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  • Fundraiser tours coming to St Cross Hospital

    ST CROSS Hospital is offering the people of Winchester a guided tour with a difference. The tour will feature some 20 actors, both well-known and amateur, portraying historical figures, providing an educational and entertaining tour in a bid to

  • Perins consults on plans to increase pupil numbers

    PERINS School in Alresford is consulting parents over plans to take on more pupils and to alter the criteria for admissions. The secondary school wants to raise its admission number from 208 to 215 with effect from September 2014. The expansion

  • Winchester MP hosts meeting on UK foreign aid policy

    WINCHESTER residents learned more about the UK foreign aid program last week. Around 100 people joined MP Steve Brine at a meeting at St Paul’s Church, Fulflood, on Thursday, November 8. He was joined by Stephen O’Brien, MP for Eddisbury, Cheshire

  • Ash trees given emergency health check

    A MAJOR survey has begun across the New Forest to discover if ash trees have been infected with a deadly disease sweeping the country’s tree population. The Forestry Commission has said it will start the research to determine how many of the at-risk

  • Police probe Michael Mates home address allegation

    POLICE are investigating a fraud allegation against one of the front-runners in Hampshire’s Police Commissioner election. Tory Michael Mates has been accused of not putting his proper address on official forms in order to run for the post.

  • War dead honoured at Winchester Cathedral

    WINCHESTER fell silent yesterday as hundreds gathered at the cathedral to remember those who have made the ultimate sacrifice. This year remembrance Sunday fell on the actual date of the armistice which signalled the end of the First World War

  • Winchester school's old boys welcome mayor as guest of honour

    The newly-named Symondians' Association (formerly known as Old Symondians' Society) welcomed Mayor of Winchester, Frank Pearson, and mayoress Anne Pearson, as honorary guests at their annual Winchester Dinner. Around sixty people attended the event