Basingstoke

with GMTV at the time to release three lions from a French circus and return them to South Africa.

This was all taking place in the ASDA in Basingstoke.

And as much as I say we need to support local journalism, this article did miss out some key facts here.

So thank God the Basingstoke Gazette was on the scene to give us more context.

The Italian singer was visiting the supermarket as part of his tour of 22 stores to raise funds for the Born Free Foundation.

The writer writes, I have to admit, it's not every day you get to interview and sign the chest of an ex-Armani model.

7.26 is the time.

Hannah's in Basingstoke to talk reform, to talk reform donations.

Do you find it a bit fishy? Good morning.

Good morning.

Do you know this? I can't even remember who sent me this.

But it was just brilliant because whoever you were, you pointed me to Alma Elizabeth Deutscher, who was born in Basingstoke in England.

She's a young composer and conductor.

And as you say, I really like her attitude as to her goal in composing music as expressed in words in the introduction to this piece.

Welcome to Too Orangey for Crows, the podcast where we rewind the reels back to the late '80s and early '90s when shoulder pads were big, popcorn was cheap, and the Cannon Cinema in Basingstoke was the place to be.

My name's Jeff.

And mine's Dave.

So, uh, yeah.

What a ride.

Um, so as always, we start the, the cast off talking about the Cannon Cinema in Basingstoke.

Um, and for this cast, we're gonna talk about the outside.

We talked a lot about the inside.

That was not just a religious decision; it also consolidated Malcolm’s power by tying local lords to a central authority.

An interesting source about Margaret’s religious reforms is the account in The Life of Saint Margaret that describes her sending monks from the English monastery of Basingstoke to Edinburgh.

It illustrates how she used spiritual ties as diplomatic tools, inviting foreign clerics into Scotland to reinforce loyalty.

But we must question how much of these accounts are colored by later ecclesiastical agendas, especially considering that the saintly status Margaret achieved was granted almost two hundred years after her death.

The distribution patterns also reveal a pattern of accumulation.

Larger hoards tend to be located at market sites like Droitwich or Basingstoke, indicating that trade fairs served as points where wealth was deposited before being spent or stored, while smaller personal hoards scattered in rural landscapes hint at local insecurity and a need for portable wealth.

From a political point of view, every coin that rolled out of a mint carried more than silver.

It was an edible proclamation of legitimacy.