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  • Statues worth thousands of pounds stolen from front garden

    A PAIR of statues were stolen from the front garden of a house near Andover last week, and police are appealing for more information. The two bronze statues of hares, worth between £3,000 and £4,000, were taken from a property in Church Lane, Goodworth

  • Headteacher praised by Ofsted inspector in latest report

    A PRIMARY school has been told it is “rapidly improving” after being graded as ‘good’ by Ofsted. Shipton Bellinger Primary School, in Parkhouse Road, was given the rating following an inspection on June 4 and 5, having previously been graded as

  • Community centre's new boss announces big ambitions

    A NEW manager has taken the helm at Picket Twenty Community Centre, and he has big ambitions to put the hall “on the map” for the whole of Andover. Alan Nunn has joined the community hub following time spent as a trustee and ultimately wants as

  • Councillor walks out of meeting after just one minute

    A DEPLETED planning committee was made even more so on Monday when one councillor walked out in the first minute. Councillor Christopher Ecclestone left during item one on the agenda as apologies from other absentees were read out. Before leaving

  • Bomb survivor shares memories of 'doodlebug' landing in 1944

    LAST weekend marked 75 years since a V-1 bomb landed in Goodworth Clatford and killed six people – including a family of three who had only arrived in the village that day after surviving attacks by the same weapon in London. On July 14, 1944,