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Nurse lost her job over timesheet fiddle
A NURSE with a good work record lost her job at Basingstoke hospital after it was discovered she had been fiddling timesheets to speed up payments she was due. Ann Gee, of Delibes Road, Basingstoke, pleaded guilty to 12 charges of false accounting
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Ben makes super recovery
FINALLY, the wind of change seems to be blowing for Ben Affleck. Despite winning an Oscar, along with best friend Matt Damon, for the screenplay of his first major movie, Good Will Hunting in 1997, the past few years have seen him head perilously close
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'Stoke punished
St Ives 25pts Basingstoke 17 BATTLING Basingstoke disappointingly spurned a victory that was within their grasp at St Ives. The hosts' penal punishment of visiting mistakes and stout defence helped them wrestle back the success that Jim Dixon's
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Bison impress with victory
Basingstoke Bison 4 Cardiff Devils 3 THE Basingstoke Bison continued their recent winning run with an impressive victory over visiting Cardiff Devils, which saw the sides swap places in the Elite League. In an entertaining, hard-hitting game on
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Town prepare for cup with a winning performance
Basingstoke Town 2, Bedford Town 0 BASINGSTOKE warmed up for next Saturday's big day in the FA Cup second round against Aldershot with an impressive all-round display against Bedford Town at the Camrose, writes John Gray. In fact, the only reason
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Flooding misery
WET weather brought misery to borough residents when torrential rain turned roads into rivers and made muddy lakes of their gardens. Heavy downpours throughout the weekend left Basingstoke's Old Kempshott Lane and Kempshott Grove, in Buckskin, flooded
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Meat cleaver-wielding robber strikes again
A ROBBER armed with a meat cleaver has struck for a third time in eight days. The latest incident was at The Local off-licence at Wessex Close, in Kings Furlong, Basingstoke. Just before 9pm on Wednesday, November 22, a man wearing a scarf around
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Let there be light
SPARKLING lights and seasonal entertainment transformed the borough into a festive fiesta at this year's official Christmas switch-on events. The first snowfall from a giant tree turned Basingstoke town centre into a winter wonderland on Friday evening
