FOR the fifth year running, adult social care services in Hampshire have been given a two-star rating. Council chiefs said they were "delighted" to keep their two stars, despite growing financial difficulties. The council was judged to be "serving most
A CONTROVERSIAL scheme to build a new Romsey area household waste recycling centre on the town's outskirts has been binned. Hampshire County Council leader, Ken Thornber, ditched the idea following consultation with other cabinet members and widespread
FEARS that this year's Netley Marsh Steam and Craft Show would be the last have been wiped away. There was a serious danger that the show would come to an end after it was plunged into a £7,000 deficit. It had gone into this year's event with reserves
PLANS to move 160 Environment Agency workers to the edge of a Romsey residential area have sparked fears of major traffic flows past brand new homes. The Agency has a site off Romsey's Canal Walk which is the base for 24 staff, six of whom are office-based
ROMSEY School is top of the class when it comes to involvement in the community and it has a national award to prove it. The school picked up the Community School of the Year title at the 2006 Children and Young People's Services Awards in London. Headteacher
The Point in Eastleigh has launched its new Young People's Theatre, aimed at young people of all ages in and around the borough. Heidi Vaughan, the newly-appointed Young People's Theatre director, aims to recruit up to 150 enthusiastic youngsters to
ROMSEY'S Bradbeers department store is all geared up again for the Christmas rush despite having more than £20,000 worth of perfumes, cosmetics and clothes stolen. It has acted quickly to replace the goods which were taken when smash-and-grab raiders
TEST Valley Borough councillors have objected to the new Romsey Primary School's access arrangements in the strongest possible terms. The decision, taken by 16 votes to nil at a meeting of the Borough Council's Southern area planning committee was met
PLANS for a £52 million road widening on the M27 south of Romsey have been unveiled this week. The work, due to start in 2008, is likely to last for around 15 months. It will include the creation of a fourth lane on both the eastbound and westbound
A SPECIAL green' project built by people with disabilities and the unemployed has opened at Ampfield's Sir Harold Hillier Gardens. A team of 30 trainees from the Beneficial Foundation created the Beneficial Garden using recycled and re-usable materials
A LOCAL historian has produced an updated version of a popular book chronicling Romsey's pubs past and present. Barbara Burbridge is behind the second edition of So Drunk He Must Have Been To Romsey, even though she is teetotal. "I don't drink alcohol
A PLANNING appeal hearing has been fixed for next April over proposals to build homes at the rear of Romsey's White Horse Hotel. But Test Valley planners have not ruled out the possibility that further negotiations might resolve the issue before then
MORE police officers are being drafted into villages around Stockbridge following a night of destruction -resulting in 20 cars being damaged. Yobs struck at Broughton, Houghton and neighbouring Bossington during Monday night leaving motorists with repair
A SURVEY has revealed that the CLA Game Fair brought almost £16 million worth of economic benefit to the area around Romsey when it came to Broadlands last summer. The event attracted 138,000 people and the Economic Impact Survey was conducted by the
