THE roads this morning around Basingstoke are becoming heavy with traffic with an accident reported on the M3 between Junction 7 and Junction 8. Live updates here

A RESIDENT has described how he thought a bomb had exploded after a van collided with a gas main this morning.

FAMILIES were evacuated in the early hours of this morning (Sunday) following a serious gas leak.

A MAN has been arrested after a van collided with a gas main, causing families to evacuate their homes in the early hours of this morning (Sunday).

FAMILIES were evacuated in the early hours of this morning (Sunday) following a serious gas leak.

THE roads this morning around Basingstoke are becoming heavy with traffic with an accident reported on the M3 between Junction 7 and Junction 8. Live updates here

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A WARNING has been issued following a report of a man offering roofing work in Overton this week.

A RESIDENT has described how he thought a bomb had exploded after a van collided with a gas main this morning.

FAMILIES were evacuated in the early hours of this morning (Sunday) following a serious gas leak.

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This week I must start with a big thank you to the Elstree and Borehamwood Rotary Club, founded in the 1940s, who treated about 200 of us old residents to a free screening at our local Reel Cinema along with food treats. It is a great idea and I know...

A mother has painted a series of portraits influenced by the homeless people she meets on the streets each week.

A documentary showed the gripping moment two violent moped muggers were ambushed by police in a park last year.

A private school has appointed a new headmistress.

Four High Wycombe men have been charged after a driver was allegedly stabbed in the head and hands following a car crash.

A sex attacker who targeted a High Wycombe woman on a dating app has been jailed.

A young woman was grabbed by a stranger in a “frightening” broad daylight attack in Beaconsfield.

THE best and worst performing secondary schools have been revealed based on this summer's GCSE exams.

This week the Bucks Free Press asked our readers where they could get the best burger in the county, and the votes flooded in like they never have before. From cheesy beef burgers and bacon heavy toppings, here’s the 5 best as voted for by you.

Supermarket Sainsbury's will stop selling fireworks this year.

Campaigners gathered outside Kingston Council on Tuesday night as part of a last-minute fight to stop changes to the council’s constitution that would see more than a 2,000 per cent increase in the number of signatures required for certain petition...

More and more patients in south west London are waiting for longer than four hours to be treated in A&E according to new statistics released by the NHS.

A former teacher who committed a string of child sex offences sentenced for numerous child sex offences.

The county council has been forced to apologise after an administration mix up with a website address directed parents of children with special needs to a porn site. 

This week I must start with a big thank you to the Elstree and Borehamwood Rotary Club, founded in the 1940s, who treated about 200 of us old residents to a free screening at our local Reel Cinema along with food treats. It is a great idea and I know...

A horse that was found in a ditch has been rescued by firefighters.

Occasionally some of us welcome splinters. It seems it is not ok to have a reasoned debate about any issue in the current climate: You are either far left or far right in your political leanings, ‘phobic’ when criticising any other subset of soci...

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WOULD you tell your identical twin brother about years of sexual abuse at the hands of your mother if, mercifully, he had suffered amnesia?

A BUSY main road was closed while emergency services responded to a chair on fire.

A WAITER saw red when he ran out of a restaurant with a knife to confront a motorist in a row over parking.

A RANGE of “invisible” knitted jumpers are the focus of a new photography book.

CREATING safer routes for schools will be debated by city councillors next week after more than a thousand parents supported a campaign.