WINCHESTER will head back to the Dark ages in half term as Angles, Saxons and Jutes invade the city. Local re-enactment group Weorod will be visiting the City Museum in The Square, Winchester on Friday October 29 and Saturday October 30 to teach visitors
RISING tuition fees could cause Winchester University to lose out on future students The Browne Report released on Tuesday, October 12, recommended universities should be allowed to set the price of their tuition fees. Fees are currently
A CHURCH in Winchester held a ‘noughtie’ anniversary last Sunday (October 10). It was organised to mark birthdays and anniversaries of parishioners that took place this year ending in zero. St Luke’s Church in Stanmore timed the event to take place
BIDDERS are being invited to come forward as Winchester City Council seeks to install solar panels on up to 2,000 houses. Cabinet members backed the project when they met at the city’s guildhall on Wednesday, October 13. Tory opposition councillors
FOR those who think they have tried every cuisine in Winchester, here’s something new and unusual. Normally the Forte Tea Rooms in Parchment Street only opens during the day, but it is going nocturnal thanks to Sri Lankan Cuisine. The family-run catering
SCHOOL pupils in Winchester are branching into new territory by starting their own bank. Youngsters at Oliver’s Battery Primary School can open accounts, put in pocket money, and receive regular statements. The bank is being run by pupils
KINGS Worthy Parish Council organised a successful litter pick at their headquarters. More than 30 volunteers turned up at the Kings Worthy Community Centre at Tubbs Hall on Saturday, October 2 to collect rubbish from the area. Parishioners aged between
UNEMPLOYMENT has fallen again in the Winchester area. There were 815 claimants of job seekers’ allowance in September, a drop of 38 from August, and a fall of 315 from the same month in 2009. Winchester and Chandler’s Ford MP Steve Brine has welcomed
Police in Winchester are appealing for information following a burglary in Edgar Road on Friday, October 15. Between 1.15am and 7.30pm a rear door to the back yard of a property in the road was forced and someone gained access via an insecure door.
TOMMY Jessop, the Winchester-based actor, has a starring role in a new BBC Radio 4 play, The Climb, which airs next week. He performs the role of Frankie, who like himself, has Down’s Syndrome and is one of three characters that takes on a massive challenge
‘ ... Blogsbee Tales are as twisted as The Great Blogsbee, after he’s tied off a couple of jars of Bridport Copper at his favourite, medieval Tichborne Arms in Make-Believe Cressroads ... oh ... and happy birthday,” the town hack of the self-styled
SEVENTY-YEARS-YOUNG, Blogsbody lay awake within a blink of St John-the-Baptist’s gold-on-black hands moving into position for its dozen disturbing dongs to resound through the town from Bishop de Lucy’s 12th century Alresford-on-Arle bell tower
