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  • Housing battle 'will continue'

    CAMPAIGNERS fighting plans for a housing estate on the edge of Hartley Wintney have vowed to battle on despite the Government looking set to approve it. Residents and councillors have fought for 12 years to prevent 170 houses being built on a field

  • Repairs to river

    THE Environment Agency has ordered the owners of a stretch of the River Test in Whitchurch to redo work they have carried out to repair the riverbank. Patrick and Fiona Gallagher, who own the stretch of river between The Weir and Church Street, have

  • Praise for cancer unit

    THE ground-breaking work carried out at the Pelican Cancer Foundation in Basingstoke has been praised by a Hampshire MP. Sir George Young, the MP for North West Hampshire, visited the Pelican Centre, which is based in The Ark Conference Centre, at

  • Golf day raises hole lot of cash

    A CHARITY golf day raised £2,034 for Macmillan Cancer Support. The 18-hole competition was organised by Eamonn Shiels, the captain of Weybrook Park Golf Club. One hundred and forty golfers, including members of the club and guests, took part in

  • Happy ending wanted

    BASINGSTOKE RFC complete their South West One season today, and Jim Dixon and his players are determined to end it on a positive note by defeating visiting St Ives. 'Stoke guaranteed their league status with a superb 17-0 win at Weston-super-Mare a