TAKING THE STRAIN: Medal winner Darren Sherwood. A FAREHAM teenager is celebrating after scooping a silver medal in a major weightlifting competition. Darren Sherwood from Hunts Pond Road narrowly missed out on gold at the European Power Lifting Championships
WEDDING: Lisa Devine and Clive Wedge at their pagan wedding. A HAMPSHIRE couple stepped back in time to celebrate their marriage ceremony with a difference. Lisa Devine and Clive Wedge, both 23, took their vows at a traditional pagan wedding in the middle
SIMPLE: Simon Renshaw celebrates the end of the Worcestershire innings. WHAT price Hampshire's second PPP County Championship win of the season if it brings a complaint to the RSPCA Hampshire wrapped up a seven-wicket win over Worcestershire but not before
SAINTS boss Dave Jones savoured his side's Great Escape and then vowed: "Never again!" It was his first taste of a final-day survival struggle and he is already making plans to try and ensure the club do not have to go through it again next season. Within
JUSTIN ROSE insists he will stay on the European PGA Tour as long as the sponsors' invites come rolling in. Pressure has seemingly grown on the Hampshire teenager to switch to the less demanding European Challenge Tour as the toll of missed cuts on the
DRUGS squad officers arrested 18 people in a massive heroin swoop across the South early today. Detectives believe leading drug dealers are among the 11 men and seven women arrested in Hampshire, Dorset and Wiltshire. Heroin, crack cocaine and amphetamines
NEW TEAM: The new management team at Boarhunt, Mick Puleston, Glynn Daniels, Robert Doney and Robin Doney. SOUTH coast-based vehicle recovery firm Boarhunt Garage has been on the acquisition trail with the takeover of Central Garage. The joint organisation
PEDAL POWER: Francis Benali and Kevan James with fitness instructors Tony Gillette, Audrey Fraser, Ben Goodridge and Graham Hale, get riding to help the NSPCC. AFTER 24 hours of non-stop pedalling most of us would expect the view to be worth it. But for
WE LIKE EWE: Kathline Adams with lambs at the animale management centre. MORE than 6,000 people flocked to Sparsholt College near Winchester for a major open day to celebrate its 100th anniversary. The event offered something for everyone, including exotic
HAMPSHIRE'S first farmer's market proved a hit, with more than 10,000 people pouring into Winchester to buy locally-grown food. A fruit farmer from Lymington in the New Forest sold out of strawberries within the first half-hour and had to replenish her
SHIPBUILDER: One of the recently-built minesweepers from Vosper Thornycroft. SOUTHAMPTON shipbuilder Vosper Thornycroft delivered a huge multi-million pound boost to the city today with the news that the latest generation of warship is set to be built
A NEW lifeboat slides into the Solent at Gosport on Saturday - but she's not being launched quietly. A full complement of VIPs, including civic leaders, will be on hand to watch the 5.8 metre ribcraft being dedicated for Gosport and Fareham Inshore Rescue
MOVING IN: June Bridle. THE veteran leader of Southampton city council has been dumped in favour of his deputy in a move which has surprised Labour party members across the city. At last night's meeting of the city's 27 Labour councillors, education chief
THEY loved Preki's crowd-pleasing playmaking skills when he was at Pompey - but nobody would have guessed that the little midfielder was responsible for creating the biggest chance the troubled south coast club has had in years. Preki was the link that
BREAKING up was easy to do as the Saints players said goodbye for the summer. The squad were still in high spirits as they called at the training ground yesterday for one final congratulatory meeting before they went their separate ways for a six-week
IN THE SWING: David Porter. DAVID PORTER played one of the golf shots of his young life at his last hole to land the elusive Hampshire Youth Championship at Royal Winchester on Sunday. The 16-year-old England Boy's inter-national from Stoneham didn't
TOASTING THEIR SUCCESS:The staff at Valencios. THERE is a new taste of the Mediterranean in the New Forest following the opening of Valencios near Fordingbridge. The stylish bar and grill with a Latin flavour on the Sandy Balls Estate at Godshill is being
VOW TO FIGHT: Sally Taylor. WITH the forceful authority that has become her trade-mark on screen, Sally Taylor insists she is NOT a victim. That type of thinking makes her toes curl. She will not be labelled as "bravely battling'' and "struggling heroically
VICTIM: Paul Booth. SHE has gone through the facts in her head a thousand times, but Jacqui Booth Watkins still can't come to terms with her brother's death. The same haunting questions remain: Who killed Paul Booth What was their motive And why have
