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  • Cheap rural homes needed to 'keep village life going'

    RURAL affordable housing will be discussed at the launch of a new booklet today. A Home For Where The Heart Is illustrates life in rural affordable Hampshire and is being presented during Action Hampshire’s AGM this morning. Catherine Kirkham

  • University to hold free concert for Stanmore residents

    WINCHESTER University is hosting a free concert for residents affected by noise and anti-social behaviour on a city estate. Long-standing unrest between residents and students in Stanmore has resurfaced in recent weeks as campaigners urge civic

  • Thieves strike Winchester cafe

    THIEVES stole cash from a popular Winchester cafe after smashing a rear window. Student favourite Cafe Monde was broken into on Monday night and cash was stolen from the till. Owner Phil Simmonds said: “It was quite a clean break-in – we opened

  • 'Leave Kings Worthy alone' say villagers at homes exhibition

    “KINGS Worthy cannot take anymore” – that was the sentiment of scores of villagers as they viewed proposals for up to 50 new homes. The city council and developer HAB Housing showed ideas for building off Lovedon Lane at an exhibition on Monday

  • Location of new £150m critical treatment hospital revealed

    A NEW £150 million critical treatment hospital is set to be built in North Waltham, it was revealed on Monday. The 24-hour consultant-led centre will be based at a greenfield site between Winchester and Basingstoke on the north side of the A30,

  • Frontline officers next to go in city police cuts

    FRONTLINE policing in Winchester will suffer a serious blow as officers revealed that the sale of the city’s police station will be followed by dozens of job cuts. Last week the Chronicle reported that North Walls station is set to close, with

  • M3 horror smash victim may have been stood in road

    A WOMAN killed on a Hampshire motorway may have been struck by a passing car after she had stepped out of the car she was travelling in. Witnesses to the fatal smash on the M3's northbound carriageway report seeing the woman standing in the road

  • Power failure blacks out 600 homes

    A DAMAGED electricity cable left more than 600 homes without power and disrupted train services between Romsey and Salisbury on Wednesday. Southern Electricity engineers were called in the repair the cable near Mottisfont Abbey around mid-afternoon

  • Couple celebrate 71 years of marriage

    ONE day in 1939, teenager Charlie Lee saw a girl from across the road at Eastleigh fairground. “I was on the bumper car and Phill was on the other side of the road,” he said. “I was with my friends – I said ‘there’s a really nice girl there, I’

  • New homes in the heart of a picturesque conservation village

    A stunning development of 55 new homes in the heart of Upper Froyle has been launched. The homes are expected to be very popular, with many reservations taken off-plan and more than 40 people attending the launch event. The Linden Homes development