Peter Brickell News Today

A head and a torso of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s scarecrow, that was vandalised in Old Basing, have been found.

A FAMILY has been left distraught after their father’s ashes were lost by a care home clearing out their mother’s room after she died. Great-grandmother Rita Dunnett died in Basingstoke hospital on January 20 after catching Covid at Marnel Lodge in Popley which had declared an outbreak at the time. The 83-year-old had kept her husband Samuel’s ashes in an urn in the wardrobe at Marnel Lodge after he died in 2013, and her wishes were for her own ashes to be scattered with his in Gree...