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  • IOW Festival: Those lazy, hazy and crazy days of summer

    IT HAS gone down in history as one of the greatest pop festivals of all time... For three heady days during late August 1970, more than half a million hippies descended on Afton Down near Freshwater on the Isle of Wight to listen to the likes of guitar

  • Power to the people

    IT HARDLY seems possible that we're coming up to the tenth Power in the Park. And it's almost as incredible just how many chart stars - some of which are now all but forgotten - have taken to the stage on Southampton Common to entertain the city's pop

  • Lowe to open Eastleigh's stand before the big match

    SAINTS chairman Rupert Lowe has agreed to open Eastleigh Football Club's new stand on Thursday, August 5. The ceremony will be followed by a mouthwatering pre-season friendly (7.45pm) pitting Paul Sturrock's first-team squad against the area's most up-and-coming

  • Gordon Ramsay's Secrets by Gordon Ramsay

    Most of Gordon Ramsay's dishes come liberally sprinkled with insults, garnished with swearing and topped off with general abuse, as a dozen hapless celebrity chefs have discovered in ITV1's Hell's Kitchen. But for those of us who love his cooking but

  • BEST-SELLING HARDBACKS

    This week's best-selling hardbacks supplied by Waterstone's for week ending June 12, 2004. 1 (1) Being Jordan by Katie Price 2 (2) Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach To Punctuation by Lynne Truss 3 (3) The Slippery Slope: Series Of Unfortunate

  • BANNED

    A PROPERTY developer has been caught up in a police operation aimed at stopping suspected soccer hooligans from travelling to Euro 2004 - despite never before having been convicted of football-related violence. Paul Osborne, 35, has never been arrested

  • Democracy is the winner on the night

    RUMOURS of the death of voters' interest in politics may be exaggerated. If there is one thing the leaders of all political parties could agree on in the wake of Thursday's local council elections, it was the welcoming news that turnouts were higher than

  • Why Dowie success is exception to rule

    IAIN DOWIE bucked the trend by taking over Crystal Palace when they were in the doldrums and transforming them into a promotion-winning outfit. Figures just given out by the League Managers' Association show that this is the exception rather than the

  • Keep up the good work, Jason

    One of my charities is the Hampshire Autistic Society and this week I was delighted to officially open a new house in Bitterne, which will be home to five children. It is the first in Hampshire which provides boarding for a whole term. The society has

  • Ladies go for Hants

    I recently met up with the legendary Shane Warne at the magnificent Rose Bowl and was instantly struck by the man's winning mentality. I'm sure that from Hampshire's point of view the season will get even more exciting, with promotion from the championship's

  • Not run of the mill

    THERE'S no denying that Radio One's Scott Mills has had his fair share of lucky breaks. But it has taken the Southampton born DJ, who took over Sarah Cox's primetime afternoon slot on Radio One earlier this month, a lot more than good fortune to get to

  • Port Mungo by Patrick McGrath

    PATRICK McGrath's new novel brims with passion, death, ghoulish psychic energies, and incest in a steamy tropical setting. The story concerns, in McGrath's own words, "the romantic figure of the brilliant but dissolute artist". It's a romantic tale of

  • BEST-SELLING PAPERBACKS

    This week's best-selling paperbacks supplied by Waterstone's for week ending June 12, 2004. 1 (1) The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time (Adult Edition) by Mark Haddon 2 (2) Brick Lane by Monica Ali 3 (4) The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown 4 (6

  • In Port

    Today's Principal Arrivals: Royal Princess, cruise, 0500, 106; Yeoman Bridge, bulk, 0500, 109; NYK Leo, container, 0530, 207; CFF Seine, ro/ro, 0530, 25 link; Asian Legend, ro/ro, 0600, 43; Hual Tropicana, ro/ro, 0630, 40/41; Delphinus Leader, ro/ro,

  • Extra bobbies for Euro 2004

    EXTRA police patrols will be on the streets of Hampshire before and after each game England plays in the Euro 2004 tournament which kicks off today. The move is a bid to prevent alcohol-fuelled fans commiting public order offences. With many pubs screening

  • Our heroes are honoured

    HAMPSHIRE'S heroes have been honoured in the Queen's birthday honours list for their tireless work for charities and communities. Dedicated workers in the field of business and academia were also rewarded for their achievements. The list had an educational

  • I'm looking for eBay bids from just £1.4m!

    IF you've got £1.4m to spare then how about going on a round-the- world cruise from Southampton aboard the Oriana with 194 friends? Equally, you could pick up 28 of the latest BMW 645 Coupes, spend 2,978 days in a deluxe room at The Ritz, or sample 25,454

  • Demonstration vow over BNP firefighter

    HAMPSHIRE firefighters say they will stage a demonstration outside the service's headquarters in Eastleigh if Fire and Rescue bosses don't take action over a New Forest firefighter who stood for the far right British National Party in the European elections

  • Free Power - but it's by ticket only

    POWER in the Park has become an institution over the last decade, with up to 60,000 music fans swarming to Southampton Common every year to see their favourite stars in action at the free pop concert. Tomorrow's event, the tenth, looks set to do the same

  • Sizzling way to say thanks

    MORE than 1,800 people flocked to the grounds of Southampton mapmaker Ordnance Survey as bosses threw a massive party to thank their staff. Revellers soaked up the sun as they basked in an afternoon off work to celebrate the mapping agency's first five