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Double helping of new restaurants
1:24pm Wednesday 17th March 2010
TWO more restaurants are planned for Romsey.
NPA U-turn saves The Edge
1:25pm Wednesday 17th March 2010
Paultons Park at Ower has been given permission to continue operating a popular ride that was built without planning permission.
MP opens school’s new play trail
5:53pm Tuesday 16th March 2010
ROMSEY’S MP Sandra Gidley officially opened a £10,500 play trail at Romsey Primary School and had a go on some of the new equipment.
New switching gear will keep the lights on
4:35pm Monday 15th March 2010
HIGH-tech equipment costing £11,500 has just been installed at two electricity substations in a bid to reduce powercuts at Wellow.
Sponsored Swim for Action for Children
4:33pm Monday 15th March 2010
The Romsey Support Group of the Action for Children charity held their 24th Sponsored Swim at the Rapids of Romsey on Saturday.
Green gap lobby wins round one
3:17pm Friday 12th March 2010
Nursling residents have won the first round of their fight to stop 350 homes being build on a greenfield site in the village.
Town’s really got a handle on plastic bag-free shopping
3:18pm Friday 12th March 2010
WHEN it comes to being environmentally friendly, Romsey’s shoppers have it in the bag.
MP puts pay rise question to public
3:15pm Friday 12th March 2010
ROMSEY’S MP is refusing to take a pay hike.
Sandra wins assisted-suicide debate
3:20pm Friday 12th March 2010
MAKING it legal to help the terminally-sick to take their own lives should be allowed, a packed meeting in Winchester decided.
Jonathan to be new vicar of St Peters
3:19pm Friday 12th March 2010
Stockbridge Benefice has announced that its new priest-in-charge will be the Rev Jonathan Watkins.
Chance to quiz candidates
4:19pm Wednesday 10th March 2010
ROMSEY is to host its own version of the BBC’s Question Time and the town’s chamber of commerce is behind the event.
Join the county sparrow count
4:13pm Wednesday 10th March 2010
A MAJOR survey of Hampshire house sparrow population begins next Monday.
Police dogs brought in to sniff out deer hunter
4:36pm Monday 8th March 2010
POLICE tracker dogs have been drafted in to hunt down a mystery gunman shooting deer on a Wiltshire estate.
Florence day at TIC
4:35pm Monday 8th March 2010
Romsey Tourist Information Centre is holding an open day with a Florence Nightingale theme.
Green gap war waged in cyberspace
2:32pm Friday 5th March 2010
RIVALS are battling it out with websites in a row over controversial plans to build 350 homes near protected woodland at Nursling.
Railway talk given a return ticket after crowds turned away
2:35pm Friday 5th March 2010
AN illustrated talk on railways was so popular that some people had to be turned away.
Feast for Florence fans
2:34pm Friday 5th March 2010
A SERIES of events to mark the centenary of Florence Nightingale’s death is being held in and around Romsey this month.
Podge such a muscular presence in the town
2:36pm Friday 5th March 2010
ROMSEY has lost one of its most famous strongmen in Roger “Podge” Gunner, who died, aged 83, on February 18.
Pre-school rocked by second arson attack
9:46am Wednesday 3rd March 2010
ARSONISTS have targeted a Romsey-based pre-school for the second time in three years.
Rotary pedal their message
4:45pm Tuesday 2nd March 2010
Bicycles, old and new, but all destined for medics in Uganda toured Romsey’s steets on a wet and cold Saturday morning.
Wednesday will be C-Day
4:43pm Tuesday 2nd March 2010
Lockerley branch of the charity Feed the Children has launched a new project, which it hopes will benfit the local community as well as raising funds for starving youngsters in the third world.
Nursling head takes charge at troubled Abbey School
12:52pm Monday 1st March 2010
Romsey Abbey Primary School’s interim headteacher says work is already well under way to restore the school’s reputation after a damaging Ofsted report.
MP praises new EA building’s green example
12:54pm Monday 1st March 2010
ROMSEY’S MP has officially opened the Environment Agency’s new £1.8million eco-friendly offices in the town.
County tax bill to rise by £20 for Band D homes
12:55pm Monday 1st March 2010
COUNTY councillors have rubber-stamped a 1.9 per cent rise in council tax while freezing their own pay.
Star rating for brave boy who battled bone cancer
12:49pm Monday 1st March 2010
WHEN Hampshire schoolboy, Louie Rose, broke his toe jumping over a bollard, he thought he would soon be back playing his beloved rugby.
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