A DISABLED grandfather, who claimed he was wrongfully stripped of benefits for a “vital” Motability car, has won his nine-month battle to get the payments reinstated.

Bob Bavister, of Artists Way, was told by a tribunal that the Department of Work and Pensions would be forced to reinstate his enhanced Personal Independence Payment (PIP) – just hours before he was due to attend a hearing in Southampton.

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- Andover Foodbank 10k Lake RUn to be opened by inspirational firefighter

- Driver jailed after causing death of beloved teen

- Leisure provider's £18m investment package plans

- Business women support group celebrates 25 years

- Andover War Memorial Hospital to receive new high-tech blood machine

- Test Valley village named 'one of the charming places in Britain'

- A page on local schools and college news

- News from Whitchurch and Overton and Tidworth and Ludgershall

- A double page of YOUR letters

- Three pages of sport

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