On Winchester Now this week:
- Hundreds of people will walk through Winchester on Saturday night raising money for Winchester Hospice.
- We hear from the Winchester Litter Pickers who, over the past almost 30 years, have helped rid the city of thousands of bags of rubbish and also helped raise money for charity.
- News-in-brief:
- The Winchester poetry festival takes place this weekend.
- Winchester Maternity Consultant, Martyn Pitman’s Employment Tribunal against Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust concluded earlier this week at Southampton Magistrates Court – decision is expected within a month.
- Trading standards officers in Hampshire are stepping up their campaign to stop the sale of vapes to children.
- Winchester Fashion Week returns to the city next week, with exhibitions, workshops, shopping events and a catwalk show.
- Winchester City Football Club, bowed out of the F.A. Trophy, after losing to Hungerford Town.
- Local community heroes to help switch on the Christmas Lights in Winchester on Thursday 16 November are being sought by Winchester BID.
- Community Shout-outs:
- To all the local schools, churches, businesses, community groups and individuals who took part in this year’s Winchester Green Week.
- To the more than 19, 000 Hampshire children who signed-up for this year’s ‘Summer Reading Challenge’ with Hampshire Libraries.
- To ourselves and our predecessors, as this week marks 55 years since ‘hospital radio’ first started in Winchester, entertaining patients and keeping them company!
- We talk to JJ Heath-Caldwell, Chairman of the Clarendon Marathon organising committee after last week’s charity event.
- We joined a team of amateur Crime Scene Investigators looking for the murderer of “The Body at the Podium” at the University of Winchester.
