PARENTS and carers of Southampton toddlers will be voting for their favourite book to share in a special award scheme this summer. Reading is a pleasure to be discovered as early as possible and there's no better way for a child to be introduced to the
Personality by Andrew O'Hagan has just been published in hardback by Faber and Faber, priced £16.99 For a writer whose first two books have been shortlisted for numerous awards including the Booker, and whose new book is hotly tipped to take that prize
DREAMS came true for four girls from the Dynamo School of Gymnastics last weekend at the National Club Grade Finals. The quality quartet made up the Southern Region team competing in Kettering for the national title. There were 12 teams, one from each
THE parents of a popular Hampshire schoolboy who died in a road accident last summer have organised a petition calling for safety measures in the road where the tragedy happened. Paul Dunn was 12 when he was in a collision with a car in South Street,
SOUTHAMPTON is getting decked out in Saints colours as FA Cup fever grips the city. Banners and posters, flags and window displays are turning the city centre into a sea of red and white to create a festival feel in the countdown to May 17th's showdown
SAINTS players will be touring the city the day after the FA Cup final - but only if they beat Arsenal. Southampton City Council is finalising plans for an open-top bus tour of the city centre on Sunday, May 18. With the players and management aboard,
ASTHMA sufferers in Southampton will get better care thanks to the launch of a new "asthma charter". The charter, called A Breath of Fresh Air, features ten points outlining the rights people with asthma should expect to receive from the National Health
BRITAIN'S oldest and most prestigious bronze foundry at Lasham near Alton is seeking sponsors to help get its next project - a memorial to the Battle of Britain - off the ground. The Morris Singer Foundry has been commissioned by the Battle of Britain
ONE of the world's few female yachting skippers has returned to her Southampton home. Sairah MacGillivray, 37, dropped anchor at Saxon Wharf on board the yacht Findings for major servicing on the Dutch-built vessel. Skipper Sairah, who trained for her
WHEN Simon Rogers bet his girlfriend Emma that he would marry her if Saints got into the FA Cup final - little did he think he would be walking down the aisle. But that's exactly what happened yesterday - and to mark the happy occasion everyone from the
IF WILL or Gareth stripped to their undies on stage, I'd be shocked and embarrassed. With Erasure's Andy Bell, though, you'd be disappointed if he didn't end up exposing vast amounts of flesh. (Or not so vast, as it happens; the camp crooner is looking
A MAN who doused a car in petrol and threatened to set it alight with a child and dog inside is being detained under the Mental Health Act. The incident happened in Shanklin on the Isle of Wight yesterday as crowds of holidaymakers and shoppers looked
IT is a decision that thousands of Hampshire residents are waiting for and one they fear could affect their whole way of life. But yesterday the man in charge of the project that could see 400 asylum seekers housed in Lee-on-the-Solent said the wait would
A "DANGEROUSLY intoxicated" man who ran over a Hampshire mother-of-two then drove for a mile with her trapped under his car is today behind bars. Paul Sparks, 26, had spent nine hours drinking in pubs with friends in Crewkerne, Somerset, on Boxing Day
On the eve of his side's final Premiership match of the season at Manchester City, Saints boss Gordon Strachan admitted: "It would hurt if we finished out of the top ten." Saints round off their 38-game league campaign at Maine Road tomorrow knowing a
James Beattie goes into tomorrow's final Premiership match of the season against Manchester City with "one last chance" to win the Golden Boot. The Saints hitman has led the top flight's scoring charts for much of the season but has recently just fallen
Southampton celebrates 30 years of being twinned with Le Havre, writes KEITH HAMILTON... It was 30 years ago and the whiff of French culture and cuisine blew into Southampton from the city's continental neighbour, Le Havre on the other side of the Channel
David Graveney, the chairman of England's selectors, has given Hampshire bowler Chris Tremlett a timely boost. Tremlett, 21, bowled the last over of the C&G first round match against Sussex, which Hampshire's south coast rivals won by four wickets
COLIN KENNA has had to rethink his plans ahead of Monday's heavyweight showdown at the Southampton Guildhall. The Lordshill boxer was due to fight Mal Rice, but the giant Welshman was yesterday forced to pull out after suffering a hand injury in training
A FORMER Southampton man who shook a baby so hard she suffered head injuries has been convicted of grievous bodily harm. Anthony Vine left the six-week-old girl with a blood clot on her brain and damage to her eyes after losing his temper with her, Winchester
A COUPLE today recalled the terrifying moment their car windscreen was broken on a Hampshire motorway when vandals hurled a missile from a bridge. As reported by the Daily Echo, the object - similar in size to a golf ball - smashed into the front of the
A PHYSICAL Education teacher from Southampton now working in Australia is vying for the title of the world's greatest Saints fan. Life-long Saints supporter Dan Fee, 28, who now lives in Sydney listened to the entire FA Cup semi-final in a telephone call
Hampshire golfers Justin Rose and Matt Blackey scraped through the halfway cut at the Benson and Hedges International Open by the skin of their teeth at The Belfry yesterday. And Richard Bland joined them last night after looking odds-on to extend a grim
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Today's Principal Arrivals: Carmen, vehicle carrier, 0030, 34/35; Saga Rose, cruise ship, 0700, 106; Sundream, cruise ship, 0730, 38/9; Gran Bretagna, vehicle carrier, 1100, 202; Taiko, vehicle carrier, AM, 43. Today's Principal Sailings: Nedlloyd Europa
HAMPSHIRE backstroke swimmer Katy Sexton is preparing for what could be an exciting summer with a head-to-head against the commonwealth champion this weekend. The race between Portsmouth Northsea's Sexton and Sarak Price of Barnett Copthall could be one
The Lamb's championship efforts in Division Two of the Lyndhurst Working Men's Club League could provide some real match entertainment next season. The Nomandsland pub side proved they will not be daunted by promotion to the top tier next season when
Six of the most senior elite divers at the Southampton Diving Academy wrapped up a two-week trip to Gran Canaria by taking part in the Pepsi Diving Cup competition at the Club Nationale Metropole in Las Palmas. Around 70 divers from Egypt, Holland, France
BLUEBELLS and clematis were out in full bloom to mark the opening of Romsey Hospital's pretty new garden for patients and visitors. Lady Romsey, president of the hospital's League of Friends, did the official honours and cut the red ribbon to declare
Nathan The Wise, Minerva Theatre ORIGINALLY banned by the Nazis, Lessing's important play exhorting us all to live in peace no matter what our religion is still relevant today. Set in Jerusalem 1192 during the truce between the Muslim Saladin and the
A "DANGEROUSLY intoxicated" man who ran over a Hampshire mother-of-two then drove for a mile with her trapped under his car is today behind bars. Paul Sparks, 26, had spent nine hours drinking in pubs with friends in Crewkerne, Somerset, on Boxing Day
IT is a decision that thousands of Hampshire residents are waiting for and one they fear could affect their whole way of life. But yesterday the man in charge of the project that could see 400 asylum seekers housed in Lee-on-the-Solent said the wait would
