A CASH-strapped Hampshire council has paid out more than half a million pounds of taxpayers’ cash to restore a First World War warship. The county council approved £250,000 for a refit of the gunboat, known as HMS M33 Minerva, in this year’s budget
SCHOOLCHILDREN at Bishop's Waltham Junior school have been learning all about graft, commitment and perseverance. Led by their Year 3 teacher, Rebecca Chase, they’ve put the hours in this year to transform overgrown scrubland into a working vegetable
WINCHESTER civic chiefs have been given a cash boost in the will of a former city resident. The city council stands to receive a £530,000 bequest this month from the will of Harold Harris, who died in Hong Kong in August 2011. One of his conditions
IT’S not the Tour de France but it may have felt like it by the end. More than 100 cyclists took part in the Winchester to Wantage ride on Sunday (July 14). Mayor and Mayoress of Winchester, Ernie and Barbara Jeffs, launched the ride at Hyde
JOHN Nunn who died earlier this month was the first meteorologist, the first bomber pilot and the first computer salesman to become Mayor of Winchester. He was also the first mayor probably of anywhere to have taken part in the famous Great Escape
MORE council-run care homes and day centres could close in Hampshire as part of a shake-up of elderly care. County chiefs are to make an announcement today (Thursday July 18) which will affect some of the most vulnerable and disabled pensioners
COUNTRYSIDE campaigners are gearing up for battle against a second wind farm in the Hampshire Downs. Energy firm TCI has applied to Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council for permission to put six 130-metre tall turbines at Woodmancott, near Micheldever
GOOD timing! Here are the snow leopard cubs, emerging into the sweltering heatwave. The trio have taken their first steps in the sunshine at Marwell Wildlife near Winchester. Their thick furry coats are more suited to the barren peaks of central
A HEATWAVE health warning has been issued across the south as the region remains in the grip of hot weather. Council bosses, charities and health professionals put their staff on high alert as Hampshire faced its hottest day of the year today when temperatures
PLANS will be revealed tomorrow (FRI) for the third solar farm in the Winchester district. The public will have the chance to see what Beta Solar propose for farmland between Alresford and Bishop’s Sutton. They want to erect 52,000 panels on some 48
