A WINCHESTER woman is the first female general secretary for the Baptist Union of Great Britain. Rev Lynn Green, 48, originally from Harestock, has been serving as the regional minister with the Southern Counties Baptist Association. She was
TWO Winchester supermarkets are inviting customers to vote on their new charity partner. Sainsbury’s Middle Brook Street and Badger Farm stores are hunting for a new cause for their annual scheme. Over the past two years the shops have raised
AS the priest in charge of the Upper Itchen Benefice, his job presents a varied range of challenges. So you might think that when Rev Graham Bowkett, a former soldier, jumped out of an aeroplane to raise money for local charities, he didn’t lose
PARTYGOERS are urged to get out their dancing shoes for a ruby anniversary ball in aid of an Alresford school is on Saturday July 13. Sun Hill Junior School is putting on a ball to celebrate 40 years of the school with a three-course Spanish-themed
A HAMPSHIRE-based child bereavement charity is staging a Thai Banquet in Winchester. Simon Says hopes to raise proceeds from the event on May 14 at the Bangkok Brasserie on Jewry Street. The evening will comprise welcome drinks, a three-course banquet
A TEENAGER from Barton Peveril is winning classes in baton twirling stateside after she took up the family tradition. Emily Babb started baton twirling at the age of four when she joined the Spencerettes, a corps her grandparents founded in Eastleigh
FORMER Winchester MP, Rear Admiral Sir Morgan Morgan-Giles, has died aged 98. He represented the city from 1964, when he contested a by-election following the resignation of Peter Smithers, until 1979 when he was succeeded by John Browne. Sir Morgan
