LAST Monday's parish council meeting heard the leader of the borough council and portfolio holder John Shaw suggest that money allocated to provide a sports barn for Chineham could be diverted and used for the replenishment of the Basingstoke Sports Centre swimming pool instead.

Parish councillors voted to strongly object to the proposal. It was felt that the existing under-provision of public sport and leisure facilities in the parish should not be given the opportunity to be held back even further.

The parish council also decided to move ahead with the provision of a modest shelter near the recently installed wheeled sport facility at Tollhouse Meadow.

A full copy of minutes can be obtained from the parish clerk Mrs Karen Ross on 474500 or via the parish website at www.chineham.gov.uk

THE mobile library will be in Chineham again on Thursday . The bus will be parked at Chineham Village Hall between 4pm and 4.20pm.

ADVANCE notice: On Friday, October 31, Christ Church, Reading Road, is holding a Praise and Pizza Party.

The event will run from 5pm until 7pm and will include lots of fun and games, pizza, loud music and worship. It is aimed at three to 11-year-olds, but all are welcome.

For further information on this or any of the church's many other events, please contact Ruth Randall on 474280.