Q&A with Sir George Young
SIR George Young is the Member of Parliament for North West Hampshire.
View ArticleQ&A with Basingstoke Area Youth Orchestra conductor John Fuller
JOHN Fuller is the conductor of Basingstoke Area Youth Orchestra, which is part of the Hampshire Music Service, and he has conducted the orchestra since 1994.
View ArticleQ&A with Evergreen Consulting founder Robert Sharpe
ROBERT Sharpe is the founder of Evergreen Consulting – an electric vehicle consulting business which helps businesses and individuals save up to £4,000 per vehicle a year in fuel costs.
View ArticleQ&A with Pelican Cancer Foundation chief executive Sarah Crane
SARAH Crane is chief executive of the Pelican Cancer Foundation. This Basingstoke charity is dedicated to curing cancer, and improving the quality of life for patients with pelvic area cancers and...
View ArticleQ&A with historian Robert Brown
AS The Gazette’s former historian, Robert Brown has written many articles that have provided a fascinating insight into Basingstoke’s past.
View ArticleQ&A with Cinderella star Sarah Louise Day
SARAH Louise Day, who was born and brought up in Basingstoke, will play Cinderella in this year’s Gazette-sponsored Anvil pantomime. She is also the show’s choreographer.
View ArticleQ&A with Everest Community Academy principal Nick Price
NICK Price is the principal of Everest Community Academy, in Popley, Basingstoke.
View ArticleQ&A with Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate Kit Malthouse
KIT Malthouse is the Conservative Party’s prospective parliamentary candidate for North West Hampshire for the 2015 general election.
View ArticleQ&A with St Michael's Hospice chief executive David Monkman
DAVID Monkman was born in Yorkshire. He qualified as a nurse in the 1970s and worked all over the country whilst he was in the NHS.
View ArticleQ&A with singer/songwriter Rob Hayes
ROB Hayes is a fundraising local singer and songwriter.
View ArticleQ&A with UKIP Parliamentary candidate Alan Stone
ALAN Stone is the Basingstoke Parliamentary candidate for UKIP in this year’s General Election, which will take place on May 7.
View ArticleQ&A with outgoing Gazette editor Mark Jones
Mark Jones has been editor of The Gazette for 13 years, and has worked at the newspaper for 18 years.
View ArticleQ&A with chocolate entrepreneur Mike Peates
MIKE Peates, who spent 25 years in the world of banking and finance, is the founder of a successful start-up business called Owow Chocolates, based in Old Basing.
View ArticleQ&A with Gazette angling columnist Peter Howes
PETER Howes writes the angling column in The Gazette’s sports section.
View ArticleQ&A with Mayor of Basingstoke and Deane Roger Gardiner
ROGER Gardiner is the current Mayor of Basingstoke and Deane and a Conservative borough councillor for the Pamber and Silchester ward.
View ArticleQ&A with Hook charity founder Gerrie Jordan
GERRIE Jordan has been working with victims of domestic abuse for 20 years.
View ArticleQ&A with BCoT's Tom Quante
TOM Quante works for Basingstoke College of Technology (BCoT), which offers full-time courses, apprenticeships and part-time/leisure courses to 14-year-olds and over in the local area.
View ArticleQ&A with Dr Sam Hullah
DR SAM Hullah is a GP partner at Crown Heights Medical Centre in Basingstoke.
View ArticleQ&A with former Buckskin councillor Robert Taylor
ROBERT Taylor is a former borough councillor for Buckskin.
View ArticleQ&A with former Basingstoke Town star Sergio Torres
SERGIO Torres is an Argentinean footballer and something of a cult hero at Basingstoke Town, where he made his name.
View ArticleQ&A with environmental campaigner Ruth Jarman
RUTH Jarman moved to Hartley Wintney 16 years ago when she and her husband were expecting their first child.
View ArticleQ&A with Deputy Mayor Anne Court
ANNE was first elected to serve the Kempshott community in 1995. She is currently Deputy Mayor for Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council and due to become Mayor in May this year.
View ArticleQ&A with green campaigner Martin Heath
MARTIN Heath is the co-founder of the Basingstoke Energy Co-operative and the Hampshire Renewable Energy Co-operative and is also a member of the Basingstoke Transition Network.
View ArticleQ&A with Glen Harvey
GLEN Harvey is the leader of Basingstoke Rock Choir which meets every Thursday at Cranbourne Business and Enterprise College.
View ArticleQ&A with Sharon Glen
SHARON Glen has been The Gazette’s community news correspondent for Rotherwick for a few decades.
View ArticleQ&A with Steven Edney
STEVEN Edney is chairman of Basingstoke Gang Show, which presents a biennial show in The Haymarket.
View ArticleQ&A with Kev Munday
KEV Munday is a 28-year-old professional artist based in Basingstoke.
View ArticleThought for the week - Andy Taylor
“TASTE and see that the Lord is good.” These words from Psalm 34 remind us that we can do all the intellectual research we like around whether the God of the Bible exists, and what sort of God he is;...
View ArticleQ&A with Clive Pinder
CLIVE Pinder is the Conservative candidate for the Basing ward at the Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council elections in May.
View ArticleQ&A with Councillor Nigel Pierce
COUNCILLOR Nigel Pierce is one of two councillors that represent the Buckskin ward on Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council after being elected to the seat in May.
View ArticleQ&A with Basingstoke powerlifter Jean Maton
JEAN Maton is one of Basingstoke’s top sportswomen, having won many titles at the annual Sports Awards held in the town.
View ArticleQ&A with Rodney Robbins
RODNEY Robbins is a Great Place to Work Lead at the Sainsbury’s depot in Houndmills.
View ArticleQ&A with Miss Basingstoke Nicola Ascroft
NICOLA Ascroft, this year’s Miss Basingstoke, came runner-up in the Miss Hampshire contest in Winchester in March. The 21-year-old lives in Hargreaves Close, Popley, with her pug Poppy and has lived...
View ArticleQ&A with The Plough Inn chef James Durrant
JAMES Durrant is the chef patron at The Plough Inn in Longparish. The dad appeared last year on BBC2’s Great British Menu for which he was crowned the winner of the main course at a banquet to honour...
View ArticleQ&A with filmmaker Mark Brennan
MARK Brennan is a 33-year-old filmmaker based in Basingstoke.
View ArticleQ&A with Iain Cameron from St Michael's Hospice
IAIN Cameron is the director of income generation at St Michael’s Hospice, in Aldermaston Road, Basingstoke, and has lived in the town for 35 years.
View ArticleQ&A with Asda Community Life Champion Julie Gary
JULIE Gary is the Community Life Champion at the Asda supermarket in Brighton Hill.
View ArticleQ&A with Hampshire Chamber's David Kemshall
DAVID Kemshall is membership manager and office manager for Hampshire Chamber’s north Hampshire office.
View ArticleQ&A with Lady Louisa Portal, High Sheriff of Hampshire
LADY Louisa Portal is the current High Sheriff of Hampshire.
View ArticleQ&A with Kala The Arts artistic director Sushmita Pati
SUSHMITA Pati is the artistic director of Kala The Arts, a dance company based at Basingstoke College of Technology in Worting Road, Basingstoke.
View ArticleQ&A with Judith Charmer
JUDITH Charmer is the fund manager for the North Hampshire Medical Fund – a charity based at Basingstoke hospital.
View ArticleQ&A with Jonathan Glen, chairman of Hampshire County Council
JONATHAN Glen is currently chairman of Hampshire County Council. He has represented his home village of Rotherwick as a Hart District councillor for 23 years and as county councillor for 17 years, and...
View ArticleQ&A with the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Community Foundation's Toni Shaw
TONI Shaw was born on the Isle of Sheppey into a large family. After a career in the Women’s Royal Air Force and marketing and communications, she moved into the voluntary sector.
View ArticleQ&A with entrepreneur Matthew Larcome
MATTHEW Larcome is an award-winning entrepreneur, author and organiser of business-to-business shows.
View ArticleWhitchurch councillor resigns after 'giving up on politics'
A WHITCHURCH borough councillor has resigned from the Liberal Democrats after “giving up on politics”.
View ArticleThought for the Week with Pastor Bob Smith
I AM REMINDED about a drunken man who was on his hands and knees under a lamp post looking for his lost keys.
View ArticleQ&A with Basingstoke racing driver Chris Mohan
CHINEHAM saloon driver Chris Mohan runs his own team, Chris Mohan Racing, in the Maximumgroup.net VAG Trophy Championship.
View ArticleQ&A with Adrian Braine
ADRIAN Braine is entrepreneur in residence for The SETsquared Partnership incubation hub based at the Innovation Centre on Basing View.
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