SOUTHAMPTON-based Southern Electric Contracting has won a £1 million contract to refurbish training support services for pilots flying the Army's new attack helicopter. The deal comes under a partnering agreement between the Ministry of Defence and Hampshire
FINDING an accountant to suit the needs of a business has been simplified with the setting up in Hampshire of the first com-prehensive database of qualified experts. Accessible on-line at the Business Link Hampshire web address, it allows users to enter
TOP film and TV composer Richard Blackford was looking for a sweet, fresh sound for his latest work setting the poems of Francis of Assisi to music. At a school on the edge of the New Forest he found the unspoiled voices he was looking for, to suit the
HUNDREDS of workers today held a one-day strike at Southampton shipbuilder Vosper Thornycroft (VT) after crisis talks between management and unions over a bitter pay dispute broke down in stalemate. About 650 staff carried through their threat of industrial
A MAN has been awarded more than £300,000 after ambulance staff left him lying in a hall-way for nine hours with a serious head injury because they thought he was drunk. Richard Laws, 32, ended up in a coma for a month and now requires full-time care
FEARS for the public's safety have been sparked by the disappearance of a potentially violent man from a psychiatric unit in Hampshire. Police are warning members of the public not to approach Stuart Gibbens who disappeared from the secure unit in Fareham
THIS baby penguin has found a new home in a flower pot to stop his inexperienced parents would trample him to death. Even if he survived that there was a good chance his mother and father would end up feeding their offspring pebbles or twigs. Staff at
THE heartbroken widow of Eastleigh airport worker Peter Shave has pleaded with a consor-tium of aviation enthusiasts to abandon their plans to rebuild and fly the Catalina seaplane. Mr Shave and Southampton mayor Mike Andrews died when the Catalina craft
IWAN THOMAS will be undergoing a scan tomorrow that could sway his entire season. Worryingly, Southampton's European and Commonwealth 400 metres champion has yet to step foot on a track this summer due to an ankle injury and the big fear is that if he
PAUL HORTON is leading one of the high-profile national saloon car racing championships - despite conceding up to 30 horse power to some of his main rivals. The young computer engineer from Chandler's Ford has a ten-point lead after six rounds of the
SOUTHAMPTON endurance riders Shelagh Bunn and Natalie Drummond have reached the final eight on a short list to compete in an international event in France. Six of the eight riders listed will go forward to represent Great Britain on July 15 and 16. But
AS the search continues for the 1999 Secretary of the Year, one possible contender for this year's title could be a man. Del Adkins is one of the few male secretaries on the South Coast. He has worked as a PA to a male boss for the past eight months at
THE UK is one of the main beneficiaries in the development of shared service centres for multinational corporations. According to a global survey, the majority of shared service centres are, not surprisingly, in the US, given that the concept originates
SOCIAL work bosses today defended splitting up a schoolgirl from her sisters despite their mums dying wish to keep them together and insisted noone would be sacked. Hampshire County Council has been heavily criticised in an independent report over the
TRENT Bridge tomorrow will be a different place from the one it was yesterday. The World Cup cricket bandwagon would have rolled out of Nottingham, to be replaced by something else which is gaining momentum - Hampshire's PPP Healthcare Championsip challenge
