Magistrates court again leaves Winchester (From Basingstoke Gazette)
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Magistrates court again leaves Winchester
3:55pm Tuesday 9th October 2012 in Winchester
By Andrew Napier
Winchester law Courts: temporary home for magistrates
MAGISTRATES have stopped sitting at Winchester Law Courts after a temporary relocation from Basingstoke.
The magistrates returned to Winchester last September to allow for a revamp in Basingstoke.
Their sitting in Winchester was for the first time since the local courts closed in 1995.
Now rebuilding work at Basingstoke has finished, some three months late, and its work resumed on Monday, October 1.
The two magistrates’ courts in Winchester closed in the mid-1990s amid much controversy that the county town should be without one.
Basingstoke Magistrates’ Court has been extended to create a county court.
