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Colden Common family's Caribbean holiday from hell

11:34am Friday 12th March 2010

IT was a £5,000 trip of a lifetime for one family near Winchester.

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Inquest abandoned after new evidence

10:12am Wednesday 3rd March 2010

AN inquest into the murder of a Winchester mum has dramatically collapsed at an estimated cost of more than £100,000 to the taxpayer.

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Charity Sundays for Twyford salon

4:20pm Sunday 28th February 2010

A HAIR salon in Twyford will be opening its doors on Sundays to raise money for charity.

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Rapist Rice given "almost total freedom"

9:08am Saturday 27th February 2010

A VIOLENT sex offender was given "almost total freedom" just six weeks before murdering Hampshire mum Naomi Bryant.

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Funeral firm finds new home... six feet under!

5:00pm Friday 26th February 2010

A CHARITY promoting DIY funerals has found a fitting new home near Winchester — in a former nuclear bunker 6ft under ground.

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Hostel manager thought Rice posed "low risk"

9:22am Friday 26th February 2010

A HAMPSHIRE hostel that housed a violent rapist who went on to murder thought he posed a low risk of re-offending.

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Rapist's risk not assessed until after parole meeting

8:10am Thursday 25th February 2010

A VIOLENT sex offender's risk was not formally assessed until two days after a parole board agreed to his release.

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Missing knowledge on Bryant's murderer

9:41am Wednesday 24th February 2010

A PROBATION officer had glaring gaps in her knowledge of a violent sex offender before she helped release him.

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Woman 'was murdered by violent sex attacker'

1:50pm Monday 22nd February 2010

A WINCHESTER woman was murdered by a violent sex attacker who had been released from prison just nine months earlier, an inquest was told today.

Council tax up by 1.9pc for second year in a row

9:25am Wednesday 17th February 2010

HAMPSHIRE council chiefs are proposing a 1.9 per cent rise in council tax for the second year running.

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Residents won't keep quiet on M3 noise

10:53am Monday 15th February 2010

VILLAGERS are keeping up the pressure on transport chiefs to resurface one of the south’s busiest roads.

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Neglected grave scheme launched

2:20pm Wednesday 10th February 2010

AS the years pass the ivy and lichen has spread, and parts of the churchyard like hundreds of others are being slowly reclaimed by nature.

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Burglars target Brambridge home

12:08pm Thursday 4th February 2010

BURGLARS smashed their way into a home near Winchester but fled after setting off an alarm.

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New national park could create problems

8:50am Friday 22nd January 2010

RESIDENTS in the new South Downs National Park could be left "confused" over who decides what they can build.

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The net is closing in on pensioner’s killer

11:06am Thursday 21st January 2010

IT is a small community which detectives believe holds the answer to the brutal murder of a grandmother.

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Funding flows from £2m pot

7:50am Sunday 10th January 2010

CASH is starting to flow from a £2m pot to help the rural economy in the Winchester and East Hampshire districts.

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Bid to save under-threat phone boxes

8:30am Thursday 7th January 2010

CIVIC chiefs plan to use their veto to save a swathe of phone boxes threatened with the axe.

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Water facility in £2m upgrade

2:30pm Wednesday 6th January 2010

DRINKING water from Twyford pumping station will now be even cleaner than before.

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Compton authority to meet

8:20am Thursday 31st December 2009

COMPTON and Shawford Parish Council will hold its next meeting on Tuesday (January 5).

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Festive walks arranged

11:30am Friday 25th December 2009

IT'S a time of year when many of us eat more than we should.

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