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An Open Day is to be held at Enchanted Nursery in Alton, the newly-refurbished nursery, located at 103 Anstey Road, which is now under new ownership and management. The event will take place on Saturday 25 February, between 10am and 4pm, and all local parents seeking nursery childcare are invited to attend. Discounted childcare...
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So you want to start your own business….Are you ready? Really, really ready for take off? The most important thing in business is to know who you are competing with: what they offer, their standards and their prices. How will you will be different? Take British Airways – they are top of their market...
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We are always striving to improve our magazine website and in the last couple of weeks, we have added some fantastic new features to This is Alton. Readers Letters Communication from our readers is vitally important to the site. It gives you a chance to voice your opinion on any of the articles or...
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Building work that will deliver a new Waitrose food store and regenerate the area around Alton’s railway station is to begin on 20 February. The supermarket is expected to open its doors in Autumn 2012 giving shoppers in Alton and the surrounding area a much needed alternative to the current supermarket offering. The new...
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At This is Alton, we care deeply about the town and it’s community and want to try to support the groups and organisations around the town as much as possible. Of course, we can do this by publicising their events and their activities on a regular basis, but we can do more than that...
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Alton based Compsoft Plc, one of the world’s leading mobile and tablet app development companies, today launched iPresent, a revolutionary new iPad app that enables business users and sales teams to display and present any content through one intuitive, fully branded interface. Powered by a secure web-based Content Management System, organisations can make sure...
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Today (Thursday 29 Dec 2011), Anstey Road Pharmacy opened its doors in Alton Health Centre to provide a sneak preview ahead of its opening on Monday 2 January. Alton Town Mayor, Cllr Robert Saunders, and several councillors, patient representatives, GPs and staff from the Wilson Practice, professionals from the Primary Care Trust (PCT) and...
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Alton was throbbing with activity this weekend as people from far and wide flocked in for the town’s annual Yuletide Festival. Alton was alive with the Christmas spirit on 4th December as traders from across the south gathered early on Sunday morning and began setting up for the town’s biggest event of the year. It...
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Large Business Bonuses – Good or Bad?
Talk of bonuses in big business has recently been in the media headlines again with RBS big cheese Stephen Hester and his whopping shares bonus of £963,000 and his subsequent back-peddaling. So, what is it about big bonuses in business that really gets our goat? In my mind it is a good job that...
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