ABBA and the Bee Gees together on one stage, the Thank You For The Music show is to make a triumphant return to Bournemouth for the summer. Starring Abba Magic and Bee Gees Magic, the flare-flappin', boob tube-busting, Spandex-spangled, sequin-studded
The world's first major stage production of The Jungle Book, a magical entertaining family adventure based on Rudyard Kipling's classic tale, will be at The Mayflower from Tuesday. The Jungle Book creates a world of trumpeting elephants, hulking bears
AUDIENCES at The Lighthouse in Poole are spoilt for choice this week. Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is on between Monday and Saturday. The show is returning to Poole with its liveliest, most energetic company of actors, singers, dancers
The third and final film in the series reduces the epic battle between good and evil is a barrage of computer-generated special effects and slow motion trickery. While the first X-Men film and its sequel, elegantly directed by Bryan Singer, compelled
ANGRY Alresford residents have attacked plans for dozens of new homes in their town. Barratt Homes' plans for 34 homes in gardens behind Grange Road has raised concerns over traffic and over-development. More than 100 people attended a meeting to
MECHANICAL marvels known as Dancing Diggers will be one of the star attractions at the New Forest Show. The diggers have wowed the huge crowd when they appeared before and are expected to prove equally popular at this year's event. Five JCBs, each
HEALTH chiefs in the New Forest have backed putting controversial plans to axe three birthing centres out to public consultation. Early discussions have been held about the possibility of closing maternity facilities at Hythe, Romsey and Lymington,
THE ever popular craft market returns to Whiteley Village over the Bank Holiday Weekend. There will be more than 45 stalls, as well as live jazz music and craft workshops allowing children to explore their creativity and take home their own creations
A FOOTBALL club will have to wait for a council decision on its new stand. At a meeting of Fareham Borough Council's planning development committee it was decided to defer the matter of Locks Heath Football Club's new stand until a site visit can be
A TALENTED Hampshire teenager has been given a place in one of the country's top dancing and drama schools. Charlotte Smith from Hedge End is looking to fulfil her dream of performing on the West End stage after being awarded a place at Laine Theatre
HE faced blizzards, white outs, unusually deep snow falls and temperatures as low as -42C degrees. However, despite battling against all the odds, a Hampshire adventurer is celebrating completing one of the world's toughest races. Dan English, 27
The weather may have put a cart and horses through most of the local cricket programme so far this season, but Paultons defied the rains a third time to come away from their visit to Hambledon with a result - and a positive one at that. Having won the
SENIOR Stanbridge Earls students recently returned from a rugby and netball tour of South Africa. The sporting memories were matched by many other personal, cultural and educational experiences, which many will carry forward long after leaving the school
STOCKBRIDGE: Parish council chairman David Baseley has decided to have "one last year" in the role. Initially, he planned to step down this month, but he has been urged him to continue. Clerk Kenrick Fell said: "Since he made his original decision he
VICAR of Boyatt Wood in Eastleigh for the past eight years, Rev Peter Gilks is set to switch parishes in the summer. He will become the vicar of Chilworth and North Baddesley, with an institution service planned for July 10. Formerly rector of Abbotts
THE Duke of York, military man of action, came to the fore on Tuesday, when Prince Andrew visited a technological centre of excellence near Romsey. The duke was at Roke Manor Research to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the company, which has developed
A MANIAC is putting road-users' lives in danger in the Romsey area. Police say that for the past fortnight someone has been deliberately loosening wheelnuts on vehicles parked on an industrial estate near Timsbury. Police spokesman, Alan Smith, said that
POSSIBLE moves towards closing the recently-reprieved birthing unit at Romsey Hospital have been revealed this week. However, health bosses in South-West Hampshire say nothing has been decided yet as alarm bells again began sounding over the future of
ANGRY Alresford residents have attacked plans for dozens of new homes in their town. Barratt Homes' plans for 34 homes in gardens behind Grange Road has raised concerns over traffic and over-development. More than 100 people attended a meeting to see
PEDAL power is what one ambitious cyclist hopes will carry him on three wheels the length of Great Britain. Determined Andrew McKenna hopes to claim an unofficial cycling record when he sets off on the 840-mile route from Land's End to John O'Groats tomorrow
A TALENTED Hampshire teenager has been given a place in one of the country's top dancing and drama schools. Charlotte Smith from Hedge End is looking to fulfil her dream of performing on the West End stage after being awarded a place at Laine Theatre
A SOUTHAMPTON school that has forged close relationships with businesses including VT Shipbuilders has been praised for its innovative curriculum. Inspectors from the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) praised some of the outstanding features
ONE of Britain's biggest landowners has bought another 180 hectares of the New Forest National Park to help preserve the area for future generations. The National Trust has bought the 150-hectare Foxbury Plantation near Bramshaw and an area of lowland
A SPONSORSHIP plea to Andover businesses for this year's carnival has raised just £480 so far, and four tyres to be used as a raffle prize. Lions Club Carnival organiser John Whalley, said more than 100 letters were sent out asking for help. "This is,
SHOPLIFTERS, ignorant drivers and lost shoppers - it's all in seven days' work for the tough twosome better known as Andover town centre's beat bobbies. The shopping centre's pavement pounding patrol has now been stepped up to provide whole-week coverage
PARENTS of sick, disabled children face losing much-needed help when their current care ceases in June. The Dragonfly Team, based at Winchester hospital, will see its three-year lottery grant expire at the end of June and so far, there are no definite
A SITE which has been a bone of contention in the centre of Tidworth for decades may at last have its future mapped out after planners agreed to let developers Bloor Homes build 28 new homes. The old Roadhouse site was once earmarked for a supermarket
THE organisers of the Andover War Memorial Hospital annual fete were delighted with the response from members of the public despite having to move most of the stalls inside because of the weather. Mr Mike Reynolds, chairman of the hospital League of Friends
KEEN-EYED Overton residents are keeping their gaze trained on the village's new car park looking out for a rare breed -the lesser-spotted shopper. The 40-space car park, on Overton Hill, has been set aside as a temporary site for shoppers and shop staff
A FOOTBALL club will have to wait for a council decision on its new stand. At a meeting of Fareham Borough Council's planning development committee it was decided to defer the matter of Locks Heath Football Club's new stand until a site visit can be carried
HE faced blizzards, white outs, unusually deep snow falls and temperatures as low as -42C degrees. However, despite battling against all the odds, a Hampshire adventurer is celebrating completing one of the world's toughest races. Dan English, 27, is
The statue of Saints legend Ted Bates will be positioned outside the main entrance to St Mary's. The middle flagpole of the three currently on the concourse at the stadium will either be repositioned or taken down completely to make way for the £90,000
The third and final film in the series reduces the epic battle between good and evil is a barrage of computer-generated special effects and slow motion trickery. While the first X-Men film and its sequel, elegantly directed by Bryan Singer, compelled
THE WILD (U) Disney's computer animated romp bears more than a passing resemblance to Madagascar. The Wild throws together an unlikely band of creatures on a journey of self-discovery in the great outdoors. The lacklustre screenplay is starved of laugh
1. 16 BLOCKS (15) eight, sodden detective who has almost given up on life. 16 Blocks dusts off the plot of the Clint Eastwood thriller The Gauntlet to play an exhilarating game of cat and mouse. 2. MISSION IMPOSSIBLE III (12A) Tom Cruise returns in the
WELLOW FC are to move up to Division 3 of the Wessex League for the coming season after finishing third in the Southampton Senior Premier League. They are taking the place of Netley Central Sports, who are voluntarily stepping down to Hampshire League
WELLOW amateur Gary Turton and his club's PGA professional Neil Bratley are chasing golfing glory in Europe's biggest pro-am competition, the Lombard Trophy. The pair tee up in the regional final on June 28 at Frilford Heath Golf Club in Oxfordshire,
Promising Hampshire batsman Kevin Latouf will be out of action for at least six weeks after tearing the medial ligament in his right knee at a midweek Rose Bowl training session. Latouf, 20, who played in last September's C & G Trophy triumph at Lord's
Zimbabwe pair Charles Coventry and Keith Dabengwa, back from the West Indies tour, are set to make Southern Electric Premier League debuts. The pair played bit parts in Zimbabwe's 5-0 ODI Series defeat in the Caribbean and are looking forward to a less
Local club cricket is bracing itself for a second consecutive week of mass postponements after heavy rain waterlogged grounds across the region. Both the Southern Electric Premier and Hampshire Leagues expect the bulk of tomorrow's matches to be called
PLAYERS and their proud parents crammed into the Mick Channon Suite at St Mary's for the annual Eastleigh & District Mini Soccer League presentation evening. Some arrived in limousines and others wore team shirts, but everybody left with a smile on
The Totton & Eling Tennis Centre took tennis into the community by hosting its first annual junior schools tournament over four days. Eleven schools from the local area entered, with 150 children aged between eight and 11 taking part. Schools represented
Ballard School hosted the New Milton Swimming Gala - and dominated it! Three other schools sent pupils from Years 5, 6, 7 and 8 but Ballard won more than half the individual events and all the relays. They topped the under-12 section and the over-12 section
A BIG cake and music marked the third birthday of the Romsey to Totton rail-link. Passengers who boarded two special trains - the Jazz and Folk - were offered pieces of celebratory cake and treated to live music as they travelled through Hampshire's countryside
THE Quays-based diving academy are staging their first 'display' show in a bid to attract new fans to the sport. The Southampton academy are one of the leading groups of divers in Britain. Led by Olympic silver medallist Peter Waterfield, the group regularly
LANDFORD village hall's new £57,000 extension has been officially opened by Wiltshire County Council's chairman, Bill Moss. Parish councillors and Salisbury District Council's Alderbury and Whiteparish ward member Leo Randall, who represents the village
PARISH chiefs at Mottisfont claim taxpayers' cash is being squandered on an 'unnecessary' £500,000 cycleway at nearby Timsbury when no funding is available to complete a footway in their village. Mottisfont Parish Council says few cyclists use the existing
A PAIR of teenagers had something to brag about when they turned up at their local with a potentially lethal Australian Redback spider. Toby Hounslow, from Stockbridge, and Rob Floyd, from Kimpton, found the spider during a Monday shift at Hampshire Flexitanks
A MAJOR row is brewing in East Wellow over a scheme to build a roundabout at a dangerous road junction in the village. Some residents living close to the Whinwhistle Road and A36 junction will lose land, trees and even buildings if the Highways Agency
A MOTHER from Romsey ensured that a Fathers4Justice protest on live television had an unusual new slant. Nadine Taylor is the first woman to use direct action to publicise the pressure group, which is famed for its high-profile stunts. The organisation
A TROUT fishery near Winchester has won permission for an agricultural worker's house. The city council has approved the plan by Nigel Jackson, of Sutton Springs fishery, Bullington Lane, Sutton Scotney.
MECHANICAL marvels known as Dancing Diggers will be one of the star attractions at the New Forest Show. The diggers have wowed the huge crowd when they appeared before and are expected to prove equally popular at this year's event. Five JCBs, each weighing
HEALTH chiefs in the New Forest have backed putting controversial plans to axe three birthing centres out to public consultation. Early discussions have been held about the possibility of closing maternity facilities at Hythe, Romsey and Lymington, as
NUMBERS at a Waterside pre-school doubled for a day when pupils invited their favourite furry friends to join them. A teddy bear's picnic at The Kindergarten in Fawley went down a treat with the tiny tots despite the miserable weather. The group, which
The world's first major stage production of The Jungle Book, a magical entertaining family adventure based on Rudyard Kipling's classic tale, will be at The Mayflower from Tuesday. The Jungle Book creates a world of trumpeting elephants, hulking bears
AUDIENCES at The Lighthouse in Poole are spoilt for choice this week. Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is on between Monday and Saturday. The show is returning to Poole with its liveliest, most energetic company of actors, singers, dancers
A HAMPSHIRE soldier is not only on target with a modern rifle, but also with the ancient bow. Lance Corporal Lee Miller, from Southampton, has proved his talent when shooting with the Army archery team in national competitions - and has been awarded a
THE Bishop of Southampton is to open a new building at Netley Marsh C of E Infant School in Woodlands next month. The Rt Rev Paul Butler will visit the 70-pupil school in Ringwood Road, Woodlands, and officially open the new facility, which includes a
HE'S one of Southampton's favourite sons. Comedian Benny Hill was one of the 1970s most recognisable TV personalities. Now, it seems that growing up in the 1970s had a profound effect on Conservative party leader David Cameron. The Tory hopeful has revealed
CAMPAIGNERS who fought to keep a wide range of services at Andover War Memorial Hospital can see how successful they have been when the NHS reveals its preliminary set of options. Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust will shortly be presenting
DANEBURY, the Iron Age Hill Fort has been officially re-opened following essential earthworks to restore the monument to its full glory. Owned by Hampshire County Council, the work included repairing the earthworks and rampart paths, which had become
BALKSBURY Junior School pupils travelled back in time recently to learn about Viking history. They spent the day learning about Viking mythology and weaponry and were even shown the process of a Viking funeral. They were also visited by three actual '
THE annual May Fayre at Longparish School raised an impressive £4,500 on Saturday. Mrs Andrea Hulme, chairman of the Friends of Longparish School, said the event avoided the worst of the weather with only a couple of showers and did not deter more than
THE Test Valley Incentive Scheme Card was launched this week aimed at keeping businesses in the area and encouraging the public to spend their money. Application forms have been sent out to businesses but the scheme will be limited to 100 businesses in
THE future of Enham village is in the melting pot after the charity which owns much of the area floated plans to build new housing on brown field and green field sites - doubling its size. The Enham Charity unveiled the plans at a two-day exhibition at
THE ever popular craft market returns to Whiteley Village over the Bank Holiday Weekend. There will be more than 45 stalls, as well as live jazz music and craft workshops allowing children to explore their creativity and take home their own creations.
Commonwealth heptathlon champion Kelly Sotherton starts her preparations for a major championship double when she competes at next month's Norwich Union British Grand Prix. The Olympic heptathlon bronze medallist has recovered from a back injury and operation
A TALENTED Hampshire teenager has been given a place in one of the country's top dancing and drama schools. Charlotte Smith from Hedge End is looking to fulfil her dream of performing on the West End stage after being awarded a place at Laine Theatre
Today's principal Southampton arrivals: CMA CGM Tosca, container, 0030, 207; Asian Legend, roro, 0230, 43; Anvil Point, roro, 0230, 43; Black Watch, passenger, 0600, 101; NYK Canopus, container, 0600, 204; Aurora, passenger, 0645, 106; Queen Elizabeth
THE GOVERNMENT yesterday announced an extra £1.6 billion for workers who have lost their company pensions but APW workers will not get a penny. The coffers of the Financial Assistance Scheme set up to compensate workers whose companies have gone
