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Daisy-Mae twins brace of Cressroads' candidates for Westminster

Posted on 4:03pm Tuesday 16th March 2010

Winchester and Meon Valley candidates for Westminster - one Tory, other Libdem - offer two for the price of one as seat splits in two for upcoming General Election

Sam Blakey »

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Apps, jelly babies and doing a Ben Johnson!

Posted on 4:36pm Monday 15th March 2010

So much more than just a pair of good trainers... the things you need nowadays for that perfect long run.

Mike Irving »

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Ministry of Work deals fresh hand up back-to-work ladder for Alresford's one among millions

Posted on 1:05pm Friday 12th March 2010

Is someone likely to want to imagine Sam-not-enough owes his sporting chance of beginning his working life afresh to Whitehall's suddenly inspired Brigade of Brownshirts - or practically to advise him to lay hands on everything on offer for as long as it remains up for grabs?

Mike Irving »

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Meet! Greet! Cressroads' L-Nibs seeks to overcome his six months on the dole

Posted on 1:22am Thursday 11th March 2010

Alresford's town hack finds urgent cause to inflict his Continuing Story of Cressroads on City Road's job centre

Mike Irving »

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Firkin Henry Sups 72 pints each week saving others from drink

Posted on 11:25am Tuesday 9th March 2010

“Keeps m'arm in with m'old cows for three hours of a Saturday, I does” - but the otherwise retired stockman on Cressroads’ Grange Farm is kept busy having his pint pot recharged 72 times-a-week to milk a Bridport brewery and divert hundreds of pounds of its profits to the Royal National Lifeboat Institute.

Steve Cross »

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Shake Dat Tin' (Somewhere Else)

Posted on 5:10pm Monday 8th March 2010

Steve spends an afternoon collecting for charity in Winchester city centre

Mike Irving »

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Co-op has deadly plan to bring listed Alresford Post Office back to life

Posted on 2:31pm Monday 8th March 2010

Penny Black! As Cressroads’ Post Office moves down West Street to a far corner of ‘The Coop’ supermarket in town, a macabre possibility threatens change of use for the vacated listed building on West Street.

Mike Irving »

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Continuing Story of Cressroads knows no bounds

Posted on 11:51pm Saturday 6th March 2010

A glimpse of a half-dozen Alresford souls alive as well as dead are resurrected to return to cyber space on the Ides of March as the town's three pharmacies wail: "We need no reminding."

Sam Blakey »

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Less about finish time, more about the legs!

Posted on 1:18pm Thursday 4th March 2010

Running long distances is hard but there's something that just keeps me going...

Mike Irving »

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Alresford Co-op Has More Secrets In Store

Posted on 9:21am Wednesday 3rd March 2010

Cryptic clue is 'Penny Black' as main Post Office closes in Cressroads

Mike Irving »

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Story of Cressroads Returns to Cyber Space

Posted on 10:55am Tuesday 2nd March 2010

Ides of March see return of Alresford's Continuing Story of Cressroads, after pilot blog's 21,000 words spark popular BBC film.

Sam Blakey »

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Running out of room...

Posted on 12:39pm Thursday 25th February 2010

OK, I have a pet hate – it’s motorists who think they own the road and only they have a right to use them. Yes I know they pay their road tax but then so do I. I don’t, however, always have the car with me when I am hitting the roads.

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