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  • ‘Star Wars’ house shot down

    VILLAGERS have won their battle to stop a large futuristic detached house being built beside the River Itchen. Around 30 residents gathered at Twyford Parish Hall last week to cross swords with developers. The two sides had been scheduled to meet in

  • Pledge to continue fight against benefits cheats

    WINCHESTER civic chiefs are warning that their crackdown on benefit cheats will continue throughout this year. In 2006, the city council successfully prosecuted 11 people who committed fraud over council tax and housing benefits. Last year, £558,000

  • We train electric scooter riders, says boss

    WINCHESTER'S Shopmobility centre has leapt to the defence of electric scooter users, the majority of which, it says, use them responsibly. Its reassurance came after a 90-year-old man from Hampshire drove his privately owned scooter down the slip road

  • BID message will be going round

    BUSINESSES in Winchester are being sent CD ROMS telling them all about the benefits of the area becoming a Business Improvement District (BID). Winchester City Centre Partnership wants businesses to vote in favour of the BID, which for a small additional