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  • Michael Mates could face prosecution over alleged fraud

    MICHAEL Mates, the Conservative candidate at the elections for Hampshire Police Commissioner last autumn, is facing the prospect of being prosecuted for electoral fraud. The police have sent a file to the Crown Prosecution Service following a six-month

  • Meon Valley MP hosts charity duck race and fun day

    A HAMPSHIRE MP handed over his garden on Sunday (June 16) to a bunch of pigs to make money out of ducks. To explain, George Hollingbery was happy to lend his lawns to the Alresford Pigs Association to organise the bi-annual charity race where scores

  • Winchester gets new niche estate agent

    A NEW niche estate agent has been launched in Winchester. Positioning itself at the premium end of the property market, Chewton Rose, based in Southgate Street, will focus on 'British character properties' at the higher end of the market across

  • Hundreds have fun at Winchester school fete

    THE odd downpour didn’t dampen the spirits of the 400 people who joined in the fun at the St Peter’s School Summer Fete in Winchester on Saturday. Parents, children, staff and the local community poured through the school gates to enjoy dance and

  • JMW Turner print could return to Winchester

    HE called it a “once in a lifetime” discovery. And Winchester City Mill employee Ric Weeks simply couldn’t believe it when he stumbled upon the small watercolour. Depicting the mill, it is by one of Britain’s best-loved and well known artists, JMW Turner

  • Rain can't dampen the fun at Winchester preschool sports day

    THE rain may have forced things indoors but it didn’t dampen the fun at a pre-school sports day on Saturday. Some 25 children by the Littleton Preschool scampered around inside Sparsholt Memorial Hall near Winchester when the weather got too wet

  • Three workers injured in M3 crash

    THREE road workers were injured in a collision on the M3 yesterday. (MON) Police are appealing for information after the motorway maintenance workers were hurt when a lorry collided with two small vans and a flat bed lorry. It happened at about 3.10pm