Bounty Road News Today

As the main political parties gear up for another General Election, here are the histories of the Conservative, Labour, and Liberal parties.

HERE are some of the latest planning applications submitted to Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council in the week beginning February 13

THE water company for Basingstoke has seen a 50 per cent increase in leaks and bursts across its supply area, with more than 20 leaks reported in…

MILLIONS of litres of water are thought to have been lost through a leak which has not been fixed despite being reported five months ago.

“WHY are the 1960s looked upon as the ‘Swinging ’60s’?” is a question often asked to us older ones by the younger generation.

There is plenty of evidence that people were inhabiting our landscape well before the Iron Age.

AFTER seeing the cobblestones in the television series Coronation Street, a reader of my column asked if there was ever a similar road in…

ITS EASY to forget that the horse was hugely important to many people well into the last century. In his 70s, the clothing pioneer and entrepreneur Thomas Burberry – known to his friends as Old Tom– rode every day between his business in Basingstoke and his home in Hook. He only stopped after a serious fall. Horses were second nature to him: he had grown up on a family farm near Dorking in Surrey. His namesake father was steward to the Duke of Norfolk. In his early years in Basingstok...