Category: Clerk’s Column

To view the September 2008 Clerk’s Column, please click here.

To view the August 2008 Clerk’s Column, please click here.

To view the June 2008 Clerk’s Column, please click here.

To view the April 2008 Clerk’s Column, please click here.

To view the March 2008 Clerk’s Column, please click here.

To view the February 2008 Clerk’s Column, please click here.

To view the January 2008 Clerk’s Column, please click here.

QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT.It was expected that by the time you read this, the Lights would have staged the real-life drama of Tesco and the Magic Roundabout; but since the meeting was postponed an uneasy but welcome peace has descended. Perhaps the Advertiser’s Sports Pages will soon feature a friendly Christmas football match on …

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Shops.“A Nation of Shopkeepers” was Napoleon’s summing up of the British character, though no-one knows whether he meant it as a compliment; and Adam Smith, founder of the science (?) of Economics, also talked about a nation governed by shopkeepers. It is strange that well within living memory, apart perhaps from Boots, W.H.Smith and Woolworths, …

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The Shed. As readers of the Andover Advertiser will be aware, the developers of the Airfield site have been bending over backwards to show that they have listened to us and actually read some of our letters. As a result they have made some pretty drastic changes to their plans in terms of reducing – …

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