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  • Former athletics coach jailed after "horrific reign of abuse"

    A FORMER Andover athletics coach who “manipulated, abused and violated” schoolgirls, one as young as 11 years old, has been jailed for seven-and-a-half years. Philip Banning, 68, pursued a “horrific reign of abuse” in Andover during the 1970s and

  • Police appeal after woman attacked and racially abused

    A WOMAN suffered injuries to her face after she was racially abused and assaulted in Andover on Friday night. The incident took place at around 11.45pm on Friday, August 9, at the junction of Picket Twenty and Levy Road. A 28-year-old woman

  • Back Through the Pages: Trains, autos and Sunday drinking

    ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO — 10 AUGUST 1894 CORRESPONDENCE — THE MIDLAND AND SOUTH-WESTERN JUNCTION RAILWAY Sir, —The present policy of this Company appears as though the manager reversed the proverb, and holds that a bird in the

  • New Street in FA Cup replay with Bemerton

    ANDOVER New Street will take on Bemerton Heath Harlequins in an FA Cup replay on Tuesday night (August 13) after the sides drew 3-3 on Saturday. Visiting New Street took the lead after 12 minutes as Luke Hooper, but Bemmy hit back to lead 2-1 with