THIS month’s film at South Wonston Village Hall will be “A Promise”, a romantic drama set in Germany just before the Great War, starring Rebecca Hall and Alan Rickman. It will be shown this Saturday at 2.30pm and 7.30pm. Tickets cost £5 in
MICHELDEVER Church of England Primary School is to hold its harvest festival at the village’s St Mary’s Church this Friday at 2.15pm. Parents and friends of the school are invited to join teachers and pupils for the service. Donations of garden
THE Annual General Meeting of the Gratton Trust will be held at the Gratton Pavilion, in Sutton Scotney on Thursday, October 2 at 7.30pm. The charity was set up in 1997 after the large swathe of green space on the edge of the village was donated
A WALK to raise money for the Ropley church that burned down will be held next weekend. The walk on Sunday, September 21, takes place between Ropley and Alresford to raise funds for St Peter’s that suffered severe damage in June. The Watercress
A WELL-KNOWN former Cheriton pub landlady has died, aged 95. A service of thanksgiving for Patricia Bartlett will be held at St Michael’s and All Angels church in Cheriton on Monday September 22 at noon. With husband John she took over the
MP Caroline Nokes joined the Scouts at the Romsey Show on Saturday to officially launch her role as an ambassador for Romsey Scouting. Ms Nokes has taken on the challenge of the Scout assault course at previous shows but this year chose to have
THE AGM of Alresford and District Neighbourhood Watch Association will be held on Thursday September 25. Local MP Steve Brine will be the guest speaker to the meeting at Alresford Golf Club, starting at 7.30pm.
A NEWLY formed residents group in Alresford has won £1,000 funding for their campaign. The Nursery Road Residents Group was formed earlier this year to fight proposals to build nearly 400 new homes off Sun Lane. The money will be used to erect
POLICE are dealing with reports of deer poaching in the Cheriton area. A deer was found severely injured with dog bites and its tail removed on farmland after it had been left for dead. It was so badly injured it had to be destroyed.
A HOUSE-builder is taking part in Macmillan’s World’s Biggest Coffee Morning fundraiser. David Wilson Homes will be hosting a fundraiser on September 27 at its Magnolia Walk development in Belbins near Romsey. The kettle will be put on at 10am
THE Hampshire Hunt will be holding an open day and family dog show on Sunday September 21. The ‘HH’ will open its gates at its base on Petersfield Road, Ropley, from 11am-3pm. Attractions include a mobile farm, pony rides, bouncy castle kennel
THIS was the moment a very happy snooker fan from Micheldever Station won a trophy at his local club. Lewis Aisthorpe-Buckley, six, claimed the Highest Placed Six-Year-Old award in the Eastleigh and District Under-13 league at a presentation day
WORKS are set to begin for a new Colden Common car park after residents raised concerns about the number of cars parked on the road. Local councillors raised issue with cars parked near the roundabout at Spring Lane and Upper Moors Road citing
A WINCHESTER mobile phone retailer has gone into administration. Phones 4U announced all 550 stores across the UK have been closed today including the High Street shop, located opposite River Island. The company has blamed its move on mobile
POLICE are appealing for information following a break-in at a communal car park in Bishop’s Waltham. The offenders reversed a vehicle into the car park, at Rolleston Flats in Winchester Road, and attempted to pull the garage door away from its
AN EVENING of songs, poetry, readings and sketches commemorating the outbreak of the First World War is returning to Swanmore after popular demand. Swanmore Amateur Dramatic Society will perform a modified version of Lest We Forget on October 25
IT'S the moment a dog show on the ground took second place to a dog fight in the skies. The confrontation in question involved a group of replica First World War planes that recreated one of the battles from the 1914-18 conflict. The dramatic
A FESTIVAL celebrating the best of chamber music is coming to Shedfield, Wickham and Bishop’s Waltham next month. The festival, Founded by Ulrikke Henninen and long-time Shedfield resident Edward Daniel, kicks off on October 25 with Grieg’s Andante
A BISHOP’S Waltham resident is compiling a history of soldiers from the town who died in the First World War. Alan Inder is researching the lives of soldiers named on Bishop’s Waltham War Memorial and the Roll of Honour in Bishop’s Waltham Museum
NOTHING could stop walkers and cyclists on their mission to raise money for Hampshire churches. Saturday (SEP 13) saw the return of the annual Ride and Stride event, which challenges people to walk, run, cycle or drive around their local areas,
The Lantern Parade at Romsey’s Late Night Shopping evening has now become a popular annual event and this year’s will have a theme for the first time – pantomimes. Last year’s parade comprised a colourful array of around 350 lanterns, accompanied
COMMUTERS can now access the internet for free on board some of the county’s busiest rail routes. South West Trains free WiFi service goes live today (Monday) on the main line route from London Waterloo to Weymouth and Portsmouth. The lack
