NO wonder Westwood's under-11 footballers are celebrating - they've just won their club's first major trophy. Westwood needed only a draw in their final Southampton Tyro League Division 5 game of the season to win the league. But, had they lost to Eastleigh
EXPERIENCED Hampshire all-rounder Dimitri Mascarenhas should not give up on his England dream. That is the view of Hampshire vice-captain Shaun Udal. Udal, who became England's oldest Test debutant for 17 years during the winter, believes Mascarenhas
THE row about rubbish collection in Basingstoke is rumbling on with an accusation that borough Cabinet chiefs have been playing politics with people's bins. Outspoken borough councillor Phil Heath has hit out at the council's Cabinet recycling chief for
PARKING charges for patients and visitors at Basingstoke hospital are among the lowest in the country. Amid national concern about the level of parking fees levied by hospitals, Basingstoke hospital has revealed that it pulls in £200,000 every year through
TWO doctors' surgeries with thousands of patients are set to relocate to a landmark building near Basingstoke railway station. Church Grange Surgery and Bramblys Grange Health Centre, which have 32,000 patients between them, have been granted planning
HAMPSHIRE boss Rod Rosier has welcomed Adam Tidby with open arms as the countdown continues to the new Middleton Cup campaign. The England indoor international - now a Southampton Sports Centre member - is expected to slot into the county team as a skip
THEY may be starting a day after the London Marathon but for two grandparents from Alresford their race will be longer and far more meaningful. Later this month Len and Jenny Kirley will face one of the toughest walks in Britain when they set off from
AN award-winning firm is planning to use pedal power to cut congestion in the New Forest. The Country Lanes cycle hire company is inviting visitors to the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu, to tour the rest of the area by bicycle. Based in one of the museum's
Controversial plans for 43 homes on the former Scats depot at Micheldever Station have been given the go-ahead. The 1.15-hectare (4-acre) site is owned by Berkeley Homes and based next to the railway line to the west of Overton Road. It will now be used
A FIRM of developers which is competing to transform the area between Friarsgate and The Broadway in Winchester is going public with its plans. London and Henley will invite residents to view their proposals to rejuvenate the area later this month. The
ILLEGAL drug making equipment recovered from a Hampshire cannabis factory is now being used to feed animals and endangered creatures at Marwell Zoo. More than £9,000 worth of lamps, water pumps and other items used to grow cannabis was donated to the
Southampton will have never seen anything like it before as the world's biggest cruise ship makes her dramatic entrance into the port later this month. No one will be able to miss the monster supership Freedom of the Seas towering 237 feet high over the
EVERY single place has been filled in a county-wide dance competition after almost 500 youngsters rushed to sign up. Organisers of Dance for Life have been impressed by the enthusiasm for the contest, which takes place this spring. The British Red Cross
INDUSTRIAL action by more than 350 Wightlink ferry staff has been averted after a revised pay offer. A ban on overtime, rest day working and late sailings was due to start tomorrow and would have crippled the vital ferry service to the Isle of Wight over
THE Totton Art Society will have a guest demonstrator at its next meeting on April 26. Professional artist Colin Bradley, who uses pastels to create animal portraits, will be at the meeting from 7.30pm, at the Three Score Club in Library Road. Visitors
Basingstoke 16, Weston-super-Mare 10 BASINGSTOKE maintained their bid to secure third place in the Powergen South-West One league after defeating Weston-super-Mare with a gritty display where they refused to let the referee's frustrating influence adversely
HEALTH chiefs conceded this week that Andover did not get a brand new eye machine for removing cataracts - Winchester did. Last week the Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust announced that Andover War Memorial Hospital now had a new £70,000 phaco
STALWART members of the Grenville Quilters took part in a 24-hour Quilt-A-Thon to raise money for the Chernobyl Children's Charity. The charity raises money to bring over groups of children from the region blighted by the nuclear power disaster. Two years
Shepherds Spring Schools campaigners were out in force in Andover Town Centre on Saturday - persuading people to sign a petition to save the schools. Parent governors, councillors and staff spent the day on a market stall handing out balloons, flags and
THERE will be a Hampshire Farmers' Market in Andover on Easter Sunday from 10am until 2pm in the High Street. The market will feature decorated stalls and a children's Easter trail. Easter weekend is also traditionally a time to venture out into the garden
THE Ministry of Defence has announced that the £8 billion project to transform Salisbury Plain military garrisons has been awarded to Aspire Defence. The deal, lasting many years, is the biggest ever defence private finance initiative and will have a
VISITORS bathed in the sunshine on Saturday on the River Way green at a fete held by The Phoenix Centre. Young and old enjoyed a bouncy castle, barbecue, fun races, tours of a helicopter and many other attractions. The fete's aim was to bring the community
A WHITCHURCH dental surgery has decided not to sign the controversial new NHS Dental Contract and another in Andover has signed up for only three months. The Mid Hants PCT offered the new contracts - which have been severely criticised - to 28 dental
ANDOVER Food Bank - designed to help deprived people in short-term crisis - was opened by town MP Sir George Young on Monday, at St John the Baptist Catholic Church. Emergency food boxes will be given to those in need, together with coffee and an chance
Hursley Park Ladies have won the league and cup double in the South Hants Indoor Cricket League at Fleming Park in Eastleigh. The six-a-side team were unbeaten in their ten league games, winning the title with two games to spare. Captain Emma McMillan
LAST year's protest by four Lib/Dem councillors at the annual Test Valley Borough Council mayor-making in Romsey is threatening to cast a shadow over this year's ceremony. The Conservative group has turned down a request that a Lib/Dem councillor should
FAREHAM College will be throwing open its doors for an extra open evening later this month to accommodate growing demand. Prospective students and their parents will be able to look round the Bishopsfield Road campus for a second date following the success
AN EASTLEIGH hairdressing boss has launched a petition as the town's new parking meters have been hit with waves of protest. Don Greening, pictured right, the owner of the High Street salons of Charlie Girl and Dee Gees, says that charging motorists to
SAINTS striker Kenwyne Jones has been named in Trinidad and Tobago's preliminary 24-man squad for the World Cup finals. Coach Leo Beenhakker has named the squad for a friendly against Peru on May 10 and will be trimmed to 23 for Germany. Trinidad are
A CELEBRATION concert to mark St George's Day is being held in Chandler's Ford on April 23. An evening of triumphant music from the Band of the Royal Logistic Corps and the Tudor Rose Ladies Barbershop Harmony Corps is being organised by the Rotary Club
Dorset cricket champions Weymouth have applied to join the Southern Electric Premier League when a vacancy crops up. A 'gold' accredited club both in terms of their well appointed Redlands ground and youth set-up, Weymouth won the Dorset Premier League
KEVIN Pietersen took his first ever England wicket yesterday as the tourists finally got off the mark in the one-day series in India. While his county colleagues were lining up at the Rose Bowl for the traditional media day, Pietersen was bowling Harbajhan
BOWLS - BANISTER Park celebrated their birth exactly 100 years ago to the day when 110 bowlers, members and guests gathered to mark the centenary at the club's Stoneham Lane headquarters. As well as officials from the Hampshire and Southampton associations
PETER Ward's consolation after losing in the quarter-finals of the English Indoor BA singles was that his conqueror Paul Coleman went on to become national champion. Ward also pushed Coleman harder than anyone else at Melton Mowbray, the Hampshire Liberty
THE Greenridge Farm Summer Series got off to a fine start with Dwayne Seed winning at the weekend . He took 94lb 5oz of carp on pellet up in the water over the far shelf from peg 15 on canal two, writes Mark Simmonds. Graham Tappenden caught 91lb from
FIRE chiefs took their prevention message to Totton College to give special needs students a lesson in fire safety. The students, aged 16-50, took part in fun and interactive fire safety awareness exercises as part of the launch of a three-year strategy
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A WINCHESTER motorist says poor signage at a city centre car park is tantamount to an "accident waiting to happen". Terry Wall says he regularly sees drivers at The Brooks flouting the rules in their bid to grab spaces. The car park, which he says he
VISITORS to a country park near Winchester will be treated to the sight of some very special grass-cutters over the next few weeks. Six Highland cattle took up residence this week at Avington Park, a seven-acre, HCC-managed area of open grassland. The
SHOPPERS are boycotting Winchester because of problems caused by the on-going gas main roadworks, according to some city traders. Their fears have been echoed by Graham Love, of the Winchester City Centre Partnership, who said footfall was down 20 per
A "NAGGING" mum persuaded Sue Rubira to get out her oils and enter a painting competition to mark the Queen's 80th birthday. And now she's glad she did -- just four days before the closing date -- after being crowned the outright winner of a Daily Mail
POMP and circumstance came to Winchester yesterday (Wednesday), when HRH The Princess Royal accepted the Freedom of the City on behalf of the King's Royal Hussars, for which she is Colonel-in-Chief. Hundreds of people gathered for the colourful spectacle
IN his heyday Danny La Rue entertained sell-out audiences in London's West End and laid the foundations for a glittering career in the entertainment business. Today supporters of Danny, who has made Southampton his home for the last 20 years, have denied
AS a freedom parade it had it all - the Princess Royal, brass band music, tanks roaring up Winchester High Street and soldiers marching perfectly in step through piles of horse dung. Hundreds of people lined the streets of Winchester to watch probably
HUNDREDS turned out for the funeral of a much-loved New Forest vicar who lost an 18-month battle against leukaemia. In testimony to his popularity about 550 people - two bishops, 18 visiting clergymen, family, friends and parishioners - attended the service
ARLENE Brady has cared for countless patients, dealt with innumerable crises and faced traumas most of us prefer not to imagine but she always managed to keep a smile on her face. Now Arlene, pictured, has just notched up 40 years of service to Southampton
A RECORD breaking attempt by Southampton yachtswoman Dee Caffari to sail the 'wrong' way around the world could be about to run out of steam on the final stretch. A broken water maker could end the 32-year-old's dream of becoming the first woman to solo
A PARTIALLY sighted Andover mother who is struggling to make ends meet could lose her home after a tax credit blunder. Faye Ranieri who works from her King George Road home, looks after her disabled husband and three children. She relies upon monthly
VILLLAGERS in Hurstbourne Tarr-ant are to be asked what kind of building they want for their new village hall. In the parish magazine, project chairman Leopold Antelme rep-orts that the design phase of the scheme can now proceed after negotiations led
KIMPTON, Thruxton and Fyfield CE Primary School has been given a makeover thanks to soldiers from Perham Down. The soldiers from 3 Armed Engineering Squadron, Royal Engineers, based at the Swinton barracks, spent a week building a new fence at the front
Kaye's class cannot save unfortunate Winchester Effingham & Leatherhead 25, Winchester 24 Winchester's game at Browns Lane last Saturday ended amid confusion and consternation. With the visitors 25-24 behind in injury time, the referee awarded them
M&T Awbridge too good for Fair Oak A Tuesday night game littered with loose passes and lacking in real quality got off to a flying start, Mick Newell heading Fair Oak in front from Russell Wiseman's cross after just 3 minutes. M&T responded quickly
Ice-cool Kelly books Common's final place SATURDAY's semi-final showdown at Main Road had just about everything - four goals, two penalties, eleven bookings and two sendings off. After 90 minutes of high-octane football Common, who won the trophy in 2004
A BIRDS and bluebell walk taking in the sights and sounds of spring is being held in Gosport on April 30. The two-hour stroll will start at the entrance to the Wildgrounds Nature Reserve in Rodney Close, Rowner from 2pm. Tickets which can be bought on
