SIR - The plan by Cllr Margaret Snaith to cut £250,000 from the book budget of Hampshire libraries (Chronicle, November 23) is disgraceful. It is precisely because Hampshire has cut its book budget in the past (by a cool £500,000 in the last two years
SIR - Is the Winchester City planning development control committee concerned about the opinions of its council tax paying citizens? If not, it certainly should be as, due to their recent actions in refusing the recent application to demolish the Grade
SIR - Thank you Phil Yates for drawing attention in the Chronicle (November 16) that the Hockley Viaduct should be preserved and put to a useful purpose. I find it difficult to understand the policy of English Heritage with regard to which building structures
SIR - Can someone please tell us what the Cathedral authorities think they are up to? Due to the chaffer beetle infestation during the summer, they have spent goodness knows how much money on lifting the turf and reseeding (very badly too, as the density
A BRAVE Winchester soldier and a colleague killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq, were described this week as "courageous and professional". Captain Richard Holmes, 28, an ex-St Peter's and Kings' School pupil, and Private Lee Ellis, aged 23, were praised
CHRISTMAS babies are set to be the last ones born at Romsey Hospital. The last lingering hopes of keeping the birthing centre finally vanished on Tuesday when Hampshire County Council's health overview and scrutiny committee (OSCOM) endorsed the decision
A CAR driver has died in a horrific three-vehicle crash at Landford. His black car was travelling south on the A36 towards Plaitford when Wednesday afternoon's accident happened near the junction of North Common Lane. A Ford Transit van and Renault
DETECTIVES are investigating an assault on a 20-year-old man in a Nursling pub lavatory. Officers say the victim suffered superficial injuries to his face in Saturday evening's incident at the Horns Inn. He was in a locked cubicle, when his attacker
A NORTH Baddesley teenager was arrested on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life following a fire at a block of flats in the village. The 13-year-old has been released on bail by police officers investing the blaze at St George's Court on Wednesday
HAMPSHIRE'S deputy leader helped clear flooded roads in the Stockbridge area during Sunday's torrential rainstorms. Mike Woodhall, who represents the county's Test Valley Central division, donned his wellies and armed himself with a shovel to unblock
A ROMSEY headteacher has encouraged pupils to grow oak trees to mark the opening of their new primary school. Romsey Primary School - launched in September following the merger of Romsey Infants and Romsey Junior - staged a special assembly on Wednesday
SAUSAGES with a Christmas flavour took first prize in a schools recipe competition. The Dairy Barn Farm Shop at North Houghton, near Stockbridge, ran a contest in which schools from the surrounding area were asked to invent a banger recipe. The different
PLANS are well under way for Rownhams St John's Primary School's 150th anniversary. There will be an exhibition from December 4 to 12 illustrating the school's history and performances of a play depicting life at the school through the years on Tuesday
A MOBILE roadshow aimed at steering children away from drugs and drink will be touring seven Romsey area schools next week. Life Education Centres (Hampshire) Trust was formed in 2003 and offers schoolchildren aged four to eleven information about making
NEW Forest National Park bosses confirmed this week that they were considering prosecuting a landowner over tipping and earthmoving operations in a field at Copythorne. As previously reported in The Romsey Advertiser, both the Park Authority and the
WINCHESTER'S Tourist Information Centre has been voted the best in the UK after a "mystery shopper" campaign by national body VisitBritain. Staff from the group send in e-mail and telephone requests to all 474 tourist information centres across Britain
