SEWAGE was accidentally pumped into a stream in Basingstoke after a leak was discovered by a member of the public.
Thames Water was informed of the emergency on Monday, after a walker noticed the treatment works in Whitmarsh Lane, near Chineham, were “pumping thousands of gallons of raw sewage into the local streams”.
Bradley Atkins, from Old Basing, told the Gazette: “There is a thick cake of sewage now choking the waterway.”
You can read the full storyin this week’s edition of The Gazette. Also in this week's paper:
- A new artisan bakery and coffee shop has opened in Old Basing, replacing an empty property.
- A petition has been launched by Cllr Tristian Robinson, to save The Mole pub in Monk Sherborne from proposed development.
- Hampshire County Council admits that the true number of Covid cases in the county is likely to be higher than reported, after a lab test results led to an 'underestimate' published this week.
- A school in Odiham has confirmed that one member of staff has tested positive for coronavirus, while a further two are self-isolating, but the school remains open to students.
- Councillors have expressed their concern about a lack of progress in the race against time to save Basingstoke's ice rink.
- A Basingstoke attacker who stabbed a drunk man during an early morning altercation has been jailed for more than eight years.
- The children of a retired factory worker have paid tribute to their father, who died suddenly at age 64, after he fell off a stretcher and didn’t respond to CPR.
- Figures show that dozens of children were homeless and in temporary accommodation in Basingstoke and Deane at the start of the coronavirus lockdown.
- PLUS: All the latest from Basingstoke Magistrates' Court.
- Two pages of your letters to the editor.
- Pictures: Basingstoke's adorable 'lockdown babies'
- Two pages of news from our communities.
- A four-page puzzle special.
- Two pages of business news.
- Two pages of entertainment news.
- Four pages of sports news. And much more!
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