Dec 3, 2022 | Audio stories, Local news
It’s another early start for Age Concern’s sponsored cyclist Nicky Gardner. She reflects on recent days and shares her experiences – some more pleasant than others, before heading off in the saddle again in a new adventure. Nicky with local cycling...
Dec 2, 2022 | Audio stories, Local news
In today’s update in the Age Concern sponsored bike ride series there’s a message from Owen, owner of local independent business Owen’s Cycles Right Bike in Petersfield, who provided Nicky’s sponsored cycle tops. Nicky has a break from cycling...
Dec 2, 2022 | Audio stories, Local news
Over one hundred selection boxes donated by local people as part of Joe and Amelia’s annual Christmas Appeal for local charities were handed over by Joe to Mandy May-Martin assistant manager at The Kings Arms. Mandy tells us about the young recipients and the...
Dec 1, 2022 | Audio stories, Local news
Age Concern’s charity cyclist Nicky Gardner leaves Vietnam and arrives in Cambodia. She shares a taste of a sombre visit to the Killing Fields before cycling on from Phnom Penh city through rural villages – for 70km or so – before arriving at Kampon...
Nov 30, 2022 | Audio stories, Local news
For today’s sponsored bike ride update from Vietnam Nicky continues to share her adventure – today we join her for a boat ride. Locals selling their wares on the Mekong Delta Plants at a local stall in Vietnam Local produce – we have yet to find out...
Nov 29, 2022 | Audio stories, Local news
Local Age Concern volunteer Nicky Gardner is raising awareness about ‘Linking up against loneliness’ with her sponsored cycle ride Vietnam to Cambodia – an adventure Shine Radio is following. Reporter Jo Gray hears from Age Concern Petersfield & District...
Nov 28, 2022 | Audio stories, Local news
An early start for Nicky Gardner’s cycle ride today from Tra Vinh to Can Tho. She shares her experience of the sponsored adventure with our listeners to help raise awareness of local volunteer roles with Age Concern – a charity she is passionate about and...
Nov 27, 2022 | Audio stories, Local news
Locals and passers-by will have seen the festive – and seasonal – decorations that regularly feature outside a house in Petersfield’s Station Road. Jo Gray meets support worker Maxine Cheshire to find out more about the importance of crafting for the...
Nov 25, 2022 | Audio stories, Local news
The festive fundraising event for Petersfield retailers organised by Hector’s Menswear of Chapel Street in Petersfield is back! Shop owner Joe Bicknell tells our roving reporter Jo Gray all about the return of the elves and the town centre trail to find them. All...
Nov 25, 2022 | Audio stories, Local news
Age Concern needs your help – Petersfield volunteer Nicky Gardner is using her challenge of cycling from Cambodia to Vietnam not only as a fundraiser for the charity but also to raise awareness of local loneliness and the appeal for more volunteers from across...
Nov 25, 2022 | Audio stories, Local news
Laura Sheppard popped along to a rehearsal of The Addams Family, which is a musical based on the well-known TV show about a quirky, gloom-obsessed clan that has lived by its own unique values for hundreds of years. The show which has been re-scheduled twice due to...
Nov 25, 2022 | Audio stories, Local news
Sam Parnell, who worked on such films as The Favourite with Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz and Mark Gatiss, will be at a Question and Answer session at East Meon Cinema. He assistant directed The Phantom of the Open with Mark Rylance and he will be doing a...
Nov 24, 2022 | Audio stories, Local news
You and hundreds of other Petersfield residents can get discounted fruit trees this December. The initiative is organised by the Petersfield Climate Action Network (PeCAN) and subsidised by your council tax payments. Jo Gray hears more from PeCAN’s Amelia...
Nov 23, 2022 | Audio stories, Local news
It’s the 24th November 2022 and at St Peter’s Church in Petersfield today, we will remember the 32 people who drowned in the Channel one year ago by lighting candles of remembrance. At 12.30pm there will be a little time of remembrance where the 32 people...
Nov 20, 2022 | Audio stories, Local news
Andy Baker and Reece Payne are old friends from school, but now Andy is cycling 400kms in one day to help raise funds for an alternative cancer treatment for Reece. Hear from them both hear as they chat to Laura Sheppard. Andy believes a form of treatment available in...
Nov 20, 2022 | Local news, Press releases
Petersfield’s volunteer-run Shine Radio has been named the best digital community station in the UK. The local radio station collected the gold award at the national Community Radio Awards ceremony on Saturday night. The judges’ said: This is a genuinely impressive...
Nov 15, 2022 | Audio stories, Local news
An iconic mosaic depicting a map of Petersfield and images of local interest has been reinstalled after a recent new development in Dragon Street – with a corner now being obscured by an ugly black box, a piece of long-standing equipment positioned next to the...
Nov 14, 2022 | Audio stories, Local news
Jo Gray had the pleasure of meeting The Oak Beaver Colony in Sheet welcomed our roving reporter Jo Gray to the Scout Hut on Remembrance Day. Some of the Beavers spoke about the special day and what it means. We hear from Florence and Oli – plus Finbar....
Drinking with Phill and Mags – December
