ACROBATS, jugglers, and fire-eaters will be some of the acts performing this week-end in Winchester at the Hat Fair - Britain's oldest festival of street theatre. Not only is the event, which is backed by the Daily Echo, celebrating its silver jubilee
ORGANISERS are putting the final touches to this year's Southampton Carnival - being hyped as the best ever. The annual extravaganza on Saturday, July 17 is expected to attract more than 50,000 visitors into the city centre. The free multi-cultural event
A CRUISE liner chef was second to naan when he walked off with the top spot in the hottest cooking contest in Southampton. Goanese chef Lester Carvalho proved he was king of the kormas by winning the city's curry chef of the year competition. His recipe
THE first round of The Christchurch Evening Series on the club's Sombrely Lake saw victory go to Nick Greek who took 29lb 1oz of bream and tench on the ground bait feeder and worm to score easily from Steve Martin who took 14lb 11oz of skimmers and small
UNITED Services suffered the heaviest competitive defeat in their history, barely 48 hours after Hampshire took County Championship cricket away from their Burnaby Road ground. Reeling from the financial consequences of losing this summer's scheduled
MICHAEL STENSGAARD has returned to FC Copenhagen without kicking a ball in anger for Saints. The former Liverpool keeper was brought in from the Danish club in December on a Bosman free transfer but failed to make an impact. He was pushed down the pecking
IF THE young tennis players recruited to Chris Wilkinson's new Bishopstoke academy show half the determination Francis Benali has brought to his Saints career, there will be some new Wimbledon champi-ons on the way. Benali's bulldog breed philosophy has
POOLE Pirates went to the top of the Elite League again with a resounding 61-28 victory over King's Lynn at Poole Stadium last night. Poole put on a powerful display in front of the TV cameras with the Knights down on strength due to an injury to Stefan
HAMPSHIRE'S Middleton Cup team is on course for the quarter-finals of this season's competition if they beat Oxfordshire at the Sports Centre on Saturday (2pm). Last week's exciting win over Berkshire at Reading maintained Hampshire's unbeaten record
WINCHESTER Tennis & Squash Club coach Ashley Read was celebrating this week after one of his emerging squash juniors, Susie King, was ranked sixth in the England under-13 category. King is not the only talent coming through the ranks at the Bereweeke
AN UPTURN in tippler numbers has made Southampton Beer Festival viable once more, but the rise has not been enough to guarantee its long-term future. A question mark had been hanging over the two-day Guildhall event after disappointing attendances in
IT is a classic moment of Sixties pop as Heinz weaves magic on the guitar for chart busting heart-throb Billy Fury. The blond bass guitarist was one of the legendary Tornados who backed Fury in the early sixties and then went on to take the pop world
HYTHE'S fire station is already renowned for being neat and tidy - it was rated "immaculate" at a recent inspection. But its firefighters are leaving nothing to chance as they polish up their fire engine and their station in readiness for their big open
A PLAGUE of tiny spiders threatened to bring Eastleigh's wheels of justice to a halt. Pest controllers were called to the town's courthouse after an epidemic of spiders jeopardised the smooth running of the court. The death sentence was passed on hundreds
A GOSPORT man could face prison after police stopped him late at night with a stolen battery charger and a burglary kit in his car. Paul Hand, 28, of Otter Close, Rowner was convicted of being equipped for breaking into buildings when he appeared before
CHILDREN have been putting their lives at risk by playing in a derelict building being used as a drugs den by heroin addicts. Syringes and needles have been found by youngsters in the former clubhouse at Southampton's Matchpoint Tennis Club in Nursling
CHILDREN have been putting their lives at risk by playing in a derelict building being used as a drugs den by heroin addicts. Syringes and needles have been found by youngsters in the former clubhouse at Southampton's Matchpoint Tennis Club in
HELP the Aged is calling on Hampshire MPs to demand action from the government on long-term care. In the past 12 months, the charity has taken 368 calls from older people in Hampshire who are confused and anxious about their care and how to pay for it
ADRIAN AYMES and the Cork ferry - the two most reliable things on view as Hampshire's 299-6 arm-wrestled them the initiative on the opening day of their PPP Healthcare County Championship match against Glamorgan. The Bristol Channel is a lofted drive
EIGHT thousand miles is a long way to go to college but these Winchester students from the Falklands Islands are still smiling. The students at Peter Symonds' College found themselves being interviewed live on Radio Solent by Alan Jones, on their impressions
IT WAS in 1939 - as the winds of war swept through Europe - that a Hampshire school's first intake of pupils walked in nervously through the door. After 60 years, Sholing Girls School, Southampton continues to go from strength-to-strength. Yesterday's
