DAME Judi Dench has confirmed that she is coming to Winchester this summer as part of the new Best of British Festival. She had already agreed to be a patron of the event, which is due to run from Friday, May 25 to Tuesday, July 26. The programme will
AROUND 700 Winchester homes were without power last weekend. Residents heard loud bangs at a substation in Greenhill Road, Fulflood, at 4.45am on Saturday shortly before a power cut. A spokesman for Southern Electric confirmed the noises were caused
AS mayoral engagements go, it had a bigger slice of rock and roll than most. Winchester mayor Cllr Barry Lipscomb visited the guitar store and workshop of Christine and Brian Hayward. Their firm in Stockbridge Road has supplied a host of Winchester
THE voices of pupils at a Romsey school will be heard over the airwaves this Easter. The Hampshire Collegiate School Choir travelled to the BBC studios in Southampton to record an Easter hymn, which will be broadcast on BBC Radio Solent on Good Friday
A WINCHESTER man died after a fall at the care home he lived at, an inquest heard. Jack Chapman, 91, sustained brain injuries after hitting his head last October in a fall in a corridor of Cornerways Care Home in Church Lane, Kings Worthy.
ROMSEY’S tourist information office is set to serve the entire Test Valley Area after Andover’s office closed on April 1. A special hotline to the Romsey office will be set up at the Andover’s arts centre, The Lights, which will became one of six “tourist
A WINCHESTER environmental charity is organising a sponsored walk. Winchester Action on Climate Change (WinACC) wants to raise funds to support their efforts to reduce the city’s carbon footprint. The trek, starting at St Maurice's Covert, in Winchester
