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TORRENTIAL rain couldn't dampen the spirits of thousands of people who turned out to watch the Olympic torch relay pass through Lymington.

TENS of thousands of people packed the streets of Southampton to welcome the Olympic torch relay to the city.

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THEY came, they saw, they cheered. Tens of thousands of people have lined the streets of Southampton to watch the Olympic torch relay wind its way through the city. The flame was proudly carried by 16 different torchbearers from the Red Funnel

Click here to see all the images They braved the rain and put up with the mud. But that didn’t stop more than 11,000 people pack into Southampton’s Mayflower Park to welcome in the Olympic flame. As the torch made its way through

Yachting legend Dame Ellen MacArthur has spoken of her pride in carrying the Olympic torch as it continued its journey around the UK with trips on two ferries and a cliff-edge chairlift. The relay resumed its travels in Bournemouth, Dorset

Record signing Jay Rodriguez made the perfect start to life at Saints by scoring on his debut against Arsenal - but it was the Gunners who won the Markus Liebherr Memorial Cup. The £7m summer signing from Burnley announced his arrival with

The capital of the New Forest turned on the style to greet the Olympic torch. Huge crowds took up every vantage point possible as it travelled up the High Street.

The Olympic torch caused huge excitement when it arrived in Brockenhurst. It was given a rapturous welcome which also included an Olympic fund day at Brockenhurst College.

A BODY has today been found in a Southampton park. Police officers have sealed off an area of Hoglands Park in the city following the discovery of a man’s body. A member of the public found the man in his 50s and alerted Hampshire Ambulance

BACK in 1907 two world wars were yet to happen, no one had heard of television and Southampton resident Fred Flack was born. Despite his advanced years, the 105-year-old, a resident of Northlands House Nursing Home, could pass for someone 20

POLICE are hunting a man who stamped repeatedly on a cat’s head before throwing his lifeless body under a parked van. Tigger – known as Tigs – had been part of the furniture at the Briggs’ house in Southampton after arriving as a kitten 16

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LYNDHURST can rarely, if ever, have seen more people at once than the thousands who squeezed into the village centre as it became the first part of the New Forest to see the Olympic torch up close. The packed High Street was a real buzz of excitement

Click here to see all the images CROWDS of hundreds turned into thousands as spectators lined the road this morning ready to witness a once in a life time sight. Waving Union flags they cheered as the Olympic torch convoy made its triumphant

Click here to see all the images THE rain came down, but it was the cheers going up from thousands of people that filled the air as Lymington embraced the Olympic spirit. A torrential downpour began just minutes before student 17-year-old

A MAN is recovering after being attacked with a claw hammer. The 23-year-old was found wandering a Southampton street after being stabbed and repeatedly hit in the neck and leg with the weapon. Police believe the incident happened at a nearby

Kelvin Davis has pledged to fight for his place, despite Saints’ intentions to sign at least one new keeper this summer. The 35-year-old moved to St Mary’s six years ago and has been with the club as they dropped down to the third tier, before enjoying

Racing at Salisbury today has been abandoned through waterlogging. Racecourse supremo Jeremy Martin had been confident the meeting would go ahead when he left the track about 6pm yesterday. But it was then hit by another half an inch

NIGEL Adkins is remaining tight-lipped on reports that Saints are closing in on signing Crystal Palace right back Nathaniel Clyne. The club are understood to be discussing a deal with the out-of-contract 21-year-old, who they will need to pay compensation

THE husband of the woman accused of beating to death her mother-in-law with a rolling pin has described the women’s worsening relationship. Iqbal Singh said his mother Baljit Kaur Buttar, 56, was initially unhappy when he married Rajvinder Kaur

AT last it is here! Today is the day people across the region have been waiting for. A bumper crowd of 100,000 people are set to line the streets to see the Olympic flame as it burns through Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. From

IF YOU’VE ever thought it a little bizarre that a gardener has become one of the UK’s most successful and popular broadcasters, not to mention an author and a heart-throb, with a career that has spanned some 30 years, you wouldn’t be alone. Alan