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Coming in January 2012, selected articles will be available with an audio feed to enable visually impaired users to listen to the story instead of reading it.
Visitors to the Open Days at Chawton House Library, during the February half-term holiday, will find themselves face-to-face with actresses of the eighteenth-century as they explore the house. Some famous women depicted in the portrait collection will be brought to life by the ShadyJane Theatre Company. Today they would grace society magazines but there was...
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On Saturday 28th January, town councillors visited the new Finnimore Pavilion to view the progress of the new building and This is Alton was again given access to the inside. The building is most certainly taking shape internally now, and the councillors were treated to a tour of the building by arcitect Michael Weakley....
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The Alton Beer Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary this year and the 2012 event will be the biggest yet. The Winter Beer Festival on 17th and 18th February and will be held over 3 sessions and over 80 different real ales to sample. Starting in 2002 at the Assembly Rooms, the Alton Beer Festival...
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At This is Alton, beleive it is important to allow everyone to receive the news, so by adding audio and video to our site we can turn it into a free talking newspaper. By doing this we can get local news to those people who may find reading a news paper or website tricky. With this...
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Eager to race are (L-R) Andy Goodall, President of Alton Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Town Mayor Cllr Robert Saunders and Antony Worrell-Thompson (aka Greg Burt, Deputy Town Clerk) Alton’s annual bumper events programme kicks off literally on 14th February, when the town’s annual Pancake Race gets underway. Celebrating its thirteenth year, the spectacle...
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Pavilion Clock Anstey Park’s new Finnimore Pavilion took another step forward recently with the installation of it’s new clock tower. With two faces, one pointing towards the car park, the other to the playing fields, this handsome and colonial looking piece on the building is the latest addition to the new pavilion....
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