Southampton Saints' 100 per cent record was finally dented last night by south coast rivals Portsmouth. Sue Lopez's table-toppers went into FA Women's Premier League Southern Division action at Winchester boasting a perfect nine wins out of nine record
Southampton's first European adventure for 19 years came to an abrupt end last night. Claudiu Raducanu scored the only goal seven minutes from time as Steaua progressed to the second round following their 1-1 draw at St Mary's last month. Saints came
A CARAVAN business in Hampshire has won a top consumer award thanks to satisfied customers. Chichester Caravans, based in Main Road, Colden Common, has been crowned Abbey Caravans Dealer of the Year 2003 at a glittering awards ceremony. The company romped
Cowes, Isle of Wight, UK: Cowes Combined Clubs, the organisers of Skandia Cowes Week, have today confirmed that Peter Harrison has accepted a challenge laid down by Kit Hobday to match-race Harrison's Farr 52 CHERNIKEEFF against Tim Louis and Kit Hobday's
It could have been marked down as just another unsolved attack on a Hampshire primary school until one suspected vandal left a vital clue - a picture of his face. Yobs wreacked havoc at the school, destroying schoolwork and spraying paint and graffiti
THE ARCHITECT chosen by Southampton City Council to revamp the redundant Vosper Thornycroft site in Woolston also built one of Britain's most infamous white elephants - The Millennium Dome. City bosses announced plans to redevelop the prestigious site
COCKNEY comic Jim Davidson has met his match. The cheeky funnyman came face-to-face with a real EastEnder as he showed off the costumes for his Southampton pantomime spectacular this Christmas. Albert Square favourite Lucy Benjamin will co-star in the
A Southampton mum has started a campaign to make a city road safer for children and pensioners. Dawn Davies, 33, has collected more than 100 signatures for a petition demanding action in Castle Way. The part-time sales assistant of Palmerston House, Palmerston
CLAIMS THAT pilots have been "cutting corners" has plunged Southampton Airport into a new row over noisy aircraft. Howls of protest have come from Bishopstoke residents living at the northern end of the runway and from Bitterne Park, Southampton, in the
RESIDENTS voiced their frustration with the city council and police at a meeting over their failure to tackle the blight of antisocial behaviour on Southampton's streets. The meeting of the Federation of Southampton Residents' Associations at the Civic
THE biggest lottery grant Test Valley has ever seen has just been confirmed - allowing work to start on an ambitious £840,000 youth complex at West Portway, Andover. Borough council leisure chiefs are celebrating the successful £402,000 lottery bid from
THE opening of the new Serendipity Sam's play and party centre at Whitchurch has had to be postponed and a planned visit by the teeny-bopping, chart-topping, Fast Food Rockers cancelled. The planned opening today has been rescheduled because more building
A GROUP of artists showed off their work at the Wallop Artists Annual Exhibition recently. More than 35 Wallop Artists displayed water and oil paintings and sculptures to be enjoyed by the public. The exhibition was a great success and attracted more
HAMPSHIRE'S newest craft centre - the Fairground Craft & Design Centre at Weyhill - was formally opened by Test Valley Mayor, Cllr Pat West, on Saturday. The fairground site dates back to the 13th century, when it served the market needs of farmers
A FIRST responder scheme to aid the ambulance service may be set up in the Chutes - if enough volunteers come forward. The idea follows concerns over response times with confusion over Wiltshire Ambulance Service responding to calls from an 01264 Andover
THE Mayor of Test Valley Pat West and Troggs frontman Reg Presley will be the guests of honour at the Andover Christmas lights switch-on in the High Street at 7.30pm on 21 November. Organisers, who still need to raise £7,000, are asking local businesses
IT was a dream that some thought would never come true but the new John Hanson Community School has marked its completion with a formal opening ceremony. The school relocated from its split site at Croye Close and The Drove to the £14.5 million, purpose-built
CRICKLADE College is kick-starting its free lunchtime concerts and expanding its evening musical events. Head of music Viv Finer, who was only appointed in April, said: "We are trying to give music a higher profile around the college and around Andover
SCHOOLS in the area have been holding their annual harvest festival celebrations. At Zouch Primary School, each class performed a piece of work in a special harvest assembly, which included a French poem as part of the school's modern foreign languages
Sports Editor Ian Henderson reports on a great day at Portsmouth SONIA O'Sullivan retained her women's title in the annual BUPA Great South Run at Portsmouth last Sunday. The former Olympic distance runner covered the ten-mile course around the city in
A DRUGS seminar is to be held in Goodworth Clatford on Monday to raise awareness of issues surrounding drugs and drug abuse. The event is open to anyone interested in learning more about drug issues. Topics covered will include how people take recreational
SOUTHAMPTON'S world powerboat champion Steve Curtis made it two wins out of two in the race for the 2003 Championship. Curtis, bidding for his sixth world crown, and teammate Bjorn Gjelsyen claimed victory in Travemunde, Germany, in their Lamborghini-powered
NEIGHBOURS in a cul-de-sac in Swanmore have turned their unwanted junk into hard cash for a Hampshire cancer charity. Residents of Glendale turfed out all unwanted goods and sold them off in a garage sale which netted £365. The cash will be donated to
SAINTS boss Gordon Strachan remained defiant after his club's long-awaited return to Europe ended in first round defeat. A late goal from Claudiu Raducanu sentenced Saints to a 1-0 defeat in Romanian against Steaua Bucharest last night. It meant Saints
JANE McDonald, the Wakefield girl who shot to fame when she appeared on BBC1's hugely popular The Cruise, embarks on a major UK solo tour this autumn with a new five-piece band. And you can see her next Tuesday, at The Anvil in Basingstoke. No stranger
PROTEUS is proud to present its new season, which kicks off with the Breakthrough Tour What Everybody Wants? (pictured). This new Interactive Disability Play will be touring to day centres, residential homes and disability groups in the south this autumn
AT JUST 19, Dean Skinns is now the longest-serving member of the Basingstoke Bison line-up, with this being his third season. The teenager was thrown in at the deep end when he made his Bison debut on September 15, 2001, in Slough. The Wella-backed side
There's no greater motivation to write a decent report on a club than being threatened by a hard man who borrows his name from a fairy! After Marchwood Rangers' recent match had ended and the dust had settled, Marchwood first aid supremo Mark 'Tinkerbell
Simon Katich is expected to play for Australia tonight - and Paul Terry is backing him to become a Test regular. Left-handed batsman Katich is set to win his second Test cap in Sydney, after Darren Lehmann was forced to pull out because of an inflamed
IF YOU go down to the woods today...no, hold on, that was my review of Wrong Turn. But here we are again, in the middle of nowhere, for Eli Roth's bloodfest Cabin Fever, a spatter and splatter tale which will leave you stirred but not really that shaken
Today's Principal Arrivals: CMA CGM Verlaine, carrier, 0500, 206; CEC Daisy, cargo, 1130, 33; OOCL Netherlands, carrier, 1330, 205; Alianca Europa, carrier, 2230, 204; MOL Precision, carrier, 2359, 207. Today's Principal Sailings: St Barbara, ro/ro, 0100
Commodore of the Royal Ocean Racing Club, Peter Rutter, has announced the Admiral's Cup 2003 event will now be run from Cowes and not Dun Laoghaire, in Ireland. Earlier in the year, it was felt that the event needed a fresh look to continue its appeal
FURIOUS residents are demanding the removal of a radio mast after describing it as a potential threat to public health. Protesters packed a public meeting at Hythe last night to voice their anger at the installation of the mast, which was erected without
Charles Dunstone, founder and CEO of the Carphone Warehouse Group, has announced that he will be competing aboard his new Reichel-Pugh Maxi Sled - ENIGMA OF LONDON - at Skandia Cowes Week 2003 (2-9 August). Dunstone, a former Skandia Cowes Week winner
A SOUTHAMPTON MP has branded moves to withdraw the city's fleet of bendy buses as "farcical". John Denham's comments sparked a bitter row after he urged the city council and First Hampshire travel group to find ways of ensuring the super-low vehicles
SOUTHAMPTON is gearing up for a right royal occasion when the Queen names Cunard's French-built Queen Mary 2 superliner next year. Buckingham Palace has confirmed Her Majesty will take part in the historic ceremony on Thursday, January 8, but the £550m
WHEN a tiny two-year-old South-ampton tot put on her first pair of ice-skates and took to the ice at the city's old rink in 1984, no one imagined it would lead to an array of competitive accolades. But having won a bronze medal from the British Ice-skating
CIVIC minded schoolchildren from Outer Shirley who aim to become junior neighbourhood wardens have collected their prizes from Southampton mayor, Councillor Parvin Damani. The mayor presented the awards to the children who have competed in a competition
THE Cango bus service in Andover has been nominated for a bus industry 'Oscar'. The county council's Hampshire Cango has been nominated for the Bus in the Countryside Award in the Claudia Flanders Accessibility Memorial Award in the annual Bus Industry
City hit the goal trail against league strugglers Whitchurch Utd 0, Winchester City 8 WESSEX League newcomers City have hit the jackpot this week, following their 7-2 thrashing of Blackfield on Saturday with an even heavier victory over perennial strugglers
MAJOR changes to the way the Army estate in Tidworth is run could flow from the decision to appoint Aspire Defence as the preferred bidder for a 30 year contract worth billions of pounds. Project Allenby will involve the adoption and management of the
No panic... despite crushing defeat by 'superb' Richmond Winchester 5, Richmond 75 That Winchester were beaten by the better side at Nuns Road last Saturday would be the winning entry in any understatement of the year contest. They were completely demolished
Barney's world title win sparks fights outside the ring MATTHEW Barney's success in taking the WBU world lightheavyweight title in Portsmouth last weekend was tainted by angry scenes among the crowd at the Mountbatten Centre. The 29-year-old from Durley
The south coast is gearing up for a festival of speed on water in August. An international field of offshore powerboat racers will take to the waters off the Solent and also Poole, Dorset to vie for winners' laurels on the 100th anniversary of the Daily
A £1m fleet of easy-access buses has won an award for an Eastleigh bus company. Solent Blue Line scooped the Eastleigh Accessibility Award - set up jointly by Eastleigh Council and Shopmobility - for the first time at an awards ceremony held at Southampton
RENAULT has launched a new version of its Kangoo Trekka 4x4 - the only small car with permanent four-wheel-drive fitted as standard. The Kangoo Trekka 4x4 embodies the perfect combination of a fun, versatile and affordable mode of transport for customers
CHAS 'N' DAVE return to The Corn Exchange on Thursday, November 20, at 7.45pm for their show Two for the Road. With songs such as Rabbit, Gertcha, Ain't No Pleasing You and Margate, the pair have secured a place in the nation's heart for more than 25
HIS LAST appearance at the Haymarket Theatre was as Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, for the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has played in The Merchant of Venice and Measure for Measure and, for the Manchester Library, he played Fortinbras in Alan Rickman's
