December 2007 News Archive

Ninety businesses from across Hayling Island have signed up for the Christmas Window Spotting Competition which has been organised by MTI Committee member Rosemary Satchwell from The Terracotta Pot Shop. The Competition runs for the whole of Decem...

Hi Forum Members, just to update the web site I have now collected in all the money and am pleased to announce we exceeded expectations and raised a total £1595 plus the gift aid claimed. If anyone needs or wants to view the receipt please contact me...

Reports are coming in that a small herd of reindeer have been spotted grazing in the grounds of Mengham Infant School. The staff and children had so enjoyed making the scarecrow sheep during the summer that Mrs Randall the Headtecher encouraged th...

Don't forget that the shopping centre of Mengham will be celebrating Christmas with a late evening opening. The road will be closed to vehicles and the shops will be offering free drinks and food. A hot roast chestnut stall, the ubiquitous "Lion...

The volunteer train crew of the Hayling Seaside Railway’s first ‘Santa Special’ train on Saturday 8 December, were shocked to discover that their intermediate station ‘Hornby Halt’, had suffered an unwanted visit from the ‘boot fairy’. Named foll...

On Thursday, January, 17th, at 7.30 in the URC hall, HIRA will be presenting the merits of a Town Council. It is quite clear that there are widely differing views on this matter but HIRA felt it was time to air opinion again, largely as a result of ...

Police in the Havant area tested local licensees in an operation to tackle underage drinking on Friday, December 7. Officers conducted the test purchase operation using two underage girls to see if they would be served with alcohol. The youngsters...

Solent Coastguard and other emergency services are current conducting a search from Hayling Bay to Eastney after a kite-surfing kite was found washed up. In the hope that the Hayling Surfcam may have accidentally captured useful information our ow...

Opportunist thieves have made an audacious raid on Santa’s railway carriage grotto, at Beachlands station on the Hayling Seaside Railway, in the shadow of the Funland roller coaster. But readers can rest assured that the resulting disappointed faces ...