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Pupil shortage prompts action
A MAJOR review of primary school provision is to be launched in the Tadley area. Hampshire County Council is proposing the review after a study revealed that the town has a surplus of primary school places, with some schools nearly half empty. A similar
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Clinic move on hold
HEALTH authority chiefs have put the controversial proposal to move a vital after-screening breast cancer assessment clinic from Basingstoke to Winchester on hold. On Tuesday, members of the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Strategic Health Authority voted
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Bid for electronic elections
RESIDENTS in Basingstoke could be set to take part in a pilot scheme which would revolutionise the way people cast their vote in local elections. Under a radical proposal, Basingstoke council is planning to completely do away with voting papers and have
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AA takes law to the letter
A ONE-WOMAN business has got into some hot alphabet soup with the Basingstoke-based Automobile Association over the use of its distinctive trademark AA letters. Annelie Ash named her mortgage broking business "AA Mortgage Services" after her own initials
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Parents furious over school merger plans
TEACHERS and parents at a Basingstoke infant school have reacted angrily to plans of a potential merger with its junior school neighbour. Jane Ballard, headteacher of Worting Infant School, in Old Kempshott Lane, told The Gazette she fears a lowering
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Mast hidden at service station
A MOBILE phone mast has been hidden on a Shell garage forecourt in Basingstoke for at least a year - and it did not even require planning consent. Unsuspecting residents and businesses along Worting Road, Buckskin, have been living just metres from the
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Traveller site to remain closed
THE Peak Copse travellers' site off the A30, south of Basingstoke, is to remain closed. Following a secret review of gypsy and traveller services, Hampshire County Council executive member for policy and resources, Cllr Ken Thornber, is set to make the
