IT was celebration time for children in Stanmore at the launch of the estate’s first purpose-built nursery. Poppins Nursery, in the Carroll Centre, will cater for up to 32 children aged two to four. Mayor of Winchester, Cllr Eileen Berry, enjoyed
SPARSHOLT Parish Council has a new clerk. Janice Whittle retired from the post at the beginning of this month after 10 years. She is succeeded by Jill Judge, of Woodman Lane. The email address remains clerk.sparsholt@parish.hants.gov.uk
THE deadline is approaching for Kings Worthy residents to have their say on a bigger community hall. The parish council is currently asking for feedback on whether or not people would be in favour of a larger multi-room hall. Suggestions have
A TABLE top sale will be held in Alresford to raise funds for the Patchwork nursery. The sale, organised by the POP Group (Parents of Patchwork) will be in the sports hall at Perins School on Sunday March 29 from 9.30-11.30am.
THE date has been announced for this year’s Annual Twyford Litter Pick. On Saturday, March 28, Vicki Dunlop and Trish Mardon will be waiting at St Mary’s Church from 9.30am to allocate roads and areas. Volunteers are asked to bring old gardening
OWSLEBURY Parish Council is urging residents to look after their village following a spate of dog-fouling. Villagers have complained about fouling at the recreation ground in Longwood Road, bus stops and at the Ship Inn gardens when the pub is
VULNERABLE patients at Winchester hospital will keep active with the help of fun and games from new specialists. Puzzles, crafts, bingo and 1930s nostalgia will be used to help elderly and long-term ill patients move and talk during their stay.
BEST friends Sophie Kilburn and Erin Woolterton became acquainted with the wildlife at Marwell Zoo as they represented their Brownie pack at a Girl Guiding roadshow. The girls from the 1st Alresford pack were amongst 600 rainbows, brownies and
THE Running Horse pub in Littleton has a new landlady. Anita Peel took over around a month ago from her previous role at the Pilgrim Inn, in Marchwood, Southampton. She said: “It has been brilliant. I live in Winchester and have done for 20
ALRESFORD Town Council is looking in to seating for the football club so it doesn’t get suspended from the Wessex league. The full council meeting on Thursday, March 12, heard the club needs 100 seats to stay in its division. Councillors said
HAMPSHIRE councillors have granted over a quarter of a million pounds to organisations across the county to help its older residents. The Older Persons Adult Services Community Support Grant was agreed to unanimously by Hampshire County Councillors
PROSECUTORS have dropped a case against a pensioner who allegedly formed an 'inappropriate relationship' with a convicted serial rapist. Estelle Sandles, 72, was accused of forging the friendship with Paul Kent inside Winchester Prison where she
WRAPPERS, drink cans and cartons, carelessly flung into highway hedges, are usually painstakingly retrieved by council workers. But thanks to a recent legal shift following a series of fatal accidents nationwide, litter collection on Hampshire
