DE LA Rue, the Hampshire-based cash and cards systems group, was driven into the red last year after a massive re-organisation of business hit the company with a £50 million bill. The group, which is a share-holder in the Camelot lottery company, reported
AN exercise class with a difference sees Hampshire mums using their newborn babies as weights. During the alternative workout, the first of its kind in the country, the new mothers hold their babies while they carry out a range of exercises. The fitness
POLICE took the unusual step today of ordering an overturned lorry at a motorway interchange to be cut up after attempts to right it failed. The huge consignment of apple pies the DAF truck was carrying came to a exceedingly sticky end at the Pitmore
AN INTERNET romance turned to horror when a couple who met on the WorldWide Web were set upon in a Southampton shopping precinct as they enjoyed a takeaway meal. American teenager Maya Gruner, who came to Britain two weeks ago to meet her new Southampton
THREE years after having victory wrenched from his grasp in two races, Gavin Lee believes he is ready to challenge again for an elusive TT victory in the Isle of Man. The road-racing ace from Netley Abbey near Southampton begins a two-pronged bid for
ENGLAND captain Martin Johnson has thrown his weight behind a top award for a Hedge End company. The rugby union international handed over the prestigious Investors in People plaudit to John Eyre, manager of the Hedge End depot of the Golden Wonder Snack
FORMER Take That heartthrob Gary Barlow is to top the bill at the Power In The Park V free concert in Southampton. Gary - currently preparing to release his second solo album - will take to the stage on Southampton Common before he goes out on his national
A TEENAGER has told of his horror after realising he had been shot with a high-powered hunting gun. Robert Fay gritted his teeth and fought back the pain when a sniper opened fire as he walked home from school with two pals. With blood pouring down his
SEX swap computer manager Andrew Lynall told an industrial tribunal he was sacked after telling his boss he wanted to be called Eleanor. The 47-year-old handed New Forest company director John Freeman a memo entitled Transition Gender Role, informing
A RARE young Monkjack deer was this morning pulled to safety this morning from Southampton Water after an exhausting swim from the New Forest. Two intrepid onlookers standing on Town Quay spotted the struggling youngster animal and alerted the RSPCA before
IWAN THOMAS will seek one final opinion to determine whether he can run this summer. Southampton's European and Common-wealth 400 metres champion is looking to Swindon's Graham Holloway, one of the country's leading orthopaedic surgeons, for a definitive
ON-SONG Melanie Purkiss has taken another giant step towards her European dream. The Team Solent sprinter notched a legal personal best of 23.80 seconds in the women's semi-finals at the Inter-Counties Championships in Bedford - well inside the the 24.05
