MORE applications have been made by mobile phone company Vodafone to build masts in Winchester. It includes one site where the firm has twice withdrawn its plans, faced with vocal opposition from residents. The site is at Stoke Road in Abbotts Barton
CIVIC chiefs have come up with a new plan for the future of Winchester for the next five years. Winchester Town Forum has drafted the ‘Vision for Winchester 2012-2017’ plan which sets out key guidelines for future decisions about economic and
CIVIC chiefs in Alresford have congratulated a popular member of the community who won a Mayor’s Award. Maureen Mayers was rewarded in the 2012 Mayor’s Award for her work running the Alresford Lunch Club and other community services. City councillor
IT’S not just the Queen who is celebrating a diamond anniversary this year. Gladys Trickle, 86, was last week treated to a surprise party after 60 years of volunteering at All Saints Church in Bramdean, near Alresford. Gladys, of nearby Hinton Ampner
HE lost both legs in Afghanistan, but that is not going to stop Sergeant Simon Harmer cycling across America. The injured serviceman from Kings Worthy will be riding a specially adapted hand-driven bike for the challenge. He will be joined
A POLICE community support officer (PSCO) has been drafted in to help schoolchildren across a street in Romsey hit by a surge in traffic. This is to cover for a lollipop man who usually stands on the Botley Road crossing but has been taken sick and will
“We’d rather be in Romsey” was the message emblazoned across the chests of angry council workers who took part in a protest outside their offices last Monday. Around 25 Test Valley Borough Council staff donned specially- printed Romsey T-shirts and carried
A GROUP of students at Winchester University have become pioneers. Third year media students Vicky Ledger, Alex Moore, Adam Pacitti, Joel Stocker, Anthony Bennett and Charmian Goss are the first students at the university to produce work on
