INFORMATION Evening: For local qualified electricians, automotive technicians, plumbers, engineers and those with qualifications in biology and chemistry! Basingstoke College of Technology is looking for people with these skills who are interested in moving into teaching. The information evening is on Tuesday, March 3, at 6pm. Call 306369 to register.

BASINGSTOKE Civil Service Retirement Fellowship: The next meeting is its AGM and lunch on Wednesday, March 4, and its following meeting, at 10am on Wednesday, April 1, at Brookvale Village Hall, sees a talk on ‘The National Railway Museum, York’, given by Dr Ian Harrison. Contact Tony Brazier on 418770.

THANKS and congratulations: To Sainsbury’s depot and Cranbourne Business and Enterprise College on a year’s extension to the ‘Adopt a School’ scheme. Previous activities under this scheme have included a cooking challenge and BTEC sports visit.

If you are part of a business and want to improve school links, contact the school to see how you could help.