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  • New mobile phone to improve lives of elderly in Winchester

    A NEW mobile phone is set to make life easier for older people in Winchester. Age UK has launched a phone designed to make calls at the touch of one button and are handing them out at the charity's High Street shop. Philip Voce, chairman of

  • Olympic medallist Dani King opens Hockley Viaduct

    A £1m restoration and decades of campaigning later, the Hockley Viaduct finally officially reopened yesterday. Civic chiefs hope it will boost the wellbeing and fitness of Hampshire residents, and fittingly the county’s own gold medal-winning Olympic

  • Bomb squad evacuate home after shell find

    A teenager sparked a bomb scare when he took home a World War II shell. Bomb disposal experts were called to 13-year-old Thomas Sheaf’s home in Spearywell Road, Mottisfont, by his father, Kelvin, who became worried after doing some detective works on

  • Naked rambler arrested near Winchester

    HAMPSHIRE’S naked rambler has found himself facing court once again after his lack of clothes sparked numerous calls to police in a village near Winchester. Stephen Gough, 53, was arrested in Shawford Road, Shawford, on Friday afternoon following

  • Make tracks for model exhibition

    Romsey will be the destination for model railway enthusiasts from near and far when members of Romsey & District Railway Modellers Society stage their 34th annual exhibition at the recently-refurbished Crosfield Hall. Layouts in a variety of scales