Winchester

He's been suspended by Reform.

Our correspondent Duncan Kennedy reports from Winchester, where Hampshire County Council is based.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Police said its investigation into Councillor Madgwick began in July last year after receiving a report of a sexual offence.

Prosecutors say he's been charged with a total of 35 offences over a 13-year period involving four victims who were aged between 16 and 17 at the time.

They had their own sequence of kings and civil wars and the ebb and flow of the power structure between the Vikings and the Anglo-Saxons depended a lot on who was in charge, say, in York.

as much as it did on who was in charge in Winchester, the capital of Wessex.

He's constantly trying to add to the lands that he controls.

For instance, when Æthelflaed's husband Æthelred had died in 911, Edward managed to take control of some of the eastern parts of Mercia, particularly London and Oxford.

Stanningham, however, is the common reading which Camden thinks is staining in Sussex.

The Saxon Chronicle, A.D. 855, states that Ethel Wolfe was buried in Winchester.

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During two years and a half of licentiousness after his father, he held the government of the West Saxons.

At length, however, when I perceived that he was anxious for my services, though I knew not why, I promised him that, if my life was spared, I would return to him after six months, with such reply as should be agreeable to him as well as advantageous to me and mine.

With this answer he was satisfied, and when I had given him a pledge to return at the appointed time, on the fourth day we left him and returned on horseback towards our own country.

After our departure, a violent fever seized me in the city of Winchester, where I lay for twelve months and one week, night and day, without hope of recovery.

At the appointed time, therefore, I could not fulfil my promise of visiting him, and he sent messengers to hasten my journey and to inquire the cause of my delay.' As I was unable to ride to him, I sent a second messenger to tell him the cause of my delay and assure him that, if I recovered from my infirmity, I would fulfil what I had promised.

I'm Ray Brown.

Picture a tiny village outside Winchester, England.

About 150 people, a corner shop with a post office counter, a pub across the street, and a football pitch out back.

A young man behind the post office counter didn't know it yet, but he was learning the most important skill in hospitality, knowing everybody's name, knowing their story, and making them feel like they belong.

are you

today? I'm good.

So take us back to the village outside of Winchester.

What was it like being the sub postmaster at a young age? And what did that encounter teach you about people?

He's quite the tennis fan.

Starbucks millionaire Mark Hepburn has been ordered by Winchester City Council to tear down a tennis court he built in Durley, which is just north of Hedge End and Botley.

This is quite a scandal in the Southampton circles.

And it's been going on for at least a year.

But the hardest thing of all... is planning permission.

All right, second news item then is actually better news for tennis players all around the county.

So St. Swithin's School in Winchester has officially opened a new indoor center for tennis.

They've built an indoor space that has capacity for three netball courts, eight pickleball courts, or four tennis courts.

There was a tiny one in Pilton, in Devon, just a little more than an outpost.

And two much larger fortified towns, the largest of which was inevitably Winchester, the Saxon capital.

And many of these burrs were built on either side of a river so that they could put a bridge across the middle of it.

And so if any Viking ships tried to get up the river, they could easily be attacked from these burrs and they could, you know, throw rocks at them or chuck spears or fire arrows.

The wonderful Alfred dying of bum boils.

But anyway, he died when he was about 50.

And he was temporarily buried with his wife, Elswith, in an old church in Winchester.

Yeah.

In the first half, Kenyan entomologist and evolutionary biologist Dr. Dino Martins offers a fresh, shockingly hopeful perspective on ecology, nature, and human survival amidst climate change.

In the second half, poet and teacher Emma Must recounts her time as a quiet Winchester librarian who stood up against Margaret Thatcher's aggressive motorway program at Twyford Down, reminding us of the extraordinary things ordinary citizens can accomplish when they pool their power.

But I don't need to tell you all this, because we can always depend on Peterson to do a magnificent job of raising up both knowledge and spirit through his work.

All yours, Peterson.

Today, I join you from my new home in South Africa, and I bring you two guests from two different countries.

If you ask Emma Must what she does today, she'll tell you she's a poet and a teacher in Belfast.

But 30 years ago, she was a quiet librarian in Winchester, England, and she took on Margaret Thatcher's road-building machine.

Emma locked her neck to earth movers, was dragged over razor wire fences, and got locked up in London's notorious Holloway Prison, all to save a hill she loved.