ANDOVER Specsavers will be hosting a week of fundraising starting on Monday, 23 June, and will be donating £1 from every eye test to Blind Veterans UK. Grahame Smith, Specsavers Andover store director, said: “Blind Veterans UK is a fantastic charity
LONGSTOCK Park Water Gardens will open its gates on Sunday, 20 July. The garden, which forms part of the Leckford Estate and is owned by the John Lewis Partnership, is only open for a limited period each year. The afternoon, from 2pm to 5pm
PLANS to build a glazed extension with a lean-to lantern roof at an historic property in Nether Wallop have been rejected by planners at Test Valley Borough Council. The planners say that the proposals for the property, Hatchetts Barn in Farley
FOOD producers from The Leckford Estate and Laverstoke Farm Park helped Hampshire wow Westminster at a special Hampshire Day held in the Houses of Parliament earlier this month. As reported in MP Caroline Nokes’ column in last week’s Andover Advertiser
TO commemorate the First World War, Tidworth Garrison will hold a series of military history lectures. They will take place at the Garrison Theatre on Wednesday, 9 July, and cover ‘1914, the Opening Shots’. There will be five lectures during
ANDOVER Community Theatre is staging an open air production of Twelfth Night in the grounds of the Hawk Conservancy Trust tonight. All proceeds will go to fund its work protecting vulnerable species of birds. Tickets cost £20 for adults and
PLANNERS have refused permission to remove three beech trees at Beech View in Over Wallop They said the trees are in fair condition and had no pests. The nearby house in Pound Row had only been built in the last two years and was named after the
A RARE opportunity was afforded at the weekend to visit two very different gardens not normally open to the public. The gardens, both of which contain many interesting plants, were opened to help raise funds for the British Red Cross. Tufton
SOUTHERN Water is replacing three-quarters of a mile of ageing Victorian water main in Chilbolton with a more durable plastic pipe. The old cast iron pipe has served the community for more than 100 years but has suffered a number of bursts in recent
