IT'S 120 years since Britain first tasted a loaf of Hovis and this month the company will be celebrating with £1 million worth of activities.

These will include the return of the 'boy on the bike' television advert - filmed by Ridley Scott before he was famous in the Dorset town of Shaftesbury.

And here in Andover, of course, there is the Rank Hovis McDougall mill keeping up the tradition.

For the full story see Friday's Andover Advertiser