JAMES Blunt is once again at the sharp end of the UK charts, this time for having the biggest selling album of the decade. His 2004 debut effort, Back to Bedlam, has been named as selling the most copies of any album in Britain from 2000 to
YOUNG musicians in Winchester are set to secure a permanent home after receiving civic and charitable grants. The city council has allocated £3,000 for the Winnall Rock School to move to a new permanent base at the King Alfred Youth Activity
ROMSEY could become home to Britain’s largest indoor skatepark. Town-based Gravity Engineering Ltd, which builds skateparks across the UK, is behind the ambitious £1.4m project to convert the former Cambridge Capacitors premises on the Budds Lane trading
FOUR south Hampshire MPs have backed a Commons motion challenging IBM on its retirement plans. Nearly 100 MPs from all parties have now signed up to the parliamentary motion calling on the US technology giant to protect the pension benefits
ONE of the biggest regeneration schemes in Winchester history is today teetering on the edge of collapse. Thornfield Properties has been placed in administration, threatening the £100 million Silver Hill Renaissance. It had envisaged
THEY gave up Christmas Day with their families to help save Hampshire lives. While most of us were putting our feet up dedicated paramedics from the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance (HIOWAA) were working on December 25. Their commitment was
WINCHESTER is slowly getting back to normal this morning but a covering of snow and ice still remains. With no fresh snowfalls overnight access to the city centre has improved with the high street now clear of the treacherous ice that plagued
SNOW and ice has caused havoc on Test Valley roads and pavements and left wheelchair-bound residents trapped in their Romsey home. Clients at the town’s Fryers House Leonard Cheshire centre have been stranded because the side road leading to
