THE future of jazz is right here in Southampton and it's nearly all at the hands of one man. Twenty-four-year-old pianist Leon Greening has burst on to the national scene after outplaying all his rivals from across the South. Leon came through the regional
DAVE JONES is aiming to Norse whip his men into shape for the new campaign with a tough pre-season programme. Saints have lined up a five-game tour of Norway including provisional clashes with top sides Molde and Viking Stavanger. Venues and exact details
IWAN THOMAS'S message rang out loud and clear at the close of Saturday's BAA Southampton Airport Hampshire Youth Games.. "Keep enjoying your sport. If you don't enjoy it, it's not worth doing it," he told the massed ranks of youngsters gathered at the
MEON VALLEY'S golfing showpiece, the Philips PFA Classic, lost it biggest crowd puller when Matt Le Tissier withdrew just hours before the event. After figuring in the two pro-am competitions, the Saints star pulled out of the main event, telling organisers
THE Confederation of British Industry has forecast a pick-up in economic growth by the end of the year and predicted interest rates would fall by a further half a percentage point. Rates will fall to 4.75 per cent by the end of the year and stay at that
SOUTHAMPTON businesses have been told that BT is no longer a telephone company but an international information-moving organisation. The company's principal consultant Dr Graham Whitehead said that more than £300 million was now being spent by BT on looking
SHARES at department store group Allders jumped five per cent as the company issued an optimistic outlook statement despite the retail slowdown hitting profits. The group, which has stores in Southampton and Portsmouth, said like-for-like sales for the
THINK Winchester and think pumping club sounds, nine massive outdoor music arenas and 32,000-plus festival fanatics. At least that was the scene this weekend as the dance event of the year, Homelands, touched down. A successor to last year's pioneering
WHERE was everyone That's the question on people's lips as the great Bank Holiday weekend turned into a damp squib. Organisers were left counting the cost of the bad weather as the expected huge crowds failed to materialise. And those predicting doom
SOUTHAMPTON'S successful bid to host one of the world's biggest ever youth sports events will cost council tax-payers almost £400,000. But civic chiefs claim the figure is excellent value as it will unlock millions of pounds' worth of investment in the
IF any man can lead a horse to water and make it drink, that man is a cowboy called Paul Yenny. At a tip of his hat, he can persuade a troublesome horse to go into a trailer and has been known to tame a bucking bronco in less than half an hour. If you've
RUSSELL Rowe notched his second consecutive century and took his run tally past the 250 mark as South Wilts sidestepped a thunderstorm to keep up their Peter Cooper Volkswagen Southern League challenge with a victory over Alton at Lower Bemerton. South
CASH-STRAPPED Bashley Football Club have lost the services of their master marksman James Taylor - and they won't be receiving a single penny for him. This season's 33-goal Dr Martens League Southern Division leading scorer, valued at £15,000 by the New
