Jimmy Adams helped Hampshire to the county's biggest opening stand for two years after being recalled following a two-month absence. The Winchester-born left hander has scored 406 runs at 40.60 in the second XI championship since being left out of Hampshire's
STUDENTS in and around Basingstoke are celebrating after chalking up excellent grades in this year's GCSE exams. Nervous teenagers and mature students descended on schools and colleges on Thursday to collect their GCSE results. There was good news all
THE row over the use of foreign labour at one of Hampshire's biggest employers is set to rumble on into September. Officials from three major unions at Fawley oil refinery met up again with Esso management to discuss the controversial issue. As yet, though
THE GENDER gap is yawning as wide as ever according to the latest figures, which show women earn an average of 27 per cent less than their male colleagues. Men receive average annual salaries of £30,948, while women lag behind, earning just £23,977 on
Southampton father-and-son duo Jim and Steven White competed at the Gurston Down Hill Climb Race last weekend, with dad Jim narrowly missing out on winning his class. The modified production saloon cars up to 1,400cc class was won by Steve Harris, with
Hampshire's Rob Collard chalked up his first ever British Touring Car Championship victory at Knockhill in Scotland at the weekend. Collard, from Hook, driving an MG ZS for the WSR team, took the lead from the start and held off a challenge from championship
With an easy win over Christchurch and Coast ARA Champions Herne Bay only managing third place, BTC were crowned Hants and Dorset Champions at the Itchen Imperial Regatta. As they reach peak performance BTC must be setting their sights on another Bideford
WINCHESTER licensing chiefs have agreed to allow a city centre pub to open for longer despite police concerns. There were no objections from the public to the application by the Old Gaolhouse in Jewry Street but the police have expressed worries. The
SCENES from rural life, television characters and wartime nostalgia captured the imagination of judges and ingenious scarecrow makers in the village of Bisterne near Ringwood. Dozens of curious figures suddenly appeared in fields, gardens, roadside verges
A NEW system for inspecting schools has been given the thumbs-up by a Basingstoke headteacher after his school was a "guinea pig" as part of a national trial. Ofsted inspectors visited Hatch Warren Junior School, in Gershwin Road, as part of a pilot scheme
ENERGETIC children in Hook were skipping like mad to raise money for charity. A total of 104 pupils at Hook Infant School, in Church View, took part in the sponsored skip in aid of the British Heart Foundation. Teacher Louise Newman organised the mammoth
A PRE-SCHOOL is celebrating after gaining the golden seal of approval from a national organisation. Cuckoo Meadow Pre-school, based at Rathbone Pavilion, North Waltham, near Basingstoke, was presented with its accreditation award by borough mayor Councillor
TWENTY-FIVE years of successful French exchanges were celebrated at Robert May's School. The school, in West Street, Odiham, has run an exchange every year for the last quarter of a century in conjunction with the College Prosper Mrime, in St Savin, near
AN ANTI-BULLYING DVD presentation has won youngsters at Cranbourne Business and Enterprise College special awards and much respect from younger pupils at the college. Twelve pupils from Years 10 and 11 devised and presented a very powerful drama production
SCHOOLS in north Hampshire have achieved some of the highest scores in the country for pupil performance and GCSE grades. The latest figures released by the Government show that education establishments in Basingstoke and the surrounding area are hitting
STAFF and pupils at a Basingstoke school are celebrating after it received a national accolade. Winklebury Infant School, in Willoughby Way, has won itself a second mention on Ofsted's list of England's most successful schools and colleges. It is one
THE man set to take over the reins at Brighton Hill Community College has revealed he wants to make it the best-performing school in the county. He says he already knows how good it is - because his three daughters are former pupils. David Eyre is to
THE creative flair of school pupils was let loose when they took part in a special road safety poster competition. The competition was open to all pupils at schools across Basingstoke to coincide with National Safety Week. The pupils at Castle Hill Infant
THE HOURS are ticking away for you to have your say on the future of Southampton's highly acclaimed heart unit. Nurses' jobs may go and services may be cut under proposals to cut £4m from the budget of the Southampton General Hospital unit. But if you
HE is that loveable character who has a big following of fans at one-day matches at the Hampshire Rose Bowl. Harry Hawk - the county side's mascot - has been getting the crowd into fine voice for the Lord's final against Warwickshire on September 3. Yesterday
AN ELDERLY couple who installed CCTV outside their Southampton home in a bid to stop antisocial behaviour were ordered to take it down because it contravened neighbours human rights. Olive and Eric Mackness, were stunned to receive a letter from Southampton
HAMPSHIRE TV gardener Charlie Dimmock is backing a campaign to get immobile pooches in the south back on their feet again. Ground Force star Charlie, from Romsey, has thrown her weight behind the Hip Hip Hurray Canine Arthritis Awareness Month, which
A CHARITY which provides support to vulnerable families with young children has been given a cash boost by the Co-op. It has awarded £500 to the Eastleigh branch of Home-Start which will use the cash to help fund activities for children and adults. Mary
THE cost of moving a pair of ornate celebratory gates that had been put in the wrong place is set to escalate. When the Jubilee Gates were installed in West Street, Fareham, in 2002 questions were raised about their positioning. They lead to the back
A CHARITY which provides support to vulnerable families with young children has been given a cash boost by the Co-op. It has awarded £500 to the Eastleigh branch of Home-Start which will use the cash to help fund activities for children and adults. Mary
YOUNG artists from Eastleigh College are staging an exhibition of their work in Winchester. The budding artists have been given permission to show off their work at Winchester's Guildhall Gallery. The exhibition, called 'Image and Imagination by Art Fourteen
Harry Redknapp will today be asked to perform a footballing trick of escapology of which legendary namesake Houdini would be proud. The Saints manager was today counting down the hours until the transfer window slams shut at 5pm this afternoon. English
Hampshire batsmen Derek Kenway and Lawrie Prittipaul have both been released by their home county. Botley-based Kenway, 27, and Portsmouth-born Prittipaul, 25, had been earmarked to play for Hampshire since their schooldays but leave with less than 100
AN HISTORIC Basingstoke house is set to be reduced to rubble - possibly paving the way for flats to be built on the site. Fieldways in Russell Road was the home of famous Basingstoke builder Harry Mussellwhite, who built it for himself after developing
SOAKING the staff was the most popular event at one nursery's summer fete. Children from Leapfrog Nursery, Hanmore Road, Chineham, took turns with water pistols to spray staff members Sarah Harrison, Emma Ledger and Danni Duffin, paying 50p for the privilege
TRAMPOLINST Christopher Stickland has been voted the first-ever Hartnells Vauxhall Young Sportsperson of the Year. The 16-year-old Southampton lad has cerebral palsy but is still one of the leading lights at the Team Lightning Trampoling Club based at
Great Britain's double world track champion Rob Hayles of ReCycling.co.uk prepared for his ride in the Tour of Britain with third place in the Glasgow warm-up criterium. A criterium is a race run around a short town centre circuit. The races are run off
Four local petanque players helped steer England to victory in the Home Nations Triples Championships at Luton. Graham Galton and Robert Padwick, both of Southampton City Petanque Club, played with Hannah Barnes and Heather Stockbridge from the Isle of
STUDENTS in and around Basingstoke are celebrating after chalking up excellent grades in this year's GCSE exams. Nervous teenagers and mature students descended on schools and colleges on Thursday to collect their GCSE results. There was good news all
A £4.9MILLION replacement maths and technology block has been approved for Costello Technology College in Basingstoke. Hampshire County Council leader Cllr Ken Thornber gave the thumbs-up to the scheme last Thursday. The new three-storey block will replace
STUDENTS and staff are certainly on the ball at Brighton Hill Community College after being handed the prestigious FA Charter Standard for a second time. The award, first given to the Basingstoke sports college three years ago by Hampshire Football Association
GREEN-fingered Basingstoke pupils spent an afternoon with Mother Nature thanks to an innovative nationwide scheme. Children at Marnel Infant School, in Shetland Road, Basingstoke, took advantage of the early spring sunshine to plant 28 hazel trees in
A NEW eco drive that aims to make pupils at a borough school more aware of the environment has been kick-started. Pupils at The Hurst Community College, in Baughurst, have been busy thinking about recycling and saving energy as part of an ongoing environmental
A LANDMARK lab has opened at a Basingstoke college - and the star guest was a true champion. The 2003 British touring car champion Rob Collard was the VIP guest at the opening of the new autolab at BCOT. The state-of-the-art AT2000 Autolab at the college
A HIGH-profile "three strikes and you're out" scheme, piloted at a Basingstoke school, has resulted in a massive drop in uncompleted homework. As exclusively revealed in The Monday Gazette, pupils at Fort Hill Community School in Winklebury have faced
A £500,000 extension to Whitchurch Primary School has been welcomed as a "really positive" move by delighted headteacher Remus Sawyerr. It is hoped work on the extension, which will result in the provision of two reception classrooms and an ITC suite,
PUPILS at Basingstoke's John Hunt of Everest Community School this week took part in a lesson they should never forget. Teenagers from Year 10 were given a talk by Holocaust survivor Rudi Oppenheimer as part of a personal health and social education day
BOROUGH bosses have backed detailed plans for a replacement secondary school in Basingstoke - one which will boast state-of-the-art information technology facilities. The new John Hunt of Everest School - earmarked for land at Wellfield Farm, Sherborne
A PLANNED new school in the heart of a major borough housing development is at the centre of a political row after education chiefs decided to put it on hold. Sherfield Park - a new development for 800 homes on the A33 near Sherfield-on-Loddon - includes
IT was one of the most famous towns in America's notorious Wild West. With its gunslingers and gamblers Dodge City was synonymous with lawlessness and disorder. The saloons, dance halls, gambling houses and brothels, associated with the area are a world
PHEW! What a scorcher. Calshot Beach, pictured above, will be a popular place to head for today as temperatures are set to rise to 28C (82F) making it one of the hottest days of the month. A Met Office forecaster said the warm weather would peak today
DUCKS of the rubber and yellow variety joined native wildlife on the River Itchen as fundraisers staged their annual charity race. More than 2,000 plastic ducks were released onto the water at the White Swan pub in Mansbridge in front of a bumper bank
WINCHESTER Cathedral has announced the date for its Christmas carol concert, which will be introduced by celebrity gardener and writer Alan Titchmarsh, pictured. The concert, which will be led by Winchester Cathedral choir, will take place on Friday,
HAMPSHIRE constabulary is launching a drive to recruit people from ethnic minority communities to become advisors on race relations. A panel of Independent Advisers is being set up by the force in the hope of fostering better relations with members of
STUDENTS in and around Basingstoke are celebrating after chalking up excellent grades in this year's GCSE exams. Nervous teenagers and mature students descended on schools and colleges on Thursday to collect their GCSE results. There was good news all
WORK has begun to provide youngsters in a Hampshire village with a brand new state-of-the-art skatepark. The facility in Stubbington is one of five that Fareham Borough Council is determined to see built in response to rising demand from youths. In Stubbington
Fabrice Fernandes is sweating on whether his 18 months of misery at Saints will end with his joining Bolton on a free transfer. The 25-year-old French winger has fallen drastically out of favour under Harry Redknapp. He will be allowed to move back to
