TIME is running out to nominate your education heroes in this year’s Basingstoke Gazette Education Awards. Nominations for this year’s awards are still being received, but the deadline of Thursday, 23 May is fast approaching in just one week's
NEARLY 400 runners made a dash through a Basingstoke shopping centre in a bid to raise money for charity. The Croudace Homes Festival 5k on Sunday featured a record number of entrants pounding their way through Festival Place and the wider Basingstoke
IT IS June 9, 1817 and a group of malcontents have assembled in a pub near Nottingham. The crew, led by their leader Jeremiah Brandreth, set about a plan of marching down to London and overthrowing the government, and by virtue wiping out the national
OPPOSITION councillors are calling for the ruling administration to give a clear commitment to the future of Basingstoke’s ice rink. As previously reported in the Gazette, concerns have been raised about the short-to-medium term future of the Planet
BASINGSTOKE Hockey Club Men beat Bournemouth 2-1 to win the Hampshire Trophy. With both teams competing in the same league, it was always going be a tight game. Basingstoke have won both comings together during the season, but Bournemouth having
A BASINGSTOKE headteacher has welcomed a government-backed review which has shone a spotlight on the use of exclusions to help boost exam results, but has called for more to be done. One area of the Timpson review over behaviour and exclusions in
THIS week's Flashback Thursday highlights the talent of local photographer Dick Dapre. Dick, of Harrow Way, has had an interest in bus photography since the late 1960s. His pictures show not only the change in transport, but the scenery and
BASINGSTOKE Hockey Club's Miranda Smith picked up England Hockey's Lifetime Achievement Award last Saturday. An integral member of the club, everyone knows Miranda, and she has been pivotal to Basingstoke Hockey for 47 years as a player, coach,
A HOOK-based IT support and services company is celebrating the value of apprentices. Freestyle IT wants to giving young people the opportunity to develop their professional experience and skills, both in technical and other business focused roles
A COMMUTER has slammed a ‘ridiculous’ decision to scrap trains departing Basingstoke for a major London hub in a key 90-minute period during the morning rush hour. On Sunday the timetable for trains at Basingstoke Railway Station will change, with
BASINGSTOKE and North Hants captain Mitch Stokes has stepped down and is likely to be replaced by David Griffiths or Ben Thane. A decision on his successor was due to be made at a meeting at the club last night. The skipper guided the side into
LIKE many schools, Everest is made up of many different departments and without them all it would not run as smoothly. Pastoral leads are a key part in Everest that helps support students in their time of need. We decided that we would like to
A FACIAL reconstruction image has been released in a bid to identify a man whose body was found in a farm building in 2017. Officers searched the disused barn off Bazeley Copse Lane, Micheldever on December 1, 2017, as part of enquiries into an
A BLUE badge fraudster modified his dead dad's permit in order to park in disabled bays. Stephen Mellor took his father's blue badge and modified it to make it look valid – changing the expiry date from 2017 to 2020. But he was caught out on
THE Basingstoke Bison have added two more forwards to their line-up for the coming campaign with the re-signing of import Michal Klejna, while Ryan Sutton returns after a season in Bracknell. Slovak sniper Klejna led the team in scoring last term
