FOLLOWING a one-day hearing in December, Sainsbury's appeal for extended delivery hours from 5am right through until midnight has been dismissed by the inspector William Cunningham, who challenged the supermarket giant to prove its need for extending the hours.

Current deliveries start at 7am and continue until 9.30pm, involving a total of 12 deliveries per day, made by six large articulated lorries and a number of smaller vans, and will remain so under a condition imposed in September 1998, when the supermarket opened in Liphook.

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