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  • Team triumph for young footballers at area finals

    SCORING success was the name of the game for John Hanson’s sportsmen as they triumphed in a feast of football. The school’s Year 7 five-a-side team represented Andover, Eastleigh and Winchester district at the Southern Area finals on January 31.

  • New ice cream parlour whipping up a treat for town

    THE temperatures may be low but that has not stopped business owners whipping up some love for ice cream in Andover. Brian Chant and Dawn Tapp will officially open the doors to their new ice cream parlour, Twenty5, on Monday, with a vision to provide

  • Grant for drone enthusiast who turned hobby into business

    A NEW drone business based in Andover is flying high after it received a grant boost to help bolster its offerings. Forton man Garry Stevens launched AAA Tech Drone Solutions following a career in technology, combining his life-long passions for

  • Back Through the Pages: Marching, parking and shoplifting

    ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO — 16 FEBRUARY 1894 BROUGHTON — VOLUNTEER MARCH OUT On Thursday evening a strong muster of volunteers from Stockbridge, under the command of Captain Hewitt, and accompanied by the fife and drum band attached

  • Minister and local MP hosts debate to discuss housing issues

    MORE than 100 people spent an evening debating a range of issues on housing policy. Held at St Mary’s Bourne Village Centre the debate was chaired by North West Hampshire MP and housing minister Kit Malthouse on Friday last week. Mr Malthouse

  • High praise for primary school named among the best in country

    STAFF and pupils are celebrating a ‘magnificent achievement’ to be named in the top one per cent of primary schools in England. The secretary of state for education and the minister of state for school standards have penned a letter to the headteacher