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London leaver: 'I miss Vauxhall's diversity but we're saving £1,000 pcm on housing costs in Winchester'

Calm, peaceful, less crowded than London — and significantly cheaper — this family’s move to Winchester has been a net positive

Evening Standard

Statue of Jane Austen unveiled to mark 250th anniversary of her birth

Artist Martin Jennings created the sculpture installed in the grounds of Winchester Cathedral.

Evening Standard

You can now rent Winchester Cathedral’s Deanery for a holiday stay

The public has never previously been able to stay in the property

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Why snappy dogs, scratchy cats, and hungry worms were part of a medieval woman’s vision of the afterlife

The afterlife is not typically associated with aggressive pets and insatiable worms. But these are exactly the creatures that appeared to an unnamed woman recluse living in Winchester, England, over the course of three nights in the summer of 1422. The woman was an anchoress. That means she had chosen…

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‘Like a bullet going right by you’: affluent English towns and suburbs rail against noisy, unstoppable rise of padel tennis

From Bath to Weybridge and Winchester to Lytham St Annes, padel’s ‘gunfire-like’ acoustics are making locals seethe

The Guardian - UK

What a racket: neighbours object to noisy padel playing at Hampshire sports club

Winchester Racquets and Fitness expects to be served noise abatement order over ball strikes like ‘gunshots’

The Guardian - UK

Bournemouth woman’s killer was not referred for support after prison release, inquest told

Inquest into Marta Elena Vento’s killing by Stephen Cole, who had psychosis, told of ‘crisis’ on mental health team at Winchester prison

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London Leaver: "I thought I would die in London but I'm completely happy in Winchester"

Emma McCaffrey has found a completely new way of life outside the capital

Evening Standard

Grotto organisers offer furious parents refunds over ‘fake santa’ at festive event

The Hampshire Cultural Trust has apologised for the new grotto experience at the Great Hall in Winchester

The Independent UK

‘Kids were in tears’: visitors complain of Santa ‘shambles’ at Hampshire grotto

Refunds offered for event at Great Hall in Winchester after visitors say Santa is not jovial and beard is ‘blatantly fake’

The Guardian - UK

Winchester prison needs ‘urgent improvement’, watchdog warns

Drug use was ‘rife’ but the prison’s approach to testing was ‘weak’, inspectors said.

Evening Standard

List Of UK Towns And Cities 'Best For Job Opportunities' Revealed With Top Spot Seeing People Earning £40K Yearly

Ciphr's comprehensive study ranks the top UK cities for job opportunities and salaries, highlighting Winchester as the best city overall based on various economic indicators.

International Business Times UK

OPINION - John Darlington on London Monuments: Vauxhall Gardens from racy arbours to Taylor Swift

Historically, the south side of the river, especially around Southwark, has always had a different vibe from the medieval and Tudor city across the Thames to the north. More relaxed, it was where London’s citizens went for entertainment away from the legal formality and puritanism of the city. It was…

Evening Standard

Playing fields sold off, swimming pools closed down – state-school children don’t have a sporting chance

A Guardian report has revealed the huge areas of outdoor space owned by UK private schools. It’s time for this inequality to end, says journalist Robert Verkaik

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How England’s top private schools came to own 38,000 acres of land

Students at top fee-paying institutions benefit from centuries of philanthropy originally intended to help the poor

The Independent UK

Lib Dems sued by ex-candidate ousted ‘because he is a Christian’

Former BBC journalist David Campanale’s cause against the Lib Dems is being supported by the bishops of Winchester and Guildford - two target seats for the party

The Independent UK

Gladstone would not be welcome in ‘anti-Christian’ Lib Dems, claims top Bishop

The Bishop of Winchester Philip Mounstephen has denounced the Lib Dems after claims that a former BBC journalist was deselected by the Lib Dems over his Christian beliefs

The Guardian - UK

Inmates dug through Winchester prison walls with plastic cutlery, report finds

One in 10 prisons in England and Wales barely fit for purpose, says audit of prisoner treatment

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The Guardian - UK

Former Winchester mayor cleared of trying to smother his dying mother

David McLean’s alleged confessions of killing his mother with a pillow deemed unreliable by judge

The Guardian - UK

Leprosy passed between medieval squirrels and humans, study suggests

Genetic analysis of Winchester samples shows similar strains of disease and supports theory that fur trade played role in spread

The Guardian - UK

Winchester college teacher kissed and cuddled pupil, jury hears

Simon Taylor, who taught between 1990 and 2013, ‘fell in love’ with male student who was 16 or 17 at the time, court told

WEKU

Dirty South Pottery: From Side Hustle to Full-Time Business

Sam Dick visited a Winchester Couple who took a hobby and built it into a thriving art business.

The Guardian - UK

‘My child was drowning’: life and death on an English maternity ward

Norah Bassett was hours old when she died in 2019, after multiple failings in her care. What can be learned from her heartbreaking loss?

USA Today Sports Media Group

Massachusetts high school hockey championship ends with a buzzer-beater (and controversy)

There is controversy in Massachusetts in the end of the D1 state title game.

WEKU

Suspected tornadoes kill at least 3 in Ohio as severe storms tear through central U.S.

Tornadoes tore through several states, flattening homes and trailers in an RV park and killing at least three people, with more bodies likely to be discovered, authorities said.

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