EASTLEIGH'S pretty football was nullified by some ineffective finishing in Saturday's narrow 1-0 victory over Rothwell. But it proved the perfect outcome for manager Paul Doswell who was able to bank three more Dr Martens points - and save himself a small
FLEET TOWN are still hopeful that an apparent U-turn by the Football Association will not condemn them to relegation back to the Wessex League. Bizarrely, on the same day that the north Hampshire club were assured by the Dr Martens League that there would
Left-back Justin Hughes played the full 90 minutes in goal for Newport IoW in their 3-0 defeat at Folkestone Invicta, which left them fourth to bottom of the Eastern Division. Regular keeper Joe McCormack was still not 100 per cent after an ankle injury
Hampshire opener Michael Brown's maiden first class hundred set up an astonishing innings victory over Leicestershire at the Rose Bowl. Brown was out for 98 while playing against Zimbabawe last year in one of his few first class appearances for Middlesex
John Hilsum, the driving force behind Ventnor's magnificent £1m academy complex at Steephill, flew back from a business trip to Botswana to celebrate his 60th birthday - just in time to see his son, Ian, take man-of-the-match accolades against Sparsholt
THIS brief life of Chaucer opens with another of Ackroyd's characteristic and evocative descriptions of London's past. With its mixture of royal palaces and 'crowded and malodorous suburbs', the 14th century city proved to be the ideal background for
This week's best-selling hardbacks supplied by Waterstone's for week ending 1 May 2004. 1 (1) Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach To Punctuation by Lynne Truss 2 (2) Sharpe's Escape by Bernard Cornwell 3 (4) Best Friends by Jacqueline
Today's Principal Arrivals: City of Barcelona, vehicle, 0630, 203; CMA CGM Bellini, container, 1030, 207; Sunrana, bulk, 1230, 107; Lauriergracht, general, 1430, 33; Arroyofrio Dos, ro/ro, 1430, 201; APL Iris, container, pm, 205. Today's Principal Sailings
THE CREAM of the country's corporate executives are to get their hands dirty in a gruelling televised four-day team-building event on the Isle of Wight. The largest event of its kind in Europe, the Microsoft Challengers' Trophy has attracted more than
NORWICH Union, which employs hundreds of people in offices at Southampton, Eastleigh and Whiteley, has been chosen by Daimler Chrysler Services Insurance Solutions as its sole provider of motor insurance. Solutions is responsible for the branded motor
Jamaica Inn, Salisbury Playhouse FEW writers have been able to match Daphne du Maurier's talent for producing popular fiction that also stands up as quality literature. This new adaptation of her classic novel of dark deeds in deepest Cornwall likewise
The Rocky Monster Show - Eastleigh Borough Youth Theatre, The Point, Eastleigh If you like your ghouls ghastly, your jokes literary and your music monstrously stolen from every conceivable genre, then this is just your evening. Professor Fenton (phantom-masked
QE2, in the foreground, bowed out of Southampton as Cunard's flagship transatlantic carrier at the weekend. She is seen sailing past QM2, Cunard's latest ship to take the title. For more on this story click the Shipping link at the top of this page.
IT was enough to make Pop Idol star Will Young sing the praises of his dedicated fans. For they were up at the crack of dawn to make sure they had their tickets to see him headline the Eastleigh Summer Music Festival. Mother of two Alison Purchase, 40
A SMOKING ban on all South West Train routes comes into force later this month. Smokers will be stopped in their tracks on all the firm's services from May 23 in a bid to improve journeys for passengers and prevent damage to trains. Posters have gone
OCEAN VILLAGE marina hosted a new sports boat and RIB show over the May Day Bank Holiday weekend. Five times world powerboat champion Steve Curtis opened the three-day event. Over 50 exhibitors took part in the inaugural show that attracted thousands
TWO Southampton schools have been confirmed as taking part in the city's first media challenge. Year 9 students from Chamberlayne Park School and Sholing Technology College must now decide whether to prepare their own newspaper, radio programme or television
Elvis Costello & Steve Nieve, Bournemouth International Centre NOBODY does melancholy quite like Elvis Costello. He is the master of suffering when it comes to love songs - and teaming up with Steve Nieve on piano and keyboards only helps to build
John Martyn, Bournemouth Pavilion A rare appearance on the south coast for one of this country's greatest, yet never truly commercially rewarded, songwriters. This was the fourth date of 15 on John Martyn's first tour for three years and comes exactly
KEVIN PHILLIPS admitted that Chelsea's 4-0 win over Saints was a fair scoreline. The Saints striker held his hands up and accepted a share of the blame after missing a chance to give his side the lead - only for Chelsea to go straight up the other end
PAUL STURROCK took the blame for Chelsea's margin of victory - but was also critical of the way his players passed the ball. An own goal from debutant Martin Cranie saw Chelsea go ahead just before the hour mark, with Sturrock then opting to go for broke
McTINKERMAN? Well, he didn't have much choice really. Injuries to Michael Svensson, Graeme Le Saux, Rory Delap, Marian Pahars, Neil McCann, Jason Dodd and Matthew Oakley obliterated Paul Sturrock's squad to face Chelsea and changes were inevitable. Yet
HERE'S your chance to vote for your Saints player of the season for 2003/04. Voting promises be one of the closest for many years after what has been a slightly disappointing season, Saints having often promised so much but only occasionally
Sally Churchward meets an amazing woman whose tiny charity has grown to help children round the world... THERE are some people who, whether they mean to or not, make you feel incredibly humble. Dorothea Ridgway is a case in point. Whoever it is that goes
Vicki Green-Steel is given a taste of life in the 1920s after reading some handy hints in some Hampshire homecraft... BACK in the days when there were no extravagant cleaning products, housewives relied on their initiative and a good dollop of elbow grease
The cream of Hampshire's professional golfers were left with red faces for the second year running after defeat against a county amateur team at Blackmoor yesterday. The Pinflag Events Challenge Match, the second meeting between the two sides, ended with
FOR MOST PEOPLE chemistry experiments were the best part of school because when they went wrong things dramatically exploded. It seems football management's not that different. Paul Sturrock pushed his Saints class to an experiment of formations and personnel
RICHARD DUFFYcan be Pompey's answer to Welsh international Mark Delaney. That was Harry Redknapp's verdict after watching the 18-year-old defender's Premiership debut against Fulham. Duffy shone at right-back after replacing the hamstrung Linvoy Primus
HAMPSHIRE CRICKET are celebrating their best start to a season in living memory. Against Leicestershire on Saturday, Shane Warne led his side to a second successive championship victory by an innings and 18 runs. And yesterday Hampshire made it fours
NIC POTHAS hailed Hampshire Hawks' spin twins after the 31-run win against Essex yesterday that took the in-form county joint-top of the one-day league's top flight. Wicketkeeper Pothas provided the foundation to the Hawks' 184 and then had the best view
They did not get to see Shane Warne bowl to Nasser Hussain. And they only witnessed two runs from Michael Clarke. But what a bumper Rose Bowl crowd approaching 4,000 did see was another outstanding display in the field from the Warne-inspired Hampshire
Bristol City have pipped Southampton Saints to promotion to the FA Women's Premier League National Division. Their anticipated collapse against AFC Wimbledon failed to materialise yesterday as the rocking Robins miraculously recovered with a runaway 6
DAVID BANKS turned in a sparkling individual captain's performance as BAT Sports opened their defence of the ECB Southern Electric Premier League championship with a 36-run win over Bournemouth. Newly-wed Banks celebrated with a crisp 79 at Southern Gardens
Although he has no great reputation for witty one-liners, General de Gaulle made a serious point when he said - as the authors of this book recall: "How can anyone govern a country that has 246 different kinds of cheese?" With some difficulty, is the
This week's best-selling paperbacks supplied by Waterstone's for week ending 1 May 2004. 1 (1) The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time (Adult Edition) by Mark Haddon 2 (3) The Star Of The Sea by Joseph O'Connor 3 (2) Scorpia by Anthony Horowitz
LEISURE group De Vere, which owns Southampton's flagship five-star Grand Harbour Hotel, has unveiled a 28 per cent rise in profits. The group, which includes the Belfry golf complex and Brighton's Grand Hotel, said profits of £19.3m in the 26 weeks to
EASTLEIGH'S pretty football was nullified by some ineffective finishing in Saturday's narrow 1-0 victory over Rothwell. But it proved the perfect outcome for manager Paul Doswell who was able to bank three more Dr Martens points - and save himself a small
Newcomers Essex marked their county debut with style, recording a 31-21 victory over Somerset in the Tetley's County Shield Pool 4 - leaving the door ajar for Hampshire to quality for the semi-finals next week. It was a forlorn hope after a 26-21 reverse
Bashley's season ended on the flat note of a 1-0 home defeat by form side Sittingbourne, who leapfrogged them into tenth place. After flirting for so long with a top seven/eight finish, the Foresters' disappointing run of four straight defeats left them
BELEAGUERED Hampshire motorists are bracing themselves for another summer of misery on the south's roads. An ambitious £18m upgrade of Southampton's road network begins tomorrow as part of a five-year programme to improve the city's long-neglected residential
IT has provided refuge for treacherous rebels and fought closure by maverick monarchs. These are but a few of the historical happenings that have occurred since King John provided the land to build Beaulieu Abbey 800 years ago. And yesterday nearly as
THREE strikes and you're out. That could be the tough new punishment drunk yobs will face in Southampton if city bosses get their way. City chiefs are looking at new ways to clamp down on thuggish drunken behaviour by groups in the city centre. From today
THE sounds across Southampton were all the more musical thanks to schoolchildren who performed carols and hymns to mark May Day. Around 40 pupils from King Edward VI school took part in the traditional carol singing on top of the Bargate in Southampton
LUMPY custard, stringy sausages and congealed gravy are the unappetising images that spring to mind for most people at the mention of the dreaded words "school dinners". But for youngsters at an Eastleigh school the sound of the dinner bell now has pupils
AMOR promote the release of their Brave As You Are EP this month with a national tour, including a date at Southampton's Joiners. Jon Amor has been writing and performing his own material since the beginning of 2000, with bass player Mat Beable and guitarist
A WEEKEND of concerts to mark the centenary of Dvorak's death will take place at Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton, this weekend. The Skampa Quartet from Prague will be performing at the popular venue on Saturday and Sunday, accompanied by acclaimed
IT WAS the day Southampton burst with pride when the two most famous liners in the world, Queen Elizabeth 2 and her new sister Queen Mary 2, arrived in the city together for the first time. Nowhere else in the country could there have been such a spectacular
IT WAS the day Southampton burst with pride when the two most famous liners in the world, Queen Elizabeth 2 and her new sister Queen Mary 2, arrived in the city together for the first time. Nowhere else in the country could there have been such a spectacular
PAUL STURROCK will be left with an injury-ravaged squad for the remainder of the season. Michael Svensson, Graeme Le Saux, Rory Delap, Jason Dodd, Marian Pahars, Matthew Oakley and Neil McCann were all missing as Saints were thumped 4-0 by Chelsea on
Saints goalkeeper Antti Niemi conceded four goals in a game for the first time in 65 league and cup starts for the club. The Finnish star had only conceded three twice this season - at home to Everton and at Middlesbrough. Niemi has only kept three clean
The former Saints and Pompey boss with his thoughts on the Premiership... THIS has still been another smashing season for Saints. I know they haven't reached the cup final again, and they might not finish as high as eighth like they did last season, but
