CHRISTMAS may be a distant memory for most but for underprivileged orphans in South Africa their presents are finally on the way. Last December Hampshire schoolchildren helped collect almost 1,000 gifts for the youngsters but needed help raising the
WINCHESTER Cathedral is to revive a long tradition to mark the life of the last English king to be executed. The Rev Canon Michael St John-Channell has reintroduced a ceremony on the anniversary of the beheading of Charles I. On January 30 a scholar
IT is a clean hands policy which has become part of the daily routine in hospitals across the land. Now Brendoncare, the Hampshire based care for older people, has signed up to the National Patient Safety Agency's "cleanyourhands" campaign. It is one
ALRESFORD has been voted the best small market town in Hampshire. The survey, by the Daily Telegraph, revealed estate agents rated the settlement as one of the UK's top 50 country towns. Arundel, in West Sussex, was top. The newspaper said towns like
CRIMESTOPPERS was launched on January 1, 1988, in the wake of the Broadwater Farm riots that lead to the tragic death of PC Keith Blakelock at the hands of a mob on the streets of London. Prominent businessman Lord Ashcroft wanted to offer a large cash
GLOBAL history will be made next month when a team of street pastors step out from a Hampshire village church. They will be acting as "guardian angels" to the residents of Fair Oak and Horton Heath as they leave pubs, clubs and youth centres on Friday
CAMPAIGNERS claim residents of south Hampshire are being held to ransom by the promise of a multi-million pound upgrade of our over-stretched transport network. They say the proposed new traffic schemes - such as a Botley bypass, new bus services and
POLICE are hunting a Southampton schoolboy who groped a woman then indecently exposed himself to her. The 33-year-old woman got off a bus at Aldermoor Road, Lordshill, where she was followed off the number 10 bus by the schoolboy. The boy then touched
CONTOVERSIAL new parking charges and times will come into force across Southampton today. Tory council leaders dismissed objections from business leaders, motorists and residents to extend charging periods in the city centre and to introduce a £2 overnight
