On Winchester Now this week:
- Winchester Vineyard church is holding a toy fair next week and is appealing for donations to help families in need this Christmas.
- News-in-brief:
- Police are investigating a series of break-ins at businesses in Alresford.
- Hundreds of people have gathered at the Cathedral to remember those caught up in the conflict in the Middle East.
- Police have carried out a raid in Winchester and discovered a large cannabis factory.
- Winchester Radio talks to Michele Price who is leaving her role as Chief Executive of the Winchester Beacon after 15 years. She tells us about her proudest achievements and changes in that time.
- News-in-brief:
- A plan to redevelop Winchester City Football Club’s Abbots Barton ground has been approved.
- An inquiry into proposals to change Junction 9 of the M3 has now ended.
- A tree, planted to commemorate the Queen’s Silver Jubilee, has been cut down after it was found to be diseased.
- A Winchester organisation which provides community cooking workshops held a party this week to launch its first cookbook. Winchester Radio was invited along.
- Shout-outs:
- To the hundreds of students from the University of Winchester who received their degree certificates last week.
- To the local groups, schools and organisations who entertained the crowds ahead of the Christmas lights switch-on.
- To Winchester Rotary who’ve donated more than 600 shoeboxes to an appeal to help disadvantaged children across the world.
- To the cast and audiences at a recent production of Calendar Girls at the Theatre Royal who donated thousands of pounds to local charity Winchester GoLD.
- Thousands of people are already flocking to Winchester to enjoy the Christmas market. The city has been voted one of the prettiest for a Christmas shop. We joined the light switch on and opening of the market.
