Romsey’s MP Sandra Gidley is supporting the University of Southampton’s bid to buy the Broadlands Archive. The university launched an appeal this week to raise the £2.85 million asking price. The archives contain 4,500 boxes of material, which dates
SPARSHOLT College fears it has lost £1.9m after funding for its campus redevelopment programme was suspended. The land-based college had ambitious proposals to spend around £122m on new teaching blocks at Sparsholt and a new "campus developments
FESTIVE fundraisers are needed to part in a Santa Fun Run in Winchester on December 6. Around 100 runners are expected for the event which will see runners donning Santa suits to run, jog or walk the 5km route in aid of Naomi House Children’s Hospice
A NEW version of 1984, by George Orwell, which was published 60 years ago this year, is coming to The Point in Eastleigh. Shunning technology and special effects, the show will feature acting, old-fashioned props, and puppetry. Acknowledging the many
SIR — It’s already started, with Waitrose up and running, their staff have taken to parking just inside the Fromond Road turning. All it takes is a car to park on the opposite side and no public service vehicle can get by. Would it take a resident
TICKETS are now on sale for the concert to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Waynflete Singers in Winchester. The choir is starting the celebrations with a fanfare of Christmas works starting with three 17th century composers — Gabrieli, Praetorius
SIR — In its haste to tidy up Winchester, the city council has now decreed that the use of temporary roadside signs to advertise theatrical productions at Winchester’s own Theatre Royal is now forbidden. My lovely pink notices publicising the Operatic
AN appeal has been lodged after plans for 10 new homes at Droxford in the Meon Valley were turned down. The applicant, Kebbell Homes, wants to bulldoze Townsend, a bungalow in Northend Lane, and put the new dwellings in its place. Winchester City Council
Traffic was delayed in Hursley after a two-car crash on the outskirts of the village. The incident happened on Tuesday afternoon on the Winchester Road near the entrance to IBM. No-one is thought to have been seriously injured. The photograph was
A NEWLY-FORMED charity set up by a Bramdean woman has raised more than £2,500 for children in Africa. Francesca Simms, of Bramdean Common, near Alresford, established the Children’s Community Care Network International. It held a sponsored walk in
HAMPSHIRE police are holding a road show in a village near Winchester for people with disabilities to learn more about policing. Officers and staff from across the force will be visiting The Grove, Church Lane, in Kings Worthy between midday and 4pm
HUNDREDS of people crammed into Winchester city centre last night to watch the annual Christmas lights switch on. The evening saw festive performances from classical singers Blake, Lymington Junior School Choir and the Winchester University
HAMPSHIRE countryside will form part of Britain's newest national park in the South Downs, it's been confirmed. Environment secretary Hilary Benn has rubber-stamped the 632 sq mile park, which stretches from Winchester across east Hampshire and into
THE chairman of the Conservative Party vowed to chain himself to allotments to stop them being developed for housing Eric Pickles, MP, described the inclusion of the “green gyms” in the latest Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment as “ludicrous
Patron, Lord Brabourne, will be one of the readers at this year’s Wessex Cancer Trust Carol Concert at Romsey Abbey on December 2. The president of the trust, the Earl of Malmesbury, will also give a reading. Chaplain to the trust and BBC Radio Solent
