Grease is the word
It is the ultimate High School story of teenage love lost and found and it has kept audiences tapping their feet and singing along throughout the Seventies, Eighties, Nineties and into the 21st Century. Yes,...
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Anaerobic Digester Site Tours
People living in and around Dummer, Hampshire (RG23) are being invited to a special open day to discover for themselves how a new facility is turning food waste into renewable energy for 3,000 homes....
The Anaerobic Digester at Farleigh Wallop
Now that construction has started of the AD facility, just over the M3 bridge on the road to Farleigh Wallop, I thought it might be appropriate to review the position. There can be no...
Basingstoke Solar Farm
At the end of April there was a public exhibition at the Community Centre by a company called Belectric, which is proposing a huge solar panel farm around the anaerobic digester, over the M3...
Recycling in Hatch Warren
Many of our readers will have seen the article in the Basingstoke Gazette regarding the recycling of tetra packs, plastic yoghurt pots etc. These can now be recycled and there is a collection point...
What’s it like being the Mayor & Mayoress?
Dan and Julie Putty talk to the Rabbiter The last Thursday in May saw the annual Mayor making ceremony for Basingstoke & Deane Borough Council. The Mayor is the senior citizen of Basingstoke and...
Basingstoke Local Plan
The Borough’s Local Plan currently proposes up to 5,200 homes to be built to the south and west of Basingstoke, completely overwhelming the local infrastructure. There is a risk that this could be increased...
David Allard of BBC South Today is Hatch Warren resident
Not many people know that a man whose face is a familiar sight on BBC TV’s South Today programme has lived in Hatch Warren since 2003. As a Senior Broadcast Journalist for BBC News,...
Snowdon Horseshoe
There is a team of us from Basingstoke, myself, Lorraine Stewart, Pete Styles, Gail Styles, Sean Cummins, Russell Beaven, Martyn Pattison, Greg Ellingford, Andy Butler, Tom Hartgill. We are climbing the Snowdon Horseshoe, which...
Hatch Warren Runners celebrate their 1st Birthday
On 6th March 2014 Hatch Warren Runners (HWR) celebrated its 1st Birthday. To celebrate the occasion HWR volunteered all positions at the local Basingstoke parkrun which had an attendance of 400 people, HWR laid...
