LYMINGTON'S Nigel Shoat and teenager Sam Deathe took top honours during the second of the two annual Portland Breakwater competitions. Shoat won the overall match, while 14-year-old Deathe from Southampton captured the junior section, landing a 3lb 1.50oz
SOUTHERN Water is forging ahead with a £1m plan to end a potential health hazard in part of the New Forest. Residents waiting for their homes to equipped with mains drainage have been promised that work will start later this year. People living in the
BASINGSTOKE amateur Ben Cummings has put in a strong case for being "thrown in at the deep end" by Hampshire. The English Championship quarter-finalists has emerged as a late candidate for the Hampshire team when they defend the EGU-Daily Telegraph South
Kevin Saunders admits he has a major task on his hands this week trying to reel in PGA South order of merit leader Gavin Lingard in the last event of the season. The Royal Jersey Open, which began today and ends on Thursday, is Saunders' last chance to
FORMER Saints youth development officer Bob Higgins has taken up the reins at Bashley following the shock resignation of Derek Binns just seven games into the new season. Binns opted to stand down as first-team manager as Bash picked through the wreckage
A FISHERMAN has died after the boat he was in capsized just off the coast of Gosport. The man, who has not been named, was fishing a mile south of Gilkicker Point with two other men when they ran into difficulties raising the fishing nets. According to
THE GOSPORT Museum building celebrates its centenary this year and an appeal has been made for old pictures - of the interior. Before becoming the town museum, the building was the former library and also housed the old grammar school before it moved
THIS has not been a good year for Southampton's cycling clubs, but results took a turn for the better in Bournemouth Women's CA annual time trial for mixed teams at Ringwood, where city-based clubs filled the top two placings. Brian Greensmith and Penny
TEST Valley council bosses are to ask for an assurance over the future of Romsey Hospital in their response to a draft government report on the shake-up to health care management in the region. Their urgent request comes after they were asked to respond
TECHNOLOGY-based companies in the region are being offered the chance to head to the home of new media in a British Trade Mission to San Francisco and Silicon Valley in November. Only a few places remain for the trade mission which is being offered by
Southampton Docks is celebrating a quarter of a century of playing a vital role in one of the UK economy's major sectors. The city's docks is the centre for the nation's multi-million-pound vehicle import and export handling trade acting as a vital international
THE new football season has not just heralded the arrival of a new football stadium for Saints - but its own dedicated radio station. The Saint is owned by the club and commercial radio company Radio First and broadcasts seven days a week on Sky Digital
WE now have to wait another week for Saints' first league win of the season and it will, no doubt, be a long wait. I was all geared up for Sunday's game, looking forward to pay-back time for a certain manager and up until half time I was still feeling
America has been devastated by a wave of terrorist attacks on major political and industrial targets, prompting mass evacuations in the US and precautionary evacuations in London. Two planes - reportedly a Boeing 737 and a 767- crashed into New York's
A HAMPSHIRE businessman, branded 'a boss from hell', has been jailed for seven months for ripping off a former employee of a court settlement. Maxine Brooks had been awarded £31,500 in October 1997 after successfully suing Paul Doney for sexual harassment
DETECTIVES hunting the killer of a man murdered on Southampton's streets today renewed an appeal for the public's help. Police said residents of the inner city area, where the fatal stabbing took place a week ago today, had provided vital information
IT was not so long ago that there were fears that the Southern Counties Youth Band Championships could march off the Eastleigh map. But the future is looking bright again for a popular contest which draws young musicians from across the south coast and
CHRIS Olden's blistering burst of late-summer form continued with victory in the New Forest Marathon. It's been quite a month for the on-song New Forest Runner, who finished second overall behind clubmate Lee Rodriguez in the Road Runners' 10 series and
A MOTORIST miraculously walked away from the wreckage of his car after it rolled over three times before catching fire. The driver was travelling along the M27 towards Portsmouth when it is thought he lost control of his red Ford Escort just before junction
A MUM hit out today after her ex-partner was jailed for just 15 months for dangling their screaming baby over the balcony of their Hampshire flat. Former heroin addict Alexander "Sandy" Farr had downed a potentially-lethal combination of lager and diazepam
RAIL passengers travelling between Eastleigh, Netley and Portsmouth will be on the buses this week. Railtrack will be carrying out scheduled engineering work on the tracks until Sunday. South West Trains says it will mean switching passengers to the road
OUTRAGED residents have vowed to turn out in force at a crunch council meeting in an effort to urge members to ditch plans for a fast food restaurant in a Hampshire village. Burger giant McDonald's looks set to open a drive-through restaurant in Locks
TEENAGE hot-shot Scott McDonald could get his first sniff of first-team action tonight as Saints travel to Brighton fearing they could have seven players sidelined. Definitely out are Chris Marsden and Matthew Le Tissier, who are both ready to resume
News from around the clubs CITY OF SOUTHAMPTON SAC: The action was pretty patchy during a shore competition held at Hordle Cliff where James Pritchett won the event with a solitary small-eyed-ray weighing 3lb 2oz. Andy Rogers was the runner-up with a
TEAM manager Tommy Flynn says Hampshire's English Boys Team Championship bid "started out like a dream and ended up a nightmare." They finished third of the four counties competing in the national final at Longcliffe yet halfway through the event appeared
A SOUTH AFRICAN dentist working in Totton has run 56 miles to help two of his young patients with more than just their teeth. Walter Reynecke, 33, who lives in Salisbury Road, Totton, went back to his native country to run the ultra marathon to raise
CHILDREN yesterday turned away from a Gosport school for having the wrong uniform were this morning returning in the correct attire. Cheryl Heron, head teacher at Bridgemary Community School, has imposed a controversial zero-tolerance uniform policy.
AN ASYLUM-SEEKERS' protest at Haslar detention centre has been resolved, according to the Prison Service. Several detainees were last night transferred to Winchester Prison after around 75 men held a sit-in and hunger strike in the Gosport building. A
CIVIC chiefs have given the all clear for a new sports injury and podiatry clinic to open in the popular Fryern Arcade shopping centre at Chandler's Ford - despite pleas from the council's prosperity supremo to think again. Executive councillor Margaret
FIREFIGHTERS were called to a trouble hotspot in Chandler's Ford after residents reported hearing "loud explosions" at the weekend. Now local councillor Colin Davidovitz is calling for urgent action to install security cameras at the Hiltingbury Recreation
PEOPLE power won the day as civic chiefs turned down a planning application to extend a 1960s block of flats dubbed a "disaster area" in up-market Hiltingbury. Planning officers were recommending approval for a scheme to add a three-storey extension to
Today's Principal Arrivings: Autotransporter, ro-ro , 0630, 201 link; Autosun, ro-ro, 0730, 38; Santa Catharina, refrigerated, 0800, 101; Celtic King, general cargo, 0815, 204; Faust, car carrier, 0830, 34/5; Ocean Spirit, car carrier, 1030, 40; P&
SOLENT Stars' need for an injection of overseas blood was underlined in the weekend's 83-76 friendly defeat by Oxford Devils at Fleming Park. Although the scoreline was a marked improvement on last season's 49-point mauling, it was the Stars trialists
THE secretary of Romsey Show has praised everyone who helped organise this year's event for showing determination and spirit amid the foot- and-mouth epidemic. And Anne Richards said she has already been busy making sure next year's show is another great
SOUTH coast law firm, Blake Lapthorn, is merging with Portsmouth-based commercial law practice, Sherwin Oliver Solicitors, which provides a range of specialist commercial services to businesses in the Solent region and beyond. The merger, which will be
TWO hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Centre in New York today in an apparent terrorist attack And the FBI has launched a major investigation after it was believed the planes had been hijacked shortly before the disaster. One of the planes,
FRIENDS of a psychotic Southampton man who died in bizarre circumstances in a hospital ward after holding police at bay with a bow and arrow for 19 hours today called for "no stone to be left unturned" at the start of an inquest into his death. Alex Dadd
SIX Southampton residents are joining an aid truck convoy to Kosovo to take food and provisions to refugees returning to their own homes. The fleet is leaving on October 7 and the drivers will be sleeping in the trucks during the five-day journey. It
GOING through adolescence is hard enough for any youngster, but one Southampton teenager has had it tougher than most. Nathan Baker, pictured, who is 15, has had to live with a "distorted" mouth while he waited five years for braces. This comes only days
Longdown Activity Farm near Ashurst is offering city slickers the chance to step into a farmer's muddy boots, and there was a queue for places even before the scheme was launched on Saturday. Farmer Bryan Pass says the rookies won't be dropped in the
AN ANIMAL welfare squad in the New Forest is being cut by a third in the wake of the national foot-and-mouth crisis. The verderers are making two of the Forest's six agisters redundant following a sharp fall in the number of animals owned by commoners
IT WAS the arts project which caused controversy among Fareham shoppers. But now the giant metal sculptures known as the Henry Cort millennium project are in line for an international prize for their design. The project, funded with £2.9m of public money
DEAN RICHARDS has pledged to be a Brighton Rock for Saints tonight, even though clouds continue to hang over his future. Richards is only too aware that his towering display against Spurs on Sunday inevitably pumped up the speculation surrounding his
Alan Shearer heads a list of England stars ready to turn out for Matthew Le Tissier's testimonial match on Tuesday, May 14. Le Tissier has now confirmed the date of his long-awaited benefit game at The Friends Provident St Mary's Stadium which will see
A GANG of young fire raisers put the lives of at least three families at risk when they rampaged through the West End area setting fire wantonly to wheelie bins. One blaze at Church Hill on the A27 sent flames licking up the side of a home and caused
