FIGURES showing that more than 3,500 people in her Romsey constituency use the Post Office card account in order to receive pensions or benefits have sparked an attack on the government by the town's MP Sandra Gidley. The card account system is set to
IN 2001, James Suddaby, who cut his teeth DJ-ing at Hampshire clubs, started the I Like Music website. Last week, as it prepared to celebrate its fifth birthday, he was rubbing shoulders with some of the industry's big names. The occasion was the BT
A SENIOR Winchester City Council member has quit his cabinet post in dissatisfaction over "sloppy procedures". Cllr Barry Lipscomb lambasted the authority's working culture as "inefficient" and "unacceptable". His comments were rejected swiftly
Winchester hospital letters are being typed up in India. The Royal Hampshire County Hospital has started a one-month trial in the ear, nose and throat department. Letters and doctors' notes are dictated digitally, sent to India, typed up and returned
WINCHESTER dog owners are vowing to stage a weekly protest walk in their campaign against the clampdown at a beauty spot. Hampshire Wildlife Trust has banned dogs at St Catherine's Hill nature reserve unless they are on a short lead. The trust says
THE new managing director of Roke Manor Research, Romsey's biggest private employer, is certainly a "local boy made good". David Smith, 43, was born at Romsey Hospital and went to Romsey School. He returned to the area six years ago, when he joined
