GREAT Western Ambulance bosses have pledged to pump a huge cash injection into improving services in Wiltshire. Chief executive Anthony Marsh announced an extra £6.75m has been secured by the Great Western Ambulance Service Trust to recruit more staff
A pensioner has branded plans to build more than a thousand new homes on the Romsey’s doorstep as complete “stupidity” and the town council has agreed with her. Eileen Sadie, who lives at David Court, made a passionate plea to town councillors to block
SIR — As an annual season ticket holder for Tower Street car park, I am at my wits end. Although my ticket costs £1,190 per annum, I accept that I am not guaranteed a car parking space and that if I arrive after 9am I may have to drive round until
A NORTH Baddesley singer is on her way to becoming Britain’s Idol 2008. Denise Medley (pictured) won the southern heat of the regional finals of the nationwide competition last month and now she’s in the grand final and up against singers from
MOTTISFONT’S past holds the key to shaping the village’s future as a growing tourist attraction. That’s the view of the National Trust bosses who are preparing a conservation blueprint for Mottisfont Abbey and most of the surrounding village, which
SIR — Users of the Harestock bus know that last year Stagecoach instructed drivers NOT to pick up passengers outside the library. Reasons given were “confusion and danger” caused by arrivals of No. 1 Stanmore bus displaying Harestock, but being destined
SIR — There must be many people like me who don’t report when they trip up. I tripped up on a drain cover on the pavement in Kingsgate Street and ended up in Southampton General Hospital with a broken jaw, badly bruised shoulder, hip and leg, for which
SIR — I use the A32 Fareham to Soberton road almost daily and when I turn right into Soberton it is like going off-road, as the surface throughout the village is a disgrace. I am puzzled as to why the road from Middlington crossroads to the Swanmore
BUDDING composers from a school near Winchester have scooped top prize in a county-wide music competition. Youngsters from John Keble Primary School in Hursley will sing their award-winning Christmas carol at Winchester Cathedral next month
A WINCHESTER property boss has given reassurances over the £100 million Silver Hill scheme. Fears are growing that the economic downturn will scupper the ambitious plans by the city council and Thornfield Properties to redevelop the site in
A WINCHESTER schoolgirl has been told she is suspended from lessons for having newly-dyed hair — but her sister’s dyed hair is deemed acceptable. Kirby Moore, 13, has been informed she will be taught in isolation at Kings’ School in Winchester
MORE than 200 people helped raise money by walking the Watercress Line. It was the 19th annual walk along the steam railway but few will have been in such poor weather. One of those walking last Saturday was Eric Pavey, 92, a volunteer on the railway
