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Isn’t it funny how Christmas has been on the same day every year for 2011 years and yet many of us are still shocked when it has apparently crept up on us again? We are slowly bombarded by media ‘buy, buy, buy’ messages from before Hallowe’en in shops and even some media that we...
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Vandalised St. Swithun’s Poster! Within three weeks of Alton Town Council and Hampshire County Council unveiling a new promotion for walkers and patrons of St. Swithun’s Way, one of the posters in the High Street’s bus shelters has been vandalised. Proudly shown off on 30th November in an Alton Town Council press release in...
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Over 1000 people attended the switch on in the market square. Photo by Martin Saban-Smith Alton’s Market Square was packed out this evening as the town began to summon up the Christmas spirit once again! Families and people on the way home from work crammed themselves into the historic market square to witness this...
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I know we all seem to think that going holiday is a time for relaxation and to de-stress from our day-to-day lives by taking the time to enjoy the things we like doing, however I think that it is in fact the complete opposite! It starts with the holiday brochures – why are...
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As the supermarket battle rumbles on at the station and Mill Lane, we have to accept that one or the other is going to come to town. So let’s take a look at where shopping really belongs – the Town Centre. As a community, we are very lucky to have such an interesting and...
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Onlooker this month comments on time-keeping and his own desire for a slightly slower commercial clock. Christmas does seem to come around faster every year and I’m told that this is all part of the aging process. Oh, to be a child again when Christmas Day seemed years away, even when only in early...
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Readers of this column will recall that I have ranted previously about all things associated with eating out, back in the summer when we were making good use of the fine weather. Then it centred on table manners in particular. It saddens me to report that having recently been on holiday, and as we...
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In a world where choice seems to be offered at every turn, should we not be asking ourselves if choice really is a good thing? As a child I was always told ‘you will get what your given and be grateful’, and accepted this as normal seeing as I was not the paying for...
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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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