• EASTLEIGH Football Club revealed ambitious plans to for a new, multi-purpose 9,000-seater stadium costing £10million.

The flagship plan came weeks after the National League team’s FA Cup run climaxed with a clash with championship team Bolton Wanderers, in the biggest match ever held at the Silverlake Stadium with 5,025 attending.

Chief executive Mark Jewell confirmed the clubs expansion plans and said: “Having a stadium that will be used by the community all year, not just on matchdays, is the long-term objective.”

  • LONDON-based investment company Long Harbour revealed plans to transform the site of the derelict Fawley power station.

It planned to demolish the 43-year-old building and replace it with a showpiece development of more than 1,000 homes and a luxury marina.

Long Harbour spent £25million on the huge complex which occupies 300 acres of land on the western shores of Southampton Water.

A company spokesman said: “Long Harbour is excited at the prospect of developing the site, which has real potential to be a major contributor to the area’s economy.” 

  • MATTHEW Hamlen, 36, was jailed for life for battering grandmother Georgina Edmonds to death in her own home in 2008.

Hamlen will spend a minimum of 30 years in jail, minus the 337 days he had already spent in custody.

Judge Justice Saunders said: "It was a murder which shocked the community in which Georgina Edmonds lived.

"She was 77 years of age at the time of her death.

"She was battered to death with a marble rolling pin in her own home by a complete stranger.

"I have no doubt that when he inflicted those blows, Matthew Hamlen intended to kill Georgina Edmonds.

"I cannot be sure that he formed that intention before he entered Fig Tree Cottage but the attack inside the cottage was brutal and sustained."

  • THE Duchess of Cornwall received an honorary doctorate of science from the University of Southampton.

The Duchess was given the accolade for her work on osteoporosis, a debilitating condition that led to the death of her mother and grandmother.

As well as receiving her degree she took a tour of some of the university’s laboratories and met some of its researchers who are working on groundbreaking projects to tackle illnesses such as osteoporosis and cancer.

She praised the university’s “world-leading” work and in particular its musculoskeletal programme led by Professor Cyrus Cooper, describing it as “genuinely life-changing for people who suffer from osteoporosis.

  • RESEARCHERS in Southampton announced that they had developed a revolutionary new form of cancer treatment using a deadly weapon – the patient’s own body.

Immunotherapy supercharges a patient’s immune system so it can spot and then kill off cancer cells as they appear.

Harnessing the bodies “Killer T” cells, they will be taught to recognise and eliminate diseased cells in the body, forcing them to bubble up and die.

The treatment could also provide people with the long lasting protection against any further cancer growth. Work will continue in hopes of creating a cancer immunotherapy vaccine which could be available within 15 years. 

  • “THE nation feels they have lost a friend,” said Hampshire celebrity Esther Rantzen describing the death of her friend, radio and TV broadcasting legend, Sir Terry Wogan, who died from cancer aged 77.

Born in Limerick, Sir Terry moved to the BBC as a presenter in the mid 1960s.

Over the years he fronted numerous television and radio shows including Blankety Blank, Auntie’s Bloomers and chat show Wogan.

However he was most famous for his stinging commentary of the Eurovision Song Contest.

Sir Terry was one of the founders of Children in Need and hosted the telethon for more than 20 years.