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  • Police investigate after suspected arson

    POLICE are investigating after a house was reportedly set on fire in Basingstoke.  Emergency services are currently at the scene in Porter Road after the incident earlier this afternoon. A spokesman for Hampshire Police said officers were called

  • Police incident in Basingstoke

    EMERGENCY services are currently at the scene of an incident in Basingstoke.  Three police cars and a fire investigations unit are dealing with an incident on Porter Road.  Hampshire Police told The Gazette: "We were called at 3.22pm with reports

  • “His sentence is a joke”

    FORMER students of a disgraced athletics coach who preyed on schoolgirls have slammed his seven-year prison sentence. Those who Philip Banning, 68, taught at schools across Andover during the 1970s and 1980s said it was “common knowledge” that

  • £13 million funding approved for roundabout improvements

    FUNDING has been secured to start a major road improvements scheme in Brighton Hill. The £20 million scheme will increase capacity on the Brighton Hill Roundabout as well as reduce congestion at peak times. Hampshire County Council has secured

  • Vandals pour tins of paint over parked vehicle

    POLICE are appealing for witnesses after vandals poured paint over a vehicle. The vehicle was parked in Franklin Avenue, Tadley, when the vandals scratched up the existing paintwork before pouring tins of paint over it. Officers reported that