YOBS punctured tyres on 48 vehicles in Roman Way and Pilgrims Way on Tuesday night. Although the incident in Pilgrims Way appeared to be remote from the other incidents, police are not ruling out a connection. The tyre sidewalls were damaged by a sharp
ANDOVER free range pig farmer Martin Martindale of Greenfield Pork Products has been awarded Supreme Champion of The 2010 Great Hampshire, Sausage, Pie & Ready Meal Competition for his pork, goat’s cheese and watercress sausage. Greenfield Pork Products
MEMBERS of Hampshire County Council have voted to freeze all their allowances – and some could opt not to claim their generous mileage allowance. The basic allowance will stay at £12,003 and the mileage claims allowed up to 53.8p a miles – though many
ANDOVER College is celebrating being ranked the third best in the area in terms of its students’ progress. The college, which incorporates Sparsholt College Hampshire and offers key stage five qualifications, is thrilled with its achievement in the contextual
A DISTINGUISHED group of parliamentarians and would-be parliamentarians dropped into Thruxton Circuit to visit the home of the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance. The charity-funded air ambulance has flown on more than 2,000 mercy missions since
Nothing stays the same and although not all change is for the better, especially nowadays, there are some things we just have to get on with. Until, of course, the opportunity ever arises when we are able to make a difference and either change it back
I AM writing this letter because more people need to know about the FSC, what they do and why it is important. The FSC stands for Forestry Stewardship Council. The FSC helps keep forests well managed. They do this by replanting trees when they are cut
I appreciate the publication of this letter to older people living particularly in western Andover and around the Salisbury Road area. It is here that 52 flats are being built within an extra care housing complex which will include communal facilities
A WIDE ranging search for a missing person took place on Salisbury Plain yesterday morning. The police helicopter was called into search an area of the plain near to Tidworth at 10.35am. The aircraft successfully located the individual and then returned
ON behalf of the Andover Carnival Committee I would like to say a big thank you to all the businesses in Andover that within one week didn’t give a second thought to donating raffle prizes for the launch of the 2010 Andover Carnival, with the money raised
SOME of your readers may be familiar with the song or hymn which begins ‘We are one in the Spirit . . .’ and which includes the refrain, ‘They’ll know we are Christians by our love’. Several years ago, I composed an alternative musical setting
THANK you very much for your article on the Meals on Wheels service we provided during the recent bad weather. I was lucky enough to have the team from the Andover Advertiser in the car I was in. I would just like to say that without the people with
I am talking about what was probably the best bus station in the south. It was large with a waiting room and a very good café, rooms for the staff and garages at the rear for bus repairs. It ran along the side of the river and was well
ON a recent trip to the National Railway Museum in York, I was able to recount the occasions when the circus elephants were brought into Andover railway station by train, and walked to the circus ground. If anyone has any pictures of the elephants alighting
AS a disabled person with my carer husband not able to walk far find the disabled parking bays essential. If you have to push a person in a wheelchair you need to get as close as possible to your objective. Pushing a wheelchair is quite a task and
I THINK I'm beginning to see the light, with all good things being removed from around the Guildhall, allowing it to become a commercial proposition. First,the Cenotaph had to go in the ’50s, then the two Jubilee benches,and now the disabled parking
A NEW committee has been formed to administer the running of the Memorial Hall in Ludgershall, but there are a few vacancies still to be filled. If anyone has the interest and time to help in any way, we shall be pleased to hear from you. The Friday
I WOULD like to thank everyone for coming to David’s 70th birthday celebration. We raised £164.78 for Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance in lieu of presents. Special thanks to Eileen for her excellent raffle. Mrs Joy Smith, Stevens Green, St
I LIVE in Essex and am researching my family tree on my grandfather’s side. I would like to know if there are any descendants, in the Andover area, of the Baker family who lived in Vigo Road, Andover, during the 1920s and 1930s. I believe there were
I WOULD be grateful if you would allow me to say a few thank yous for the help we received for our arranged fundraising collections at Sainsbury’s (Bridge Street), Tesco, River Way and at Asda. The collections were £59 at Sainsbury’s, £205 at Tesco
MAY I express our sincere thanks to a couple who came to my wife’s aid on Thursday 14 January 2010 in the multi-storey car park, when she cut her leg badly on my wheelchair. They assisted us by helping us to Shopmobility to get first aid, and they
AFTER negotiations lasting more than three years Italian-style restaurant company Prezzo has dropped plans to open a restaurant in Andover’s historic Guildhall. Instead, members of Test Valley Borough Council heard that a little-known fledgling company
