Andover Road being made. The closing down and the running down, to be halted, in the hospital here which was, in its day, one of the finest.

You wouldn't find anyone who was frightened to go into hospital here. That is not the case now. We are coming up to the festive season. I hope you will agree that I am not just talking about Christmas, because I have been a campaigner about this for years. We live in very, very troubled times. We should look at the long-term and the long-term population explosion to a degree that we won't be able to cope without our hospital. So whilst I wish everyone, all your readers, all people who are concerned, the very best for Christmas and the new year, think hard and long about the developments being proposed for this beautiful city of Winchester.  

Eileen Berry,
Priors Dean Road,
Harestock,
Winchester

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