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Your blood makes a difference

Your blood makes a difference

4:40pm Thursday 8th January 2009

HEALTHY people in Basingstoke are being urged to make a New Year’s resolution to regularly donate a pint of the red stuff.

Rival markets set to trade in Whitchurch

4:26pm Thursday 8th January 2009

TWO markets in Whitchurch are set to go head-to-head for the first time tomorrow.

Big freeze grips north Hampshire

2:30pm Thursday 8th January 2009

TEMPERATURES plummeted to minus 10 this week as the big freeze continued to grip north Hampshire.

Dog gets in a prickle rescuing hedgehogs

Maybe the dog

1:40pm Thursday 8th January 2009

DOGS are traditionally known as man’s best friend – but one Basingstoke canine has made unlikely chums with hedgehogs.

The cost of growing old

The cost of growing old

1:19pm Thursday 8th January 2009

COPING with one of the UK’s sharpest rises in elderly patients will soon be a key priority for staff at Basing-stoke hospital.

Young boozers face ongoing crackdown

PC Mark Pullman and PCSO Darrel May with alcohol confiscated in Tadley on New Year’s Eve

11:20am Thursday 8th January 2009

UNDER-AGE drinkers faced a sober New Year as police officers mounted a crackdown on the streets of Tadley.

Extremists hijack radio's website

Astrid Haigh-Smith with a computer showing the Radio Basingstoke website, which was defaced by extremists

10:20am Thursday 8th January 2009

EXTREMISTS have launched a cyber attack against an online Basingstoke radio station – replacing website pages with terrorist propaganda.

Give your tree a green goodbye

Councillor Anne Court with a Christmas tree ready for recycling

1:30pm Wednesday 7th January 2009

A CLIMATE change champion is reminding residents in Basingstoke and Deane that they should recycle their Christmas trees.

School closes due to broken boiler

10:29am Wednesday 7th January 2009

PUPILS at a junior school in north Hampshire got an unexpected day off when the school's boiler broke down.

Hampshire police are UK's top gay-friendly force

10:00am Wednesday 7th January 2009

HAMPSHIRE Constabulary has been named as the UK's top gay-friendly police force.

Redundancies after M&S reveals big Christmas sales slump

Myleene Class was one of the many famous faces used to promote Marks and Spencer in 2008

9:19am Wednesday 7th January 2009

MARKS and Spencer today announced it was cutting more than 1,200 jobs.

Hampshire b-b-braces itself through coldest winter weather in a decade

9:12am Wednesday 7th January 2009

HAMPSHIRE is shivering in the midst the coldest weather in a decade, experts have revealed.

Man attacked in Basingstoke street

3:48pm Tuesday 6th January 2009

A MAN was knocked to the ground and attacked in the early hours of New Year’s day.

Police put handheld computers on trial

3:30pm Tuesday 6th January 2009

POLICE officers in Hampshire will be issued with handheld computers in a bid to cut bureaucracy and keep them on the beat longer.

Store repeats grand charitable effort

1:30pm Tuesday 6th January 2009

A SHOP in Old Basing has served up £1,000 as part of a nationwide effort to help a children’s charity.



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