BRITISH American Tobacco's UK operations plant in Southampton has announced a second year of support for local students planning to study engineering and science subjects at university. The Millbrook-based operation has set aside around £100,000 over
A FURIOUS Hampshire family have criticised theatre bosses for a blunder that cost dozens of 70s music fans their seats for a musical dedicated to the decade fashion forgot. Lisa Taylor, from Southampton, and seven relatives are angry with the city's Mayflower
THE crisis between striking workers and management at Southampton shipbuilder Vosper Thornycroft deepened today as bosses suspended staff taking industrial action over a huge pay row. All 630 union members involved in a programme of 24-hour stoppages
ZIP-a-Dee-Do-Dah, Zip-a-Dee-Day, Mickey Mouse is on his way! The most famous mouse in the world, with his crew of cartoon characters, sails into Southampton next month on the 83,000-ton Disney Wonder, one of the most spectacular and lavish cruise ships
HE MAY be cute and furry now, but in three years' time Marwell Zoo's latest arrival will be able to knock your block off with a single swipe. But, despite being born three months ago at the zoo, this loveable jaguar cub has yet to be named. He will go
TRIBUTES flowed into Hampshire today as the South mourned the death of one of Britain's greatest inventors, Sir Christopher Cockerell. Sir Christopher, the man who invented the hovercraft at Cowes on the Isle of Wight and lived for many years at Hythe
CAR parking charges in the New Forest will be slashed as a first step towards scrapping the fees. Motorists will be charged just £1 to park all day - and drivers leaving their cars for shorter peri-ods will have to pay only 50p. The new price structure
EASTLEIGH and District's AC mid-week open on Stoneham saw Kev Hatcher collect £150 for winning off The Golden Peg with number seven. In recent weeks anglers fishing Eastleigh matches have been paying £1 per person into a pool and the first angler to win
BEFORE saddling Salford Express in Saturday's Vodafone Derby, Hampshire trainer David Elsworth has a mission closer to home - trying to win the Southern Daily Echo Handicap at Goodwood tomorrow evening. That grand old campaigner Law Commission represents
SOUTH-Coast-based discount women's fashion chain New Look nimbly sidestepped the high street slow-turn last year as launches of footwear and lingerie lines kept shoppers spending. Fast-growing New Look, which prides itself on selling high fashion at cheap
THE battle to save a Hampshire hospital has been taken to the top of the world by a Gosport adventurer. A chance remark between a Royal Hospital Haslar supporter and a mountaineer led to a campaign banner being flown from the summit of Mount Everest.
WINCHESTER is basking in an unprecedented tourism boom which is bringing in a whopping £120 million a year. Since 1996 the industry has grown by 21 per cent according to research commissioned by the city council. At least 3,120 people in the district
SAFETY has come at a price for Saints fans who face big admission increases next season. Children's seats are being frozen at £8 but adults will be asked to pay £3 more per match - a rise of around 15 per cent. Saints have tried to take some of the sting
