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  • Fizz Fest to be held in vineyard near Andover this summer

    A POPULAR summer wine-tasting event is back in Test Valley for 2022. The annual Vineyards of Hampshire (VoH) Fizz Fest is now in its eighth year, and is this year to be hosted by Black Chalk Vineyard near Andover on the afternoon of Sunday, July

  • Firefighters tackle blaze at derelict Andover building

    Fire crews from Andover and Whitchurch were called to a blaze at a derelict building in Andover yesterday afternoon (Saturday, January 22). Firefighters extinguished a fire on the ground floor of a two-storey derelict building in Shepherds Spring

  • Funeral of 'much-loved' Tesco employee to be held this week

    THE funeral of a much-loved Tesco employee from Andover who was tragically killed while at work is to be held this week. John Carroll, who worked at the River Way store for 17 years, was assaulted while on shift on July 29 2021. The 62-year-old

  • LETTERS: Here's what YOU had to say this week

    London Street tunnels Dear Editor, I was very interested to read in your paper about the underground tunnels in Andover. I lived at 16 London Street for many years, next to Pearman the blacksmith. We had a brick tunnel entrance in the cellar

  • HISTORY: Story of Angel Yard and Sidney Rolls

    Structurally, there is not much difference in this postcard by Weaver and Co, taken about 1910, and the same view today. Down in the Angel Yard were the premises of Harry Page, the monumental mason, whose family business was based there from the