Winchester City Council offices, Colebrook Street EVERY cloud has a silver lining – or so says Winchester City Council s health and environment committee. It had been working closely with public health organisations throughout the pandemic and will now set up a group to ensure this continues. The Health and Wellbeing board will work from the ground up, listening to bodies from across the district. Cllr Jackie Porter said: Some good things really did come out of Covid. Foodbanks extended their help to the Meon Valley, Waterlooville and Alresford. The council worked very closely with local health bodies – a strength that we hope to retain with this new board.
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Hookpit Lane neighbours SIR: Jackie Porter in the latest Liberal Democrat flyer otherwise known as the “Worthys Focus” writing about the Tesco junction traffic congestion nightmare said, “we stand by our commitment to find a solution to this increasingly busy junction”. I and my neighbours would like more than political rhetoric. The solutions are there for the taking, and have been since well before Covid and lockdown produced the excuses for inaction. Traffic flow and congestion will be improved by removing the grass verges and putting in a parking bay on Hookpit Farm Lane so that traffic can flow unobstructed both ways. Parking restrictions (yellow lines) on the Springvale Road and Hookpit Lane junction to prevent people leaving their cars while they nip into Tesco’s would help and possibly moving the bus stop further awa
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There’s an underlying assumption in a lot of personal finance that people are partnered up and thus able to share their financial resources. Home buying and retirement are two big examples of how default advice often assumes two incomes and two streams of saving. For some perspective on personal finance for singles, I recently got in touch with Jackie Porter, a certified financial planner (CFP) and co-author of Single by Choice or Chance: The smart woman’s guide to living longer, better. Here’s an edited version of a Q&A we did by e-mail:
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THE RSPCA has awarded Winchester City Council’s Animal Welfare team a Gold Award for their work with stray dogs and the licensing of animal establishments. The team has been recognised for their continued efforts, having picked up a gold award for the third time in four years. The news comes despite the added pressure on the team in light of the Covid-19 pandemic and dog ownership increasing significantly during lockdown. The team, Dave Griffiths and Ross Shepherd, were recognised for going above and beyond for their work protecting, rehoming and returning stray dogs to their owners and ensuring establishments are providing excellent care for animals.