Youngsters attending a Park Gate pr-eschool delighted mums and dads with Christmas songs to celebrate the festive season. Two to four-year-olds at FunTime Preschool made decorations, cards and had been practising their songs since September before wowing parents in a concert. Children at the charity pre-school, which is based in St Margaret Mary Church’s hall [...]
Roman Catholic worshippers in Park Gate have been awarded funding to buy a new fence surrounding their church. Phil Hartle and Jocelyn Jones, both volunteers at St Margaret Mary Church, have successfully won a bid for £2,280 from Fareham Borough Council to help restore a fence that separates the church and its neighbouring car park in Middle [...]
Budding photographers will be displaying their artwork at an exhibition in Park Gate this Saturday, December 10. Year 10 and 11 students from Brookfield School will have their photography work displayed at Enfield’s estate agents in Bridge Road. It will be the second year the estate agency has shown the pupils’ work in an exhibition. Company [...]
Children in Park Gate will be benefitting from £1,000 funding to replace some old equipment. Funtime Pre-school has received £500 from Fareham Borough Council as well as £500 from Hampshire County Council to replace old tables at St Margaret-Mary Church hall in Middle Road. The grants will go towards replacing the existing heavy pre-school tables [...]
Staff at Segensworth Automobiles are delighted to welcome four new employees to their team as they announce their new Body Repair Workshop. Rhianon Lewis, managing director, is welcoming four new members of staff to work in the new repair centre at the company’s location in Barratt Industrial Park, Whittle Avenue, Segensworth. Paul Johnson and Mark [...]
These children swapped pencils and pens for a lesson on pointy toes and posture. Ballet is not normally on the curriculum for Park Gate Primary students. But while performers from the English National Ballet school were in town for a show, the children learned how to gracefully glide across the stage in a performance workshop. [...]
A burglar made off with jewellery after forcing open a window of a house in Park Gate during Tuesday (October 11) afternoon. The owner of the home in Botley Road went out about 2.15pm after locking and securing the property. But when he came back at 5.45pm he discovered a back window had been forced [...]
A famous author surprised pupils at Park Gate Primary School with the all new Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car – a camper van with wings. Author and screen writer Frank Cottrell Boyce visited the pupils at the school in Northmore Road to celebrate the release of his book Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again. Frank [...]
Danny Glavin has conquered Mount Kilimanjaro climb – and with only a few headaches and nosebleeds along the way. The former Park Gate Primary School teacher took to the 5,895m (19,341ft) African peak and has raised more than £8,000 for Help for Heroes in memory of his Royal Marine pal Richard Hollington. The 24-year-old returned [...]
Fareham Borough Council leader Sean Woodward said the proposed changes to take the Western Wards out of the Fareham Parliamentary Constituency are “a complete shambles”. And MP Mark Hoban said he too was “disappointed” with the proposals and he was sure that people in the borough would be concerned by them. Cllr Woodward, whose Sarisbury [...]
