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  • FLASHBACK THURSDAY: A look back at estate pubs in the area

    ENGLISH postwar estate bars are often seen as a joke: “Never drink in a flat-roofed pub,” the saying goes. But these pubs – whether they’re 1930s-style redbrick structures with pitched roofs and large beer gardens, or forbidding cubes of wood and

  • Millerick takes over as lone manager of Hartley Wintney

    Hartley Wintney have announced that Anthony Millerick has accepted the club's offer to continue as first team manager for season 2019/2020. It will be his fifth season at the helm. In his four seasons at the club since joining for the 2015/16

  • Students work with professional artists in Festival

    Budding artists from the borough enjoyed the opportunity to work alongside with professionals as part of this year’s Basingstoke Festival. Schools across the borough welcomed the chance, offered by Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council, to have

  • Finch Group Cyril Thompson Trophy semis draw revealed

    HOOK and Newnham Basics B became the second team to make the last four of the Finch Group Cyril Thompson Trophy after they beat Andover by 29 runs. Hook will face Kingsclere or Rotherwick in the their semi-final, while Oakley will play the winners

  • Railway staff show Pride with colour

    Basingstoke railway station was decked in the colours of the rainbow to mark Pride month. As part of South Western Railway’s (SWR) support for Pride celebrations a number of stations turned a shade of rainbow, including Basingstoke. The foot

  • Tom Ralph ready to Wreck-It for Bison again

    THE Basingstoke Bison have added even more steel to their blue line with the re-signing of Tom Ralph. The 25-year-old certainly became a fans' favourite in his first season with the Herd. Ralph, who hails from Hull and came right through the