NEW MILTON'S Greg Woodford defied the odds to come out on top at the Lymington Cod Championships. Adverse weather conditions meant that boats were restricted to the western Solent, and so it was always going to be tough for competitors. However Woodford
FLOUNDERS dominated during the Hamworthy RBL pegged evening open at Baiter, which attracted 75 competitors with Neil Saxby scooping the £250 top prize after beaching five flatties totalling 5lb 15oz. Saxby, a member of Boscombe & Southbourne SFC,
News from Sea Angling clubs ESSO SAC: A beach championships fixture held at Hythe saw 22 members in action with 15 returning 65 flounders weighing 66lb 7.75oz to the scales, the heaviest being a 1lb 15.25oz bagged by junior member Dan Yeates. Another
Peter Price is on course to make it six of the best in England for the second year running. Price's Southampton Spitfires golf team face a final showdown with Wyke Green from London in the National Seniors Six-man Championship. They booked their final
Life Down Under with Hampshire's Iain Brunnschweiler WE are fast learning some lessons about cricket in Australia - and a vital one that has become apparent so far is that when you are batting, you have to put a high price on your wicket. This is not
A recruiting drive is under way to find apprentices and skilled craftsmen keen to join Britain's boating and yachting industry centred in the south. This comes as one of the industry's main showcase events, the annual London Boat Show, prepares to welcome
LEGENDARY England cricket star Ian Botham has thrown his weight behind the "A Place For Us" Christmas campaign to help the homeless in Basingstoke. Beefy's backing will hopefully encourage more local support for the campaign which aims to provide vital
ANOTHER boost for the appeal to raise money for special cardiac X-ray equipment has been provided by pharmaceuticals company Eli Lilly. The cash will go towards the £70,000 the North Hampshire Medical Fund needs to buy the equipment so doctors in the
BURGLARS made off with £900 after breaking into a home in Haileybury Gardens, Hedge End, and forcing a metal money box. Police said the raiders first broke into a shed and used a spade to force open a kitchen window. Once inside they searched all rooms
The course chosen for this year's South of England Cyclo-cross Championships, in Rainham, Kent, certainly lived up to all expectations. Predicted by the organisers to be full of speed, it was also extremely slippery in places after heavy rain had saturated
SOUTHAMPTON Water will soon see the next generation of Royal Fleet Auxiliary support vessels which will be based at the Marchwood Military Port. The four new 16,160 tonne Bay class vessels will replace the ageing RFA Landing Ships Logistic, Sir Percivale
A recruiting drive is under way to find apprentices and skilled craftsmen keen to join Britain's boating and yachting industry centred in the south. This comes as one of the industry's main showcase events, the annual London Boat Show, prepares to welcome
A SHOW offering tributes to four legends on one stage is bound to be one of the most popular rock 'n' roll shows around. Tribute show Rockin' On Heaven's Door will be coming to The King's Theatre, Southsea, on December 16. Richard Atkins, Marc Robinson
A REPLICA handgun has been stolen in a break-in at Southampton's Mayflower Theatre. Police revealed the automatic pistol had vanished from a stage manager's room on the first floor of the theatre, pictured right in Commercial Road on Saturday evening,
POLICE today reminded people not to leave valuable Christmas presents on display after burglars plundered a Southampton home. The warning came as police stepped up the newly-launched Operation Boa campaign aimed at ridding burglars from Southampton's
A RETIRED Hampshire couple are hoping to spend Christmas back in their own home after it was wrecked by floods a year ago. Barney and Jennifer Bass have spent the last 12 months confined to an upstairs apartment while their home has be practically rebuilt
PEOPLE'S fear of crime is often greater than the reality with Fareham considerably better off than other comparable towns across the country. That's the conclusion of Fareham Community Safety Partnership and Crime Concern, a national crime prevention
SAINTS striker Uwe Rosler is back on the south coast after a month's loan with West Brom. The German marksman scored one goal in his five appearances, but has not secured a permanent move at The Hawthorns after boss Gary Megson finally signed long-time
FIREFIGHTERS at Hythe have taken another step forward in the world of hi-tech equipment. Hythe has become the first wholly retained station in Hampshire to receive new mobile data terminal through the county fire and rescue service. The computerised terminal
Matt Blackey admits he has reached the crossroads of his golfing career. A fourth failure from five Final Tour School appearances has set him wondering: is it worth carrying on? His stroke average on the European Tour improved in 2001 from 72.3 to 71.5
Hampshire golfer Kerry Smith is in an elite 12-strong Great Britain and Ireland squad to play in South Africa next March. The girls will play in the South African Championship at the Rodenbosch Club, Cape Town, from March 10-15, followed by two test matches
Chris de Bruin sailed through stage one of the European Seniors Tour qualifying school at Alto in southern Spain. But the Tylney Park professional found the going much tougher in the final at Pinta, where rounds of 74, 78 and 80 put him out of contention
HAMPSHIRE 'S Derek Kenway was left unbeaten on 13 after the first day of the English Academy 's four-day game in Adelaide. Kent 's Robert Kay and Middlesex 's Andy Strauss both scored centuries as England reached 374-4 on the opening day against their
IT WAS the icing on the cake for the new £4.5 million ARK Medical Facility at Basingstoke on Friday. A large crowd gathered for the formal topping-out ceremony of The ARK medical facility at Basingstoke hospital. Myrddin Rees - the Basingstoke medic behind
MENTAL health beds in Basingstoke may have to close because of financial pressures and a shortage of staff. A meeting of the health trust, which now runs Parklands Hospital in Basingstoke, heard that the spiralling cost of hiring staff from agencies to
HAMPSHIRE Ambulance Service NHS Trust workers have welcomed news of 90 more recruits. The largest manpower drive ever undertaken by the service means 59 trainee ambulance technicians, 21 communication centre employees and two further administration staff
OPERATORS of a controversial tipping site in East Wellow have been slammed for riding roughshod over Hampshire's waste regulations. Bosses at J & W Waste Management Ltd have been ordered to stop all their operations at Woodington Farm and clean up
HOPES of Prince Charles giving Fair Oak's new-look recreation ground a right royal send-off have been dashed. Thousands of pounds have been spent on upgrading the Shorts Road Recreation Ground which has been renamed New Century Park. Special ornate gates
CHILDREN are big business for one Hampshire company which is thriving by providing the kind of entertainment kids want and the levels of service parents demand. Based in Romsey Serendipity Sam's opened its doors to children last year and has already won
THIRTY workers at Blue Band Express in Hampshire can look forward to a brighter future thanks to a management buy-in and a rebranding exercise at the express delivery company. Speculation has been running high on the future of the company on the south
Blithe Spirit , Chesil Theatre, Wichester Meeting your husband's former wife is not always easy. When the previous incumbent, dead for several years, appears in spirit form and refuses to leave the marital home, the situation becomes impossible. When
POLICE and Social Services in Southampton have launched an investigation into the death of a man in his nineties at one of the city's residential homes. Cyril Boyle, 94, who lived at the Glen Lee residential home in Wavell Road, Bitterne, died on Saturday
FIRE crews in Southampton are back where they belong after the city centre's new state-of-the-art station was launched. The £1.8m project in St Mary's was opened by the mayor, Councillor Chris Kelly, who contacted the service's force control to mobilise
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