THE Basingstoke Blizzards basketball team won their derby at old foes REME Arborfield 88-40. After a slow start, the visitors took a 5-4 lead and, helped by Rob Gerrard’s two three-pointers, hit 13 unanswered points on their way to a 22-6 lead
PUPILS and teachers at a Basingstoke junior school took part in a national charity event to raise money for vulnerable children. Youngsters at South View Junior School, in Shooters Way, South View, marked the NSPCC’s Number Day 2013 by dressing
BASINGSTOKE Town Ladies moved up to fourth in the Southern League Premier Division with a 3-1 victory over hosts Bracknell Town on Sunday. The home side took the lead after just two minutes but Basingstoke soon pulled level, Josette Pearmine providing
NORTH Warnborough ended their poor recent run with a 3-0 victory over hosts Basingstoke Saints in Basingstoke and District Sunday League Division One. The visitors went into the game having lost their last five - but they were the better side on
STREET lighting in Overton is to be upgraded in June 2014. Hampshire County Council has chosen Scottish and Southern Energy to replace street lighting as part of its Private Finance Initiative. A new centrally controlled base will dim street
EXTRA patrols will take place in South Ham this week after a man grabbed at a ten-year-old girl. The incident, which the police are treating as suspicious, took place at 4.40pm yesterday, as the girl walked along Pinkerton Road, near the junction
PRIORY School in Pamber End has been working with TetraBrazil to deliver football training to the infant classes from reception through to Year 2. Head teacher Suzanne Kelly said: “All of our children are enjoying the football coaching. They are
A FORMER Hampshire and England cricketer has lent his support to a local charity. Shaun Udal, who runs Dummer-based branding company Cotton Graphics, became involved with domestic abuse charity Taking Steps Project only last week after his colleague
LOCAL businesses are being urged to export and grow by Basingstoke MP Maria Miller. The Culture Secretary, who is currently with Prime Minister David Cameron on his trade delegation to China, hosted a seminar, flagging up the importance of exporting
• One four-bedroom dwelling with associated hard surfacing, boundary treatments and landscaping. Creation of new vehicular access at Bramley Inn, The Street, Bramley, Tadley. • Five one-bedroom units, following demolition of existing buildings
WITH winter now here, and resources at emergency departments across the country being stretched to their limits, patients are being urged to leave hospital as soon as they are well. The plea, which is being made as part of the Help Us to Help You
THE HEADLINE acts for next year’s Basingstoke Live have been announced. Rap duo Krept and Konan will take to the main stage on Saturday, July 12, while 1970s soul act The Real Thing will headline the following day. South London act Krept and
THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG (12A) Running time: 161 minutes Starring: Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, William Kircher, James Nesbitt, Stephen Hunter, Ken Stott, Graham McTavish, Aidan Turner, Benedict Cumberbatch, Cate
TEST Valley Golf Club have officially sworn in their captains for 2014. Lady captain Pauline Benham, seniors captain Alan Davison, club captain Chris Page and junior captain Mackenzie Phillips all took part in the annual drive-in at the Overton
HAMPSHIRE Irons are three points clear at the top of Basingstoke and District Saturday League Division Two following a 4-1 win over Bounty United. Kieran Dent and James Arnold had Irons two up inside 10 minutes but Jordan Willis pulled one back
THE grieving mother of a young man, who was found hanged in a Basingstoke park, told an inquest how she found three suicide notes on her son’s bed. A dog walker found the body of Scott Warriner in woodland at the Popley Community Park, in Popley
TADLEY Calleva held Wessex League Division One leaders Andover Town to a 3-3 draw at Barlows Park last night. Brett Denham gave the home side an early lead, which was doubled when Ashley Ledger took advantage of a poor clearance from the visiting
MANY actors of a high calibre have returned to town for this latest visiting production from ID Plays. And rather than Charles Dickens’ most famous festive work, it’s an adaptation of the author’s first novel, a rather episodic collection of adventures
THERE are seven local sides left in the youth Hampshire Cups. In the last eight of the under-12 Saturday competition, Basingstoke Town Colts Youth face Fleet Spurs Youth. In the under-15 semis, Basingstoke Town Colts Youth travel to the Junior
A MOTHER and her two young children fled their burning home after a fire started in the kitchen. The family escaped their town house in Hoursome Court, Beggarwood last night, as the fire took hold on the first floor. A brave neighbour then
THE young cast of the 2014 Basingstoke Gang Show spread Christmas cheer at a cold Chineham Shopping Centre recently. The talented performers spent two hours at the centre on Saturday, December 7 and sang a range of festive favourites both traditional
MEMORIAL Christmas trees will be on display at a Tadley funeral home as an act of remembrance for those who want to remember lost loved ones. Geoffrey Church & Co Funeral Directors are inviting people to visit their premises, in Bishopswood
BASINGSTOKE Town progressed to the fourth round of the Hampshire Senior Cup with a solid, if not spectacular, victory over Wessex League outfit Bournemouth Poppies. Jason Bristow’s men came out on top in Dorset despite an uneven pitch making things
Sir.–The traffic problems at Basingstoke hospital (as recently reported in The Gazette) could be solved if a more direct route was made by building a road across the large field between the Aldermaston Road and the hospital, thus avoiding the L-shaped
THE minister in charge of the Armed Forces has praised Chinook personnel after a visit to RAF Odiham. Mark Francois MP toured the north Hampshire airbase last Thursday – his first visit since his appointment in October to Minister of State for
YOUNG Basingstoke and North Hants cricketer George Metzger was presented with the Hampshire under-11 Batsman of the Year award at the Hampshire Cricket Board boys’ junior age group presentations at the Ageas Bowl. He finished third overall in all
