A team from Andover Archers attended the Hampshire County trials in Southampton on Saturday. Dawn Gore, daughter Beth, and husband Martyn, Tim Croot, Richard Portsmouth, Gemma Flippance and Luke Olding made up the squad. After a full day's shooting in
Neston South Wirral 2 Andover HC 3. Last weekend champions Andover Hockey Club packed their bags for a National Cup semi-final on the Wirral. With a long journey to get there it seemed only sensible to drive up on the Saturday afternoon and stay overnight
POLICE have named the motorcyclist who died after a collision on the A342 at Faberstown on 31 March. 22-year-old Rory Francis Paul, of Andover Road, Ludgershall, was riding a black Honda motorcycle from Ludgershall towards Andover when the bike left
Andover III 22 Reading Vets 16. This week's game with closest rivals Reading Vets in the Thames Valley Invitational Division B was a must win for the visitors. Andover were ready for the battle and from the offset won the line out through Pete McDowell
In 1996, John Surtees, the only man yet to win a world championship on both two wheels and four asked local race rider Norman White if he would be happy to take his ex-works 750cc John Player Norton to Silverstone, to join a host of famous riders parading
Young Andover Wheeler Max Webber competed in the first in a series of cycle races at Thruxton Circuit. In a strong field of 19 Youth A (U16) riders, it was always going to be a competitive race but it was made even tougher by the strong winds on the
THE lay readers and villagers of Amport, Grateley, Monxton and Quarley threw a tea party to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the licensing of their popular parish priest Chris Pettet as priest-in-charge of the benefice. More than 100 villagers attended
PLANS are well under way for this year's Test Valley Voluntary Group Awards. The awards event will fall within Volunteers' Week, from 1 to 7 June, which is the UK's annual celebration of the work volunteers do. This year Test Valley Borough Council,
TIM Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence and William H Macy hit the road in this rollicking comedy-adventure about a group of middle-aged friends who decide to rev up their routine suburban lives with a freewheeling motorcycle trip. Taking a long dreamed-of
A KEY requirement for Foundation Trust status is economic viability and the organisation that runs Andover and Winchester hospitals is still just about on course to break even this year. With February's financial results in for Winchester and Eastleigh
IT was the end of an era for the Chantry Centre in Andover when one of its longest-serving employees retired. Hugh McKenzie - known locally as Mack - worked as a security guard and customer care representative at the centre for 17 years. After completing
A HEALTH trust director has said she will think twice' before again using an image of a prisoner in Guantanamo Bay to illustrate a point about patient transfers. Karen Ashton, managing director of medicine and community services at Winchester and Eastleigh
PUPILS from 15 schools in and around Andover took part in the town's very first Sparkling TAG Rugby festival where they were competing for four trophies. The event, modelled on Hampshire's successful TAG rugby format which has been running for almost
A WIDESPREAD consultation process has begun with staff over possible job losses, as plans for the proposed merger of Cricklade and Sparsholt colleges gain momentum. All 744 staff across the two colleges have received letters, but 263 of them have been
O'NE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO FRIDAY, 7 APRIL 1882 STAG HUNT IN ANDOVER The novelty of a stag being hunted through a town is sufficient to account for a considerable amount of excitement, and the inhabitants of Andover, or as many as were
