SKILLED hedgelayers will take part in the county championships near Alresford on Sunday October 19. Around 20 competitors are expected at the event at Hattingley Barn at Medstead from 9am to 5pm, by permission of Simon Robison. There will be
AS children performed in front of proud parents and teachers a village near Winchester filled with the harmonious melodies from a bygone age. Pupils at Twyford School took the congregation for a tuneful trip down memory lane with a special WWI
A LANDSCAPE architect will speak about his work in Itchen Abbas tonight. Dominic Cole is chairman of the Garden History Society and the National Trust Gardens Advisory Panel. He has experience at the Eden Project, and will talk as part of an
THE celebration of the annual bounty of nature filled Winchester Cathedral Close over the weekend. The church in recent years has held a major festival to mark the end of the annual harvest in Hampshire. There was a farmers’ market, a mobile
A KINGS Worthy resident is celebrating after raising £5,000 for Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance. Jackie Watson, of Worthy Down Lane, will climb Mount Kilimanjaro in February, and held a fundraising race night on September 11 at Itchen
A SOUTHAMPTON credit union has said it wants to open a Winchester service point following the closure of the city's only branch. As previously reported, Hampshire Credit Union, or United Savings and Loans (USAL) as it is known, closed eight of
CONSERVATIONISTS at a Hampshire estate are celebrating a breakthrough in their battle to save one of Britain’s most endangered farmland birds. Researchers at Rotherfield Park Estate near Alton, have spotted 100 wild grey partridges on their land
GRAB your most daring wig – Littleton residents will be partying in style later this month. There will be plenty of wig-wearers propping themselves up at the bar at Littleton Millennium Memorial Hall for ‘Pig, Swig, Wig and Jig’ on October 18.
A POWERBOAT company based in Romsey will appear in New York this week as part of Santander’s Women in Business event. Fiona Pool, chief executive officer of Hunton Powerboats, is one of nine UK business owners at the event in the Big Apple which
IT was a busy few days for a Winchester music venue, after appointing a new manager and cancelling three events. The Railway Inn, in St Paul’s Hill, unexpectedly cancelled three events in just two days last week amid reports that its manager Ben
WINCHESTER civic chiefs were warned against “playing Zoo Tycoon” with a money-making housing company they could launch to tackle a shortage of affordable homes in the city. The city council is considering opening a company to compete in the private
A SELL-OFF of Winchester hospital land in 2011 would not have gone through if the city’s new health trust were in control, a meeting heard. The former Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust sold Royal Hampshire County Hospital land in Burma
Romsey Young Carers are holding a quiz night later this month. The event, in the main hall at Romsey School on October 18, will be open to teams of up to eight. The doors open at 6.30pm for a 7pm start. Tickets cost £10 (£5 for under-14s
An organisation which is fighting slavery will be showcasing its work at an event in Romsey this weekend. Hope for Justice, a social action movement focused on ending human trafficking and slavery, brings its “Plus You” tour to Romsey School on
The Romsey War Memorial Archive has put out a request for information and photographs of the men who are commemorated on the town’s war memorial. The material is required for an exhibition entitled “Romsey in the Great War” to be jointly hosted
THEY strutted their stuff to raise much-need funds for charity. The ‘Ladies Night Out’ saw the latest fashions from Winchester stores LK Bennett, Boudoir Blush and Marvellous Millinery paraded down the catwalk. The four-star Winchester Hotel
