Basingstoke, England News

The firm, which is a NEC Premier Partner, based in Dummer, scooped the award at the 2013 NEC EMEA Partner conference held in Dubai.

The A 360,000 project will include four new pedestrian crossings with refuge islands, in London Road, to help pupils at The Costello School cross safely.

A GANG member stuffed more than 100 wraps of class A drugs inside his body in a bid to fool police after a drugs raid in Basingstoke.

Former Leeds United defender Clarke Carlisle has decided to hang-up his boots after a16-year professional career.

Paul Hughes, of Winterthur Way, was in the dock at Basingstoke Magistrates' Court where he pleaded guilty to one count of indecent exposure and asked for four similar offences to be taken into consideration.

Jamie Chandler, 23, of Montserrat Road, Popley, was sentenced to 20 months behind bars after he threw pint glasses while at The Lamb Inn, in Hackwood Road, shortly after midnight on April 6. Winchester Crown Court heard that Chandler, who has 27 previous convictions dating back to 2005, had been drinking with friends in the busy pub.

WELL done: A great week for fundraising in the village, with the church quiz raising A 961 for church funds, and the May Fair raising A 2,355 for the school.

BASINGSTOKE Civil Service Retirement Fellowship: Their next meeting takes place at 10am, on Wednesday, June 5, at Brookvale Village Hall, with a talk from Carol Watson on "Norway in Summer". SWITCH Hampshire: Is a collective energy switching service to enable local gas and electricity consumers to combine their purchasing power and get a better ... (more)

You can't exactly pop to Preston Candover for a quick pint, but it is well worth a drive through beautiful country lanes to visit the Purefoy Arms.

DOZENS of community groups in a Basingstoke suburb are under threat of closure after it was announced that the entire committee running the local community centre is stepping down.

Faced with a two-hour commute home from the capital at the end of an eight-hour working day, the vacancies signs lighting the front of hotels and bed and breakfasts are undoubtedly inviting to any weary traveller.

Basingstoke charity RadCan, which was set up three years ago to raise funds for a radiotherapy facility at Basingstoke hospital , hosted a five-kilometre walk through the town's parks.

A HOUSING estate in Basingstoke is being used as a "rat-run" because bus gates which were meant to be installed years ago have not been put in place.

The new group, which runs at Aldworth Science College , in Western Way, has 17 members made up of Beavers and Cubs, who made their promise at a special ceremony.

Ashley Emery, 29, was mixing chemicals in a bucket for the manufacture of explosives when the explosion happened in a building at the Atomic Weapons Establishment, in Aldermaston, leaving him with burns on his left arm and face.

The incident was one of three to take place in four days in Kings Furlong, Basingstoke.

A MAN has been charged with producing cannabis with a potential street value of A 10,000 after the police found plants in a house.

Operation Enigma will see officers visit landowners to offer advice on securing their property, increase patrols in areas considered vulnerable to raves, and share more information.

The A 360,000 project will include four new pedestrian crossings with refuge islands, in London Road, to help pupils at The Costello School cross safely.

THOUSANDS of schoolchildren will walk to school this week as part of a national campaign to encourage parents to leave their car at home.