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  • The Black Rat - tenth best restaurant in the UK

    HAMPSHIRE restaurant The Black Rat has been hailed as among the top 50 in the UK. OpenTable, the restaurant booking service, has placed the Winchester Michelin-starred restaurant at number 10 in the Fit for Foodies review category. The restaurant

  • Professor wins £2.5m payout after uni missed tribunal

    SOUTHAMPTON University has ordered an urgent investigation after it was ordered to pay £2.5 million to one of its professors – because it failed to turn up to a tribunal. Economist Richard Werner, from Winchester, was awarded the payout last week

  • Local historians become ambassadors for archives

    MEMBERS of local interest groups have been seeking expert advice in a meeting with archivists from the Hampshire Record Office in Winchester. Participants included village historians from both Ropley, near Alresford, and Broughton, near Stockbridge

  • International design victory for Hampshire firm

    A HAMPSHIRE-based company has won an international competition to design The Wall of Answered Prayer – a structure that will equal the size of 62 semi-detached houses. Snug Architects, formerly based in Winchester and now in Totton, was selected

  • Home plan for ‘waste land’ rejected in vote

    PLANS to build a home on land in West Meon have been thrown out by councillors despite attracting support from nearby residents. The proposal would have seen the four-bedroom home built on land between Alton Road and Marlands Lane, but breached

  • Former care home sold

    A WINCHESTER charity has sold its former care home, Devenish House, for an undisclosed sum. The home closed in late 2016 and St John’s Winchester has completed the sale to Landmark Estate Limited. The site includes two Grade II listed buildings