In this week’s episode:
- We join a community near Winchester as they deliver a sack full of thank you letters to the owners of their local post office who are retiring after 24 years
- We follow a protest by striking teachers through Winchester and hear why they say they had to take action
- News in brief
- Council tax in Hampshire is set to rise by 4.99%
- A former Prime Minister paid tribute to his friend and former flat-mate at his funeral in Hampshire
- Winchester MP Steve Brine asks for action over a spate of window smashing in the city centre
- 1 in 5 business fear cash flow problems in 2023 according to a survey by Winchester BID
- Play to the Crowd is awarded funding to enable the Hat Fair Carnival Parade to take place
- Football – Winchester’s result against Bashley
- The 1921 census is now available to view for free in all Hampshire libraries and the Hampshire Record Office. We hear from Councillor Russell Oppenheimer about why this census is so important
- We join the Winchester Talking Newspaper in their new home in Upper Brook Street, and talk to Chairman John Richards about the work of the organisation
- Shout Outs
- Santa runners who raised £37,000 for Naomi House and Jacks Place
- Community First celebrates its 10th birthday
- Thousands of people took part in the RSPB Birdwatch to help its conservation work
- The penguins at Marwell Zoo – isolated after an outbreak of Avian flu – are finally allowed home thanks to the hard work of staff
