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  • Vehicles stay on title track

    Aldridge Vehicle 4 HBT RBL 0. Hurstbourne went down to a good AVS side with two goals in each half. Skipper Ed Hall played through the pain barrier in the first half, before having to come off which reduced HBT to ten. Lee Mitchener and Russell Mount

  • Docree at the double

    Andover U15 2 Berg 1. In this midweek clash a great ball from Tom Cuthbertson and a cool finish from Alex Docree gave Andover an early lead, but Berg equalised shortly after the break. Andover bombarded the Berg defence for the remaining 30 minutes

  • Dealer in fake gold tried to sell to Wpc

    A MAN attempting to sell fake gold in Andover town centre has been arrested and charged by police following a warning about similar conmen in the Andover Advertiser last month. The 21-year-old from Birmingham was arrested outside Lidl in the High Street

  • Unblemished champions share six with 'Field

    Andover Vets 3 Petersfield Vets 3. Greenfield Research sponsored Andover Vets went into their last game of the season on a high. It was their 22nd game in the Wessex Masters League and they had won 21 and drawn one and they did not want to lose this

  • New jerseys in Jersey for U16s

    Andover RFC U16s travelled to Jersey to play its Hampshire League game with Jersey U16 and also to take part in a four-team tournament with the hosts and teams from Boston and Stratford last weekend. Any thoughts that the tour would be easy were shattered

  • Sweet revenge and a semi-final place

    Andover II 62 Winchester II 0. The quarter-final of the Senior Merit Table Cup saw Andover take on a Winchester side which had inflicted their first home defeat two weeks previously. Needing no further incentive and fielding a very strong team, the

  • Andover off to new track and field flyer

    A team of Andover AC athletes, who are sponsored by CK Building Contractors, travelled to Abingdon for their first track and field event of the season. Having spent many months away from the competition arena the first event is normally just to see how

  • Team Sonic Racing take the plunge

    How the Mighties could fall this season as Team Sonic Racing collaborate with Utopia Design, to challenge for top spot in the 2007 BRSCC Mighty Mini Championship. Voted the best British circuit racing club championship, the series hosts 1275cc classic

  • G and T's all round for P and T

    Philip and Tacey may have finished bottom of Division One, but they more than made up for their lowly position by walking away with the Advertiser Cup last week. Their opponents in the final were John Hanson A, another Division One side, who had to concede

  • Callous raiders target 102-year-old

    ANDOVER police are appealing for witnesses after raiders made off with cash and jewellery from the Charles Dalton Court home of a 102-year-old woman. The theft happenedsometime between mid-day on March 28 and 8am on March 30. More than £200 cash and

  • Risk of floods lessen

    THE risk of flooding in King's Somborne has dropped now that groundwater levels are falling. According to the Environment Agency little rainfall during the last few weeks has helped to stabilise the groundwater levels across both the village and much

  • Twins' marathon effort

    RETIRED Army Colonel Paul French has been pounding the lanes of Abbotts Ann and Anna Valley in recent months in training for the Flora London Marathon on 22 April. Paul, who worked for several years on the staff at DLO in Andover, has run several marathons

  • 'Road full of potholes and crumbling verges'

    HAMPSHIRE Highways is yet to commit to major improvement works on one of the main roads into Overton - despite the fact that residents and members of the parish council have branded it as dangerous. The C29, which runs from the end of Winchester Street

  • Heart-throb Ben to top festival

    X FACTOR heartthrob Ben Mills is to be the headline act at this year's Tidworth Area festival. The festival takes place on Sunday 29 July on the tattoo ground in the grounds of Tedworth House. Ben Mills was a runner up in the 2006 X Factor competition

  • It’s quackers – but lots of fun

    VILLAGERS from Shipton Bellinger turned out in force along the banks of the River Bourne to cheer on hundreds of plastic participants in the duck race. Around 300 ducks negotiated a stretch of the fast flowing waterway in three races during the afternoon