A day out Basingstoke Festival 🎭🎉🎵 Ad At the weekend we headed to the north Hampshire town for their award winning family festival The next two weekends are full with a batch of different shows and performers coming in from all over. 🎟️ The majority of the programme is free with some ticketed performances including SABOTAGE from NoFit State which is on until Sunday 29 June. This was a party for the senses, and not quite like anything we’ve seen before, energising rush of a show with non stop

Emergency services have been called to Basingstoke train station following an incident. The British Transport Police confirmed that a person has been taken to hospital with "life-threatening injuries". More here: http://bitly.ws/D8hj | Basingstoke Gazette

230K views · 943 reactions | Covid wards are opening again as medics warn a third wave has begun in the south of England. Patients, like Luke, are younger than previously seen and are a mix of those who have been vaccinated, and those who have not had a jab. Read more: https://bbc.in/3wUzSdn | BBC Hampshire & Isle of Wight | Facebook

From intensive care to accident and emergency. These are the people on the front line in the battle against coronavirus. https://bbc.in/2VHQYvv | BBC Hampshire & Isle of Wight

18K views · 327 reactions | If you are pregnant and live in Winchester, Andover or Basingstoke you can dial the new "Labour Line". It means you don't have to keep phoning the hospital - and you get to speak to the same midwife during the early stages of labour. Women seem to like it, a lot....... | BBC Hampshire & Isle of Wight | Facebook