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Clerk’s Column January 2008
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Parish Council Minutes December 2007
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Clerk’s Column December 2007
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 …
Parish Council Minutes November 2007
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Clerk’s Column November 2007
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, …
Clerk’s Column October 2007
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 – …
Clerk’s Column September 2007
Shipshapely. How do you clean a barbecue? Well, wire wool and elbow-grease can remove the accumulated gunge in the end, but apparently the best implement is a Barbecue Brush. These should be re-named, as they are also being found to produce interesting results on barnacled boat-bottoms, rusty railings and peeling paintwork. Your Parish Council, not …
Clerk’s Column August 2007
Rising Tide of Democracy? In the world of journalism, the Summer Holiday period has always been known as the Silly Season, and when even the Daily Telegraph features a very large lady involuntarily doing a King Canute by getting stuck in a deckchair on a beach with a rising tide, you know it is time …
Clerk’s Column July 2007
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