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AN early career involving active service in the military as a special communications engineering officer could not prepare John Barton for the news…

RESIDENTS in an isolated part of the city have been left high and dry by news that a vital post office is set to close.

 created by the road safety experts, CrashMap, highlights the location of every collision on the roads in a given period. The detailed tool reveals not only the severity of the crash – slight, serious or fatal – but also when it took place, the number of vehicles involved, and the number of casualties reported. The data used is taken directly from official government statistics, which is based on records submitted to them by the police. It comes as no surprise that Black Dam has had ...

DRIVERS have been warned to avoid a road in Basingstoke after a road traffic incident. One motorist on the Hampshire Driver’s Facebook page warned drivers to take the M3 as a alternative route after a crash crashed on the A30 in Old Basing. The crash which took place near Hatch Lane just before 7:30am this morning (June 2) has had an effect on traffic, with the AA live traffic map shows slow moving traffic in the surrounding area. The driver who witnessed the crash said: “Accident ...

Hampshire Court Hotel is one of the best performing vaccine hubs in the UK More than two in five people in Basingstoke and Deane have received two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine, figures reveal. NHS data shows 57,941 people had received both jabs by May 23 – 41% of those aged 16 and over, based on the latest population estimates from the Office for National Statistics. Of those to have received both jabs, 51,722 were aged 40 and over – 57% of the age group. It means 6,219 people aged ...

A CAR was recovered from a hedge on the A30 north of Old Basing this afternoon - temporarily closing one lane. One police vehicle attended the scene at 2.25pm, where a Vauxhall Vectra had veered off the road, and through a hedge into a field. There was significant damage to the vehicle, which was levered onto a truck by a recovery team. Meanwhile the driver, a man in his 40s, reported minor injuries. Two police officers coned off a short section of the left lane, but our reporter on t...

A 12-YEAR-OLD boy who is originally from Old Basing has won 15,000 US dollars by catching a 26-pound, 10-ounce Chinook salmon. Finnan Murphy was announced as the 2021 Spring LOC champion, a sportsfishing event on Lake Ontario, on Sunday (May 16). Finnan was born in Basingstoke, and lived in Old Basing before moving with his family to Pittsford, New York. According to a Facebook post by Rochester Sport Fishing, which runs the boat he was on when he reeled in his prized catch, it took the...

The areas of Basingstoke and Deane with the highest and lowest vaccine take-up have been revealed. The area of Basingstoke where vaccine take-up is highest has been revealed. Data released by NHS England reveals that the areas of Oakley and Kempshott have the highest number of adults to have taken a least one dose of a Covid vaccine - with almost three quarters of the population there having had at least one dose of a Covid jab. Meanwhile, Kings Furlong and the Basingstoke Central, Black ...

Country Life Trending: A buoyant market sees rising house values with the South East of England leading the charge in the country sector. From the latest Halifax index to the RICS index and research by Knight Frank, every indicator shows that the property market is enjoying a post-lockdown boom. According to Halifax, property prices across the country have increased by an average of 8.2% since April 2020, the highest annual growth in five years, adding a theoretical £20,000 in value to th...

Where: Festival Place, Basingstoke RG21 7BA England 01256 591616 Diners said: "My partner and I visited this Saturday just gone and had a lovely meal. It was a fair bit expensive for what it was, with 2 drinks, 2 mains and 2 starters coming too £72 with added tip (which is done automatically). But it was to celebrate Exactly a year till our wedding so was a nice treat without our children!" "Due to the current situation I have not been able to eat out as much as usual. This was a plea...