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  • Iconic Winchester venue will go mad - but all in a good cause

    Winchester’s Guildhall is to host An Enchanted Evening Charity Ball presented by The Mad Hatters. Catherine Turness and Claire Wellman – the faces behind the Hatters - promise the Bapsy Hall will be transformed into a ‘fairytale forest’. They

  • Roadworks leave Colden Common villagers stranded

    RESIDENTS have been left stranded after bus services were suspended after roadworks closed a major Hampshire road. Operators suspended services running along Main Road in Colden Common after water works shut the route near Fisher’s Pond for up

  • Pensioner who crashed car down 20-foot hill 'lucky to escape'

    FIREFIGHTERS have described how an elderly woman was lucky to escape after her car tumbled down a hillside in Winchester. The woman, understood to be in her 80s, was driving on Queens Road, near Florence Portal House maternity unit when she crashed

  • Man rushed to hospital from Woodley

    A MAN was taken to hospital in a life-threatening condition on Tuesday morning after emergency services were called to an address at Woodley near Romsey. Paramedics and the police were in attendance at the scene in Woodlands Gardens. A South

  • Winchester choristers feature in Swiss newspaper

    WHEN a Winchester man took a look at a Swiss newspaper he had no idea he’d be reminded of his home city. Alan Russell, of Compton Down, was sent a copy of the Tages Anzeiger from friends in Zurich which contained the familiar image of the Winchester