SIR - One of the penalties of getting old, I believe, is that everything is based these days on youth, or at least, on a generation below mine. I wonder now if people of my generation, born in the early 1920s, note this phenomenon? However, what I write
PARCEL deliveries have been delayed in central Hampshire due to staff shortages at Winchester's sorting office. Royal Mail says many packages have been held up by around 24 hours at the depot in Winnall within the last fortnight. A spokeswoman said:
A FALKLANDS veteran and teacher at Perins School has died aged 55. Bryan Winter, of Bradshaw Close, Fair Oak, taught at the school for 12 years before he fell ill at the beginning of the year. Prior to his teaching career, Mr Winter was a warrant officer
SIR - I refer to the letters in the Chronicle from Chris Corcoran on May 31, and Frank Williams on June 14. On April 7, I wrote to the Right Hon Ruth Kelly MP, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, requesting a Public Inquiry concerning
SIR - We were extremely concerned to read in the Hampshire Chronicle that the county council is considering changes to the Tower Arts Centre in Winchester. It is proposed that the venue will not continue in its present form and under the current management
SIR - I do not like the fortnightly bin collection for non-recyclable waste. I am a huge advocate of recycling. I compost everything that I can. I pass on as many yoghurt pots and non-recyclable plastics to my daughter's nursery to be made into art,
IN its 33rd year, Winchester's Hat Fair claims to be the UK's longest-running street festival, offering four days of outdoor performance and entertainment, starting on Thursday, June 28. At the launch of this year's event, at the Slug and Lettuce, in
A PET rescue centre near Fair Oak is looking in the direction of animal-loving businesses to help it complete its new building. St Francis Animal Welfare, which is in Mortimer's Lane, needs tens of thousands of pounds in order to finish the project.
A VERGER who serves the parishes of Bishop's Waltham and Swanmore has retired after 47 years. Alf Pyke, 90, helped out with all sorts of jobs in both parishes and was thanked by the Rev Andy Davis before he, too, left St Peter's Church in Bishop's Waltham
IN little more than a month, city centre businesses will be asked to vote on proposals by the Winchester City Centre Partnership to designate the central area as a Business Improvement District. The partnership has asked Winchester City Council to hold
Louise Glyde reports from the Wired gig at the Tower Arts Centre, WinchesterTHERE was plenty of rock at the first Wired gig hosted by Winchester's Tower Arts Centre on Saturday. Wired is a joint venture between the Romsey Road-based venue and The Railway
MICHAEL Hevesi is a man thinking big. The Winchester sculptor's Corridor of Life idea is now 10 years in the making and there is still plenty of work to be done. This month, he is letting people into his garden in Weeke to see 30 of the sculptures
A GRANDMOTHER had a lucky escape on Tuesday when she found an unexploded bomb in her Winchester garden. Sharon Newton, 47, (pictured) was digging in her garden in Fivefields Road, Highcliffe, which used to belong to former Winchester character, Ron Purse
AN Ebay "fraudster" has left a rugby-mad family from Ropley "devastated" and more than £1,300 out of pocket. Jeff Deacon, of Stapley Lane, logged onto the popular trading website last September after being unable to get tickets for the 2007 Rugby World
POLITICIANS and residents have been queuing up to slate the plan to relocate Winchester's main post to WH Smith's in the High Street. The Royal Mail intends to shut the Middle Brook Street outlet as part of a national cull of 70 crown post offices to
ALMOST half the students at a centre for those with learning difficulties have been missing lessons - because they can't read new bus destination screens. Adults at The Grove, a centre for people with learning difficulties in Kings Worthy, have had months
TWENTY-five years ago, Admiral of the Fleet, Sir Henry Leach, was First Sea Lord and head of the Royal Navy. He famously persuaded Margaret Thatcher the Falkland Islands could be re-taken from the Argentines. Sir Henry, now 83, lives in Wonston, near
