VISITORS are being urged to stay away from Basingstoke hospital as staff try to isolate a norovirus outbreak. About 23 patients are suffering from the virus - which causes vomiting and diarrhoea - and they are being cared for in two isolation wards in
WELL-LOVED film critic Barry Norman will arrive at Reading Concert Hall on Friday, January 25, at 7.30pm. During Barry Norman's Favourite Films, he will show some of his best-loved movie scenes and talk about the stars of silver screen, most of whom
CONSULTANTS, doctors and nurses swapped their hospital theatre for a town centre theatre as they put on their annual panto. More than 400 people turned up at The Haymarket to see The Sound of Mucus - a medical twist on the famous Rodgers and Hammerstein
SHERFIELD-on-Loddon Parish Council has loaned £8,000 to the village hall, in order to help pay for repairs to contaminated water pipes. The pipework alone is estimated to cost £14,500. Bruce Batting, chairman of the parish council that recently
CHILDREN from Basingstoke have planted hornbeam, rowan and cherry trees as part of a national project. The Wildlife Watch group planted 30 trees, donated by the Wildlife Trust, on a site near Old Basing. The Tree For All project aims to get children
NINE little winners have received their prizes for being cute kids at a presentation ceremony in Basingstoke's Festival Place. The winners, runners-up and proud mums, dads and other relatives turned up at the prize-giving ceremony for the Cute Kids
