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Hospital site set for eco-friendly homes
BRYANT Homes is heading back to Basingstoke to develop a new community on the old Park Prewett hospital site. The developer has a long association with the town and was the first to open a showhouse complex on Hatch Warren when the suburb started to
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Connells retains crown
FOR the second year running, Connells' Basingstoke branch has been named the best estate agency in Hampshire in the Daily Mail UK Property Awards. Branch manager Adrian Allen was presented with the award for the Basingstoke team at a glittering ceremony
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No Joe average
JOE Pasquale is heading back to Basingstoke's The Anvil, this time with The Return of the Love Monkey tour. When Joe was voted King of the Jungle in 2004's I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!, the popularity of this comedy genius, who entertained
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Hot Brazilian talent
NO NATION is currently hotter than Brazil when it comes to cinema and music. And one of the hottest names in this explosive Brazilian new wave - Seu Jorge - comes to The Anvil for a night of inspired music, together with Radio 1 DJ and Brazilophile
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Ladies go west for guests
BASINGSTOKE Ladies' Choir will present their annual Mayor's Charity Concert at the United Reformed Church, in London Street. This year their guests are the famous Cotswold Male Voice Choir from Cheltenham. The men from Gloucestershire are no strangers
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Atkins helps in dramatic weight loss
GRAHAM King is less than half the man he used to be - and he couldn't be happier. The 39-year-old Basingstoke man has shed an incredible 20 stone - going from an enormous 34 stone 7lb and a 66-inch waist to just 14 stone 7lb. And now that he has
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The Prestige (12A)
THE career trajectory of British director Christopher Nolan has been on an impressively steady upwards progression for the past six years or so, ever since his film Memento achieved cult status in 2000. Cementing his credibility with the excellent
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Breaking and Entering (15)
AN ARCHITECT (Jude Law) chases a young burglar and delves deep into a personal marital crisis as a result.
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Resignation results in by-election date
VOTERS in the Buckskin suburb of Basingstoke will be going to the polls before Christmas after the shock resignation of one of their borough councillors. David Potter, who had represented the ward on Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council for about
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Burglars posed as police to rob OAPs
A GANG of burglars posed as policemen to raid the home of a Tadley pensioner and his 94-year-old mother. The men broke in to the house from the back and bundled 71-year-old David Nicholson into his lounge as his mother looked on. Mr Nicholson, who
