TRIBUTES have been paid to a ‘fun-loving’ former chairman and president of a cricket club. Bob Butchers, who was also a champion tipster for a national newspaper, died on March 31 aged 94. He was the chairman of Odiham and Greywell Cricket Club
GREEN waste has been piling up uncollected for some residents in Old Basing. Residents in Hatch Park, off London Road in Old Basing, have had issues since signing up to the new Green Waste collection scheme from Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council
CHILDREN at Jubilee Day Nursery have been given some hands-on outdoor learning. The Padworth-based nursery, situated on 60 acres of woodland and which has a private farm, welcomed 20 new lambs to the family. Children took part in small workshops
A PROPOSAL to charge groups for the use of council-owned land has been given the green light. At a Whitchurch Town Council Leisure and Environment Committee meeting on Monday, councillors agreed to introduce a ‘£1 per head’ charge for commercial
TRAFFIC has now cleared on the M3 motorway following a multi-car collision which earlier caused lengthy delays. Five cars were involved in a road traffic collision on the westbound carriageway of the M3 near Junction 6 (Basingstoke) this morning
FOUR members of staff at Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council have been featured in the latest ‘Town Hall Rich List.' The annual rundown compiled by the pressure group the Taxpayer’s Alliance records the council employees across the country to
ADVENTURE AS went to their Willow Park Fishery on Sunday last and it was Rob Gallagher who topped out with 43lb 8oz of carp on pole and pellet, Mike Allen used the bomb with pellet for 42lb 8oz of carp, Steve Hunt’s 36lb 12oz was a carp on the method
THESE are some of the people from Basingstoke and the surrounding area to recently appear in court: MATHEW Thomas Cooke, 31, of St Mary’s Road, Kingsclere. Pleaded guilty to driving a motor vehicle, namely a Skoda Fabia, while under the influence
