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  • Come and buy a box

    SHOPPERS who want to bring joy to poor children can "buy" shoeboxes filled with Christmas gifts this weekend. Members of the borough's three Rotary clubs will be in Porchester Square in Basingstoke's Festival Place shopping centre on the next two Saturdays

  • Jimmy Carr and Ross Noble to return to The Anvil in 2009

    TICKETS are now on sale for Jimmy Carr's two-date return to The Anvil next year with his show Joke Technician. He'll be in Basingstoke on January 27 and on March 24, and fans are advised to make their bookings now, judging by how quickly these events

  • News from the Pews September 22

    THERE are lots of events taking place in October, beginning with a "Meet the Quakers" afternoon during National Quaker Week. The event will be held in their meeting house, at 14 Fairfields Road, on Sunday, October 5, from 1pm to 4pm. There will be a

  • Cigarettes stolen during garage raid

    BURGLARS got away with a stash of cigarettes from a north Hampshire garage. Police officers were called to the Texaco garage on the A339 at Kingsclere, shortly before 6.30am this morning (Wednesday, September 24) following reports of a burglary. The