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Editor's Comment
Life can be a weighty burden, and for a good many of us that weight tends to settle around the midriff. We all know it’s not good for us yet the western world is waddling towards an obesity crisis that will cost countless lives and add billions to
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Youth Band to play with top brass
ONE of the world’s top 50 brass bands is performing at John Hanson Community School on 31 January alongside Test Valley Brass Youth Band. South West Trains Woodfalls band, based near Salisbury, is in the brass band equivalent of the Champions’ League
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Memories of dear old Woolies - RIP
THE early 1950s saw the school bus drop me off outside the Milk Bar adjacent to the Guildhall and with two pennies burning a hole in my pocket, this little short trousered urchin would scamper across the flinted Guildhall forecourt. Beckoning me, was
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Abolition of prescription charges for cancer patients
AFTER three years of campaigning we are delighted the Government has listened to us and abolished prescription charges for cancer patients from April 2009. This was absolutely the right thing to do as cancer not only threatens your life, but can also
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Fishing quota changes are a serious threat to all anglers
THE proposal by the European Union to allow member state Governments to set their own fishing quotas for each protected species has noble ambitions, but as ever the devil is in the detail. Under new plans, Britain's 1.4 million sea anglers could be
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Buy now, pay later policy damaging our economy
WHEN Labour ministers gave away £7 billion of Britain's EU rebate in 2005 they said it was a necessary price to pay for a commitment to reform the Common Agricultural Policy in 2008. However, anybody who followed the CAP reform debate last year will know
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Wildlife getting a better deal than humans
IT is good to see ‘Water clean-up with wildlife in mind’ but rather curious that it is suggested while the decision about whether humans should have a class two poison, hexfluorosilic acid, added to their water supplies is being made. Should we remind
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Use of this funding was fair and positive
COUNCILLOR Dowden makes a claim that my funding of two ACSOs in Totton is political. The silence of his two Liberal Democrat colleagues who represent Totton, whereas he does not, is absolute. As the originator of the Accredited Community Safety Officers
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Offering young people their important second chance
AS the festive fun becomes a memory and a less than prosperous 2009 looms ahead, suddenly the January blues seem bleaker than normal. But for a significant core of youngsters, the prospect of a happy New Year seems even more elusive than ever. A Prince
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Problem will soon disappear
IN his letter (16 January) Mr Wildish expresses concern regarding the eyesore and the ‘faggies’ outside the Andover Magistrate’s court. I understand from one of the ‘faggies’ that this problem will soon disappear, as the courthouse is due for closure
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Prices fuelling more discontent
NORTH, East, South and West . . . Newbury, Basingstoke, Winchester and Salisbury . . . . wherever you check, it's the same story. Andover's motorists continue to receive poor treatment! With the recent reduction in fuel prices, attention from the
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Town centre sealed off after High Street bomb alert
PART of Andover town centre was sealed off for two hours on Wednesday evening following a report of a suspicious package at Barclays Bank. Police had to to clear the surrounding area of the High Street after the call was made at 5.40pm. The emergency
