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  • The latest Alresford news: in brief

    * TIME is running out to get tickets for Alresford Community Theatre Society’s musical, Oklahoma!, to be staged from  Thursday to Saturday, February 20-22. The show will be at 7.30pm on the three days, with a 2pm show on Saturday at Perins School

  • Old Alresford parishioners farewell to priest

    PARISHIONERS packed Old Alresford church to say goodbye to their priest. St. Mary's Church was filled to capacity on Sunday February 2 for a special service  marking the Rev Bryce Fletcher's retirement from his five years' ministry in the Arle

  • Winchester flooding: latest

    WE are now in unknown territory. That's the message coming out of Winchester, with Environment Agency officers calling the situation 'critical'. Mike O'Neil, an EA operations manager, said: “If we get much more water we're going to see homes flooded

  • Army engineers today help with flood work in Winchester

    SOLDIERS were today building a third and fourth emergency barrier near Winchester in a bid to save the city from the deluge. An eight-man team from 22 Royal Engineers, based at Tidworth, were lowering more than 200 giant bags filled with gravel

  • Family farm controls the food chain from field to plate

    IT’S a burger with a difference and it’s packed with benefits to people’s health. A Test Valley company that produces burgers made of meat from farm animals grazed on chemical-free pastures is set to dish them up a new-style restaurant in Southampton