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Diocese of Winchester responds to students' protests over proposed chaplaincy cuts

Church Times Blog (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009

The Diocese of Winchester has issued a statement on the story I posted yesterday, Diocese of Winchester proposes cutting university chaplains : From the Diocese of Winchester The strong reaction by Southampton University Students to the possible loss of their much appreciated Chaplain, the Rev Simon Stevens, is heart-warming but may be misplaced. It is certainly ‘jumping the gun'. Various blog...

Hot Coals

Estate Agents In Fareham Hampshire (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009

More local news and events from the Hampshire area from Dibben and Dibben as a Hampshire charity that helps care for older people is celebrating after raising £1,800 through a daredevil firewalk. Nine brave fundraisers, braved the hot coals in aid of Winchester based Brendoncare, which runs ten care centres and nursing homes, as well as 70 social clubs across Hampshire. Fundraising manager Emma...

Storming of Basing House

Wars of Louis Quatorze (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009

Seeing the video of Winchester's drummers made me think of Basing House in Hampshire England, a place I've spent many happy hours reenacting and visiting. This is ironic in a way as it is a place of a tragedy, where the English Civil War took on some of the dark apocalyptic aspects of the Thirty Years War. Here when the House was stormed after a long and varied siege that reads a little like a Hollywood...

Letters: Scottish ire

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009

The chairman of the Parole Board rightly states that the justice secretary should play no part in deciding whether terminally ill prisoners should be released on compassionate grounds ( Report , 18 November). Politicians are not involved in individual sentencing decisions and there should be no suggestion that political considerations might have influenced the release date of someone serving an indeterminate...

No global warming at Norfolk showground for...

Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009

No global warming at Norfolk showground for livestock farmers Although a big space heater was at work, almost deafening the speaker at times, it managed to lift the temperature to just above 10C. Then, as the temperature fell through the 40-minute presentation, the heater automatically came back on - several times. And the topic under discussion - climate change and global warming! Major climate change...

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Veronica Frydel - Journalism - Photojournalism (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

Winchester News Online week 2, Dummy edition 2 Despite the fact that it was only our second attempt to produce the News bulletin, the news room felt like a tense workplace with the strictest deadlines in the world. This time our team of reporters produced higher verity of Video News packages which was an incredible achievement. The atmosphere felt tense but professional, editors had everything under...

Winchester Lights

Estate Agents In Fareham Hampshire (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009

More local news from in and around the Hampshire area from Dibben and Dibben as Winchesr is set for much better Christmas lights, the Council was told. The 2008 display was beset by technical problems from the contractor working for the Winchester Business Improvement District. This year BID is using the same contractor as the council and illuminating more streets, including St George’s Street,...

The White Horse, Ampfield, Hampshire

Basingstoke and North Hampshire Pub a day (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009

The White Horse, Ampfield, Hampshire , originally uploaded by Mike Cattell . The White Horse is situated on a slight bend in the main road that runs between Romsey and Winchester. It benefits from having a large garden that overlooks the downs and meadows of Hampshire and is next to both the village cricket ground, the recreation area and an 18 hole par 3 golf course. Ampfield is set in beautiful countryside...

Winchester Aliens

David Burbage's Weblog (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009

How could I have missed this? This Hampshire LibDem councillor tells all about the curious organisation called ”Majestic”. And I thought they were wine merchants …. http://www.thisishampshire.net/news/4722857.Councillor_demands_to_hear_truth_over_aliens/ http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/district/winchester/4232255.A_close_encounter_with_an_alien_in_Winchester/

Christmas Concert

Estate Agents In Fareham Hampshire (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009

More local news and events from in and around the Hampshire area from Dibben and Dibben as the Waynflete Singers open their 40th anniversary season in Winchester Cathedral with a Christmas fanfare conducted Andrew Lumsden. The choir’s 120 voices will be joined by Fine Arts Brass, which has toured more than 60 countries and performed at many UK festivals. The choir will open with seasonal works...

Turkeys Found

Estate Agents In Fareham Hampshire (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009

More local news from in and around the Hampshire area from Dibben and Dibben as 7 rare show turkeys stolen from a farm in Hampshire have been found alive on a bridle way in Owslebury. Two Lavender turkeys and five Croellwitzer turkeys were taken from their sheds in Twyford, near Winchester, on 7 November. Their owner feared the birds, which are bred for showing and not for meat, had been stolen for...

One very Proud Mummy……

LiveLaughLove (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009

Please excuse me whilst I indulge myself in saying How Proud I am of my boy, Jonathan Roy Gillingham. (seen here with his sister a couple of years back) He graduated on Friday 13th November 2009 in Bristol Cathedral. He now has a BA (Hons) in Film Studies and Media and Cultural Studies. He left home, here in Winchester, Hampshire to move to Bristol to attend the UWE . What a wonderful Uni this is if...

Great Great Great Grandpa Worzel's famous cousin...

The complete works of TGR Worzel (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009

Hampshire County Council is running a family history competition at the moment. I've just submitted an entry, reproduced here just in case anybody in the blogosphere is vaguely interested in History or Genealogy. If it inspires anybody else to enter, that would be fabulous. This is not really about the winning the competition, its more about writing it down... ...and thanks to my Sister for the bits...

South Downs signed into history as England's ninth national park

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009

Campaigners welcome added protection for 'green lung of south-east from Beachy Head in East Sussex to Winchester A new national park in the South Downs was officially confirmed today, more than 60 years after the area was first earmarked for protected status . The environment secretary, Hilary Benn, signed the order to create the 632 square mile national park, stretching from Beachy Head in East Sussex...

• South Downs Named As England’s Ninth National Park - Net News Publisher
• South Downs becomes National Park - The Telegraph

Lib Dems call for government IBM black list

The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009

Liberal Democrat MP Sandra Gidley has called on the government to black list major IT supplier IBM for not treating its workers fairly in its pension reforms. Gidley is MP for Romsey in Hampshire, which is home to a number of IBM workers from the Hursley research centre in nearby Portsmouth. IBM proposed changes to its final salary pension scheme earlier this year and has been attacked by the union...