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  • High flyers downed by battling Andover

    Andover picked themselves up from two consecutive defeats to put together arguably their best team performance of the season to defeat high flying Bournemouth in a crucial game at London Road. Entering the business end of the season, Andover knew they

  • Sheppard's five not enough for struggling Collingbourne

    Collingbourne v Box CC. Collingbourne won the toss and chose to field first on a damp looking pitch. Box made a good start posting 43-0 from the first ten overs before spinner Billy Brett made the breakthrough and claimed 2-30 from his 12 overs.

  • Free market stall initiative is a big help

    I WOULD like to thank Test Valley Borough Council for taking the initiative of allowing charities free access to the Andover Farmers and Crafts Market. Charities can apply for a stall just once a year and The Boaz Project has just taken its turn

  • Democracy thrown out of the window

    HAVING attended several Test Valley Borough Council and committee meetings, it is clear that we, the residents of the Test Valley Borough Council area, are being dictated to by an undemocratic council. The council is controlled by a committee called

  • Put countryside before solar farms

    I WONDER if I may gently challenge your rather defeatist position on these vast solar panel sites? I am so pleased the Houghton Down site has been rejected, and thank you for bringing good news so clearly. I think that a whole rash of these

  • Cycleway is waste of money and will lead to conflicts

    I AM grateful for Andrew Wilson writing in last week (15/8) and for making a very sensible observation. Cllr Woodward and others at Hampshire County Council/Test Valley Borough Council are aware of this. In a nutshell, if one in four allegedly

  • Thanks for donations

    ON behalf of Andover VIPs (Visually Impaired People) we would like to thank all the people from Andover and Whitchurch who kindly donated items for the pop-up shop which we hired in July. A special thank you to Rotations Charity, which allowed

  • Could you help with uni study?

    HAVE you completed treatment for breast cancer in the last five years? Are you an Internet user? Have you ever used the Internet to look up complementary and alternative medicine treatment? The University of Southampton, as part of a student project

  • Juniper memories

    I READ in your paper of 1 August your report that young juniper trees had been found on downs in Stockbridge. I remember my mother said there were juniper trees in the Penton area — this was several years ago — probably the trees have disappeared

  • Fracking is not getting fair hearing

    PAUL Mayhew (Letters, 15 August) is again on the path of seeking to sustain and ‘prove’ a viewpoint based on statistics (selective part-statistics at that) and presumption based on anecdote rather than on science and fact. He is not able to mention

  • Do councillor's development aspirations sit with role?

    CONGRATULATIONS to the Planning Control of Test Valley Borough Council for rejecting the application to decimate the Test Valley with a solar farm. Over the past eight years Councillor Busk has made several attempts to make capital out of proposed

  • County council keen to support rural village services

    I AM pleased to hear that post office services are shortly to be resumed in Shipton Bellinger. We have taken a keen interest in their progress and offered guidance and support when needed. The county council places a high value on support for

  • Three cheers fro junior graduates

    READERS of a recent edition of the Andover Advertiser will have seen photos of pupils from Andover schools dressed in mortar boards and gowns to celebrate their junior graduation. Back in 2008 Test Valley Borough Council and the University of Winchester

  • Progress would have amazed the canal navvies

    I SOMETIMES wander on foot or on a bike between Andover and Stockbridge along the excellent 246 combined cycle route (Kintbury-Timsbury) which for much of the way replaces the old canal (then railway) route from Andover to Redbridge. I try to imagine

  • Lymphoedema support group

    THERE are at least 240,000 people in the UK who are affected by a condition which causes swelling of the limbs or body. I am one of them and am very pleased to tell your readers that the support group for the condition has started up again in Basingstoke

  • Back Through the Pages

    ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO — 23 AUGUST 1889 WHERWELL — SCHOOL TREAT Thursday the 15th was chosen by Mrs.Studdy on which to invite the scholars attending the Church of England Day and Sunday Schools to her residence at Leckford Down

  • Police appeal after indecent exposure near The Range

    ANDOVER Police are appealing for a woman to contact officers after an indecent exposure was reported in the town. A man was seen standing in a bush alongside the footpath underneath Northern Avenue near ‘The Range’ store on the Enham Arch retail

  • Free fun is a big hit

    NOT many activities in life are free but on Saturday afternoon Aster communities provided an exception when their community fun day proved a big hit with locals – especially those with plenty of zip. On offer was wrestling – provided you donned

  • Theatre Dates

    UP to 6 SEPTEMBER: Calamity Jane, at the Watermill Theatre, Newbury, at 7.30pm. Matinees on Thursdays and Saturdays at 2.30pm. 4 SEPTEMBER — 4 OCTOBER: Bedroom Farce by Alan Ayckbourn, at the Salisbury Playhouse, at 7.30pm. Matinees from 11 September

  • Diary Dates

    22 AUGUST: Battle of the Bands / Gig Night, in aid of The ARK Centre (cancer care charity), at The Southampton Arms, Winchester Road, Andover, from 6pm to 11pm. Tickets: 07825 889412. UP to 31 AUGUST: WW1 Exhibition commemorating parishioners who