IT may only be November but that won’t stop Itchen Abbas Primary School from putting on their Christmas Fair! There will be Santa’s Grotto, refreshments, cakes, tombola, crafts, gifts to buy, raffle, games to play, toys, books, and DVDs. It
WINCHESTER has been ranked in the top 50 centres of retail specialist Harper Dennis Hobbs’s new Vitality Index. The list was compiled to rank the top 500 British retail centres by scoring the quality of the retail offered, rather than just the
TWO years ago a handful of Higher Education adult students graduated at a small ceremony at the Hospital of St Cross. Present day and that number has more than trebled as over 90 students from Peter Symonds College celebrated the end of their course
THE Naomi House and Jacksplace ‘Light up a Life’ service returns to Winchester Cathedral for its third year running. The service, at 2.30pm on Friday (November 21), will offer members of the public the opportunity to remember and celebrate the
JOHN Keble School in Hursley will kick off its 'Operation Outdoor' campaign later this month with an afternoon of tree-climbing, woodcarving and bushcraft. 'Treefest' will officially launch a fundraising campaign to build a number of outdoor classrooms
A £4 MILLION ‘black hole’ in the budget of Winchester City Council is looming, a meeting heard. Council officers have drawn up a forecast that shows by 2019-20 the city council could have a deficit of more than £4m. But a report said the forecast
THE Deputy Prime Minister is visiting a Hampshire business this morning. Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg is at Prysmian Cables in Eastleigh to meet with apprentices at the factory. He is here to celebrate the fact that the number of people
COUNTY chiefs proposing a major restructure to children’s services are urging the public to comment on the plans. From April 2015, Hampshire County Council wants to shift youth services to a system where organisations bid for contracts, as happens
AN INDEPENDENT parent group has said goodbye to its current chair to make way for her replacement. Sharon Smith has stepped down from The Hampshire Parent Carer Network (HPCN), which works with parents and carers of young disabled people, who will
PLANS to replace Hampshire’s police headquarters with a lucrative housing estate will be revealed to the public this week. The force’s Winchester base is set to be demolished and could make way for one of the city’s biggest new developments if
THEY are the notorious eyesores blighting the New Forest landscape. Rows of giant pylons cutting through the National Park’s picturesque scenery have long been loathed by rural communities and tourists alike. Now the enormous structures could
HISTORIC changes to social care and volunteering are on the agenda at a Winchester action group summit this month. Two senior Hampshire County Council officers will address Winchester Area Community Action’s annual general meeting on November 25
