GIRLS as young as 13 can now obtain abortion pills from a new walk-in clinic in Basingstoke. Based within the premises occupied by Hackwood Partnership GP practice in Essex Road, a special NHS-funded clinic is prepared to give the medication
PEOPLE with learning disabilities can become more independent with a service being piloted in Hampshire. Anyone with learning disabilities in Hampshire can be referred for Telecare technology, which links in with a centre staffed by trained specialists
BURGLARS used a hedge trimmer to smash their way through the front door of a house and steal pairs of trainers before assaulting one of the people living there. The two men entered the property in Kenilworth Road, Winklebury between midnight
A VANDAL has caused damage by spray-painting a car and wall in Tadley. The criminal damage occurred overnight between 9pm last Friday, June 4, and 8am on Saturday, when a Nissan Turano parked in Stratfield Avenue, Tadley, and the front wall of an address
THE commitment and hard work of both the netball and cricket teams of Vyne Community School was rewarded by a sports tour to Barton Hall, Torquay. The trip was to a specialist PGL activity centre and involved not just playing netball and cricket, but
BUDDY is a fun-loving bunny rabbit looking for a new home. The speckled pet is about 18 months old and would ideally like to live with a gentle female partner. He has been castrated and has been in STARescue’s care for eight months. He loves fresh
WITH the summer holidays approaching, rail companies are stepping up efforts to stop young people throwing stones at trains. Operators are determined to tackle anti-social behaviour that can cause hundreds of thousands of pounds of criminal damage every
THE organisers of one of Basingstoke’s biggest participation events have made a final plea for more women to get on board. Race for Life still has room for more than 1,000 entrants to the two events taking place at Down Grange this year to raise money
A PHOTOGRAPH that links a north Hampshire manor house to Operation Overlord during the Second World War has recently come to the light. Richard Tanner, chairman of the North Waltham, Steventon, Ashe and Deane History Society, believes the
IT WAS certainly worth waiting for Gina Ireland’s talk about her life as a female prison officer in a male-dominated regime at our May meeting. It was cancelled in January due to the snowy conditions. Gina lives at Micheldever and was fortunate to
‘WHO cared? Nursing and Health Provision for Soldiers and their Families in the Civil War and Interregnum’ was the title of the talk given by Dr Eric Gruber von Arni at the monthly meeting of the society held on May 13. Dr Gruber von Arni
LONDON’S Burning star Richard Walsh is returning to Basingstoke with The Late Edwina Black, a Victorian whodunit in which he plays the man from Scotland Yard. Audiences will be guessing their way through the twists and turns of this play, by William
KEITH Chapman, Mayor of Basingstoke and Deane, was the guest of honour at the annual presentation evening of the Basingstoke and District Football League. The Saturday League presentations were once again dominated by FC Censo who retained their Premier
