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BASINGSTOKE Town manager Jason Bristow looks back on his side's 1-0 defeat to Concord Rangers.

TADLEY Town Council voted unanimously on Monday to apply to borrow £250,000 to pay towards a new youth centre. Residents in the town recently voted in favour of the council borrowing the money from the Public Loans Board to help build a new facility

10:28pm There were just 137 people here tonight. Not a great way to end the season at home. That's all for tonight. Join me again on Saturday, when Town tie up their league campaign at Staines.

A POPULAR annual charity event, which gives walkers the chance to stroll through a private estate, will take place this month. The Woofs and Wellies fundraiser will take place on Sunday, April 27 in the grounds of the Earl of Portsmouth’s Estate

THE LEADER of Hampshire County Council has welcomed a St George’s Day initiative by the Government Minister for Communities and Local Government to authorise the use of traditional county names on road signs. Eric Pickles, Secretary of State for

VISITORS to Festival Place had a roaring time last week when a dinosaur model was unleashed into crowds of shoppers. A 10ft long, six ft high model of the Australovenator dinosaur popped into the shopping centre on April 15, along with its keepers

A PRIMARY school has suffered a sharp fall in performance and now ‘requires improvement’, according to education watchdogs. A team from Ofsted graded Tadley Community Primary School as ‘requires improvement’ following a visit in February – the

A FORMER nursery worker will not face further action after she was arrested on suspicion of assaulting two children. The 22-year-old woman was arrested on Friday, January 31 on suspicion of a minor physical assault on two children at Busy Bees,

DJS TELECOMS picked up two good wins to edge closer to the Basingstoke and District Saturday League Division Two title. The leaders beat Bounty United 4-1 on Wednesday before beating title rivals Hampshire Irons 3-1 on Saturday. Tom Cornick

MAZ Pennington grew up in Belgium, where she trained to be a dancer. Getting run over by a car at 16 meant she had to switch tack and moved to London to study law at university. Spending most of her time choreographing college musicals and appearing

AS REPORTED on The Gazette website, parents are being urged to lookout for signs of scarlet fever following a sharp increase in the number of cases of the highly contagious disease. Below is information from the NHS about the symptoms of scarlet

A THIEF stole parts from a car parked at Overton fire station. The theft took place at the retained fire station in Station Road, on the night of Tuesday, April 15. Sometime between 9pm and 8am the following morning, the bumper and alarm were

A TRACK in Odiham described as a “pot-holed quagmire” can now be paved over. Hart District Council approved a plan by Odiham Parish Council to cover with asphalt a 150-metre section of the track that runs from the Buryfields car park to the village

BASINGSTOKE and District Sunday League Division Two champions Lamb Inn were in top form at the weekend, hammering AFC Hook 6-0. Dean Hill hit a hat-trick, while Mark Howell scored twice and Peter Lomax also found the net for Lamb, who denied Chineham

A BASINGSTOKE supermarket is helping its customers to be environmentally friendly with the introduction of a new recycling initiative. Sainsbury’s in Kempshott has launched the scheme to recycle Easter egg packaging for the first time, running

BRAIN Chase Coles is the first firm in Basingstoke to be accredited by the Law Society’s Wills and Inheritance Quality Scheme (WIQS). Lucy Watson, head of wills and probate, at the firm of solicitors based in Wote Street, said The Law Society has

AS REPORTED in The Gazette, BCoT Nursery has retained its 'outstanding' Ofsted grade. Read the full report here

TWO chairs of a Labour group which represents young people in Hampshire have taken to the streets of Basingstoke to campaign for better pay for apprentices. Roxana Andrusca and Ryan Carter from the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Young (IOW) Labour

ONE of the World’s largest manufacturers and developers of products in the strain and stress measurement industry has doubled in size at TLC. Vishay Precision Group, known as VPG, has acquired Unit H, on the estate formerly known as The Loddon

HEALTH projects in Basingstoke have been given a £140,000 funding boost. A number of projects that have been developed by the Basingstoke and Deane Health and Wellbeing Partnership have been awarded extra cash from Hampshire County Council’s Public

A SPRING sale will help promote Overton Dramatic Society's next show. The group is holding the sale in St Mary's Hall, Overton, on Saturday from 10am until 12noon. Entrance is 50p which includes coffee or juice and the chance to browse various

AS REPORTED on The Gazette website, around 1,500 parents in Hampshire have missed out on securing their first choice school for their child this year. However, parents have the right to appeal the decision, and below is information on how this

A LAST-MINUTE equaliser denied Tadley Calleva an excellent victory over Wessex League Division One leaders Andover Town on Monday afternoon. It looked as if Brett Denham’s goal would be the winner at the Portway Stadium, but the hosts levelled

A SENIOR Conservative councillor has claimed that residents in some parts of Basingstoke have “lost confidence” in the borough council over its handling of the Manydown development. Cllr Robert Donnell, cabinet member for environment and climate

THE wait is finally over for thousands of Hampshire parents who found out last week where their child will go to school in September. However, around 1,500 parents in the county missed out on securing their first choice school, which was 41 per

WORK to repave Basingstoke’s Top of The Town is due to finish on Monday. Hampshire County Council (HCC) began the £280,000 project in Market Place last October and had hoped it would be complete by the end of March this year. HCC previously

TADLEY Calleva A’s chances of winning the Basingstoke and District Saturday League Division One title suffered a blow as they were held 0-0 by Overton United A. Overton had the best chance of the first half, Ross Soper-Dyer hitting the crossbar

A THIEF stole thousands of pounds worth of jewellery from a pensioner’s home in Kings Furlong. The 76-year-old woman noticed on Thursday, April 10, or Friday, April 11, that the drawer to her jewellery box had been left open. She thought nothing

OVER the past few months, several health centres in Basingstoke have been in the news. Last year it was announced that the Overbridge Surgery in Worting Road was to close and its patients be transferred to the Gillies Health Centre at Brighton

READING moved back into the Championship play-off places with a 2-0 victory over visiting Middlesbrough at the Madejski Stadium last night. Both goals came in the opening quarter of an hour. Adam Le Fondre bundled home his 14th goal of the

AN AWARDS ceremony to honour volunteers who helped in this year’s flooding crisis is set to take place at the end of the month. Councillors on Whitchurch Town Council announced that they plan to thank all those who helped to protect the town from

THE final of the Peter Raynbird Cup will be an all-Basingstoke and District Saturday League Division One affair after Skewers pulled off a shock win over Premier Division outfit Basingstoke Royals in the last four. Scott Harvey hit the post for

HAMPSHIRE residents who have been affected by flooding can now apply for grants up to £5,000 to help make properties more flood-resilient in the future. The Government’s ‘Repair and Renew’ Grant has been launched for residents whose properties

AFC ALDERMASTON'S outstanding run of form continued as they won three games over the Easter weekend, scoring 15 goals in the process. A Kai Parton-Edey double and Jamie Porter’s header earned them a 3-0 win at Clanfield on Thursday, while they