Today's principal arrivals and departures Today's principal arrivals: Humbergracht, general cargo, 0430, 107; Estoril, vehicle carrier, 0630, 201; P&O Nerdlloyd Kobe, container, 0700, 207; Werder Bremen, 1700, 102/3; Arco Severn, 1900, Burnley Wharf
HE DIRECTED the blockbusting movie which captured the full horror of war on the Normandy beaches. Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan was his own moving tribute to those D-Day heroes which filled cinemas around the globe. Now a tribute from a group
MOTORISTS set for a weekend out and about around Hampshire are being advised to think again. With major queues expected on the M27, the M3 and the A31 through the New Forest, Hampshire's biggest breakaway routes are set to be traffic-logged today and
A CAMPAIGN for a much-needed ice rink in Hampshire is today under way - backed by professional skating experts and hundreds of local residents. Plans for a championship arena in Totton come as leisure chiefs in Southampton hammer home the final nail in
Ged Harrop has won the Mill Rythe men's singles title at Hayling Island after beating Colin Monk 4-3 in the final. Harrop had been in tremendous form and claimed the scalps of Graham Smith, Martyn Dunford, Martin Hurley and Andy Jenkins on his way to
Half time results from the top clubs in the South Southampton 0 - Tottenham Hotspur 0 Portsmouth 0 - Crewe 1 AFC Bournemouth 0 - Bristol City 1 Converted for the new archive on 25 January 2001. Some images and formatting may have been lost in the conversion
Oyvind Leonhardsen gave a well-drilled Spurs side victory over Saints at the Dell with eight minutes to spare. The Norwegian midfielder drove in from 14 yards from Tim Sherwood's free-kick in a game of few clear-cut chances. Saints then had Claus Lundekvam
New Saints signing Jo Tessem is looking backwards to this afternoon's game against Tottenham. After completing a hush-hush rush to beat the deadline by less than five minutes, the £600,000 capture from Molde admitted his head is in a complete spin. But
TOMORROW is the day that, traditionally, you get out your basin and wooden spoon and start your Christmas preparations by getting to grips with your Christmas pud. Stir-up Sunday is its official title when, on the first Sunday before Advent, the Christmas
TAKE a trip to the tropics - and be home in time for dinner. It sounds impossible, but all you have to do is spare a day to visit the Royal Horticultural Society's gardens at Wisley, just north of Guildford. Wisley's glasshouses include a tropical section
WINE merchants to the Queen, Berry Brothers and Rudd, held a charity event at Swarraton Farm, near Alresford, last week. The wine tasting was in a good cause as a percentage of proceeds from the evening went to the funds of local churches in Northington
PIGS play a big part in Anita Back's life and they don't come much bigger than Hamlet. The oversized Vietnamese pot-bellied pig certainly has a star presence at Anita's Bursledon home and he's more than used to being in the spotlight. Anita, who has had
ANOTHER offering from the fecund pen of 'the world's favourite horror writer!' as he's known to his detractors. Actually, Stephen King seems to be moving further away from the world of nasty things under the bed - one suspects he finds the late 20th century
YOUNG cast members at Southampton's Nuffield Theatre have been acting like little animals (well behaved ones of course!)as they prepare to stage The Wind in the Willows. More than 30 youngsters from across Southampton will take part in the Christmas show
IT has to be the maths teacher's oldest headache - how to divert the attention of football-mad kids away from the school pitch towards the joys of learning arithmetic. The attractions of keepie-ups, dribbling and free-kicks have a tendency to turn more
GOSPORT Borough Council made a top sporting signing in getting Pompey boss Alan Ball to switch on the town's Christmas lights last night. The manager of Portsmouth Football Club said he was delighted to get the town's festivities off to a flying start
THE giraffes at Marwell Zoo are used to visitors, but a visit by a group from South Africa needed them to be given two months of special preparation. A tape recording of the Moods of Africa choir from Langa, Cape Town, was played to the giraffes each
RAMPAGING schoolchildren in Southampton caused mayhem by fighting outside the Civic Centre. Up to 50 pupils from three Southampton different schools, one of them a girls' convent school, were involved in a brawl that stunned staff at the city centre library
DESPERATE parents looking after some of Hampshire's most vulnerable children are victims of a crisis in the region's respite care system. Social services chiefs have launched an urgent appeal to recruit families to ease the mounting pressures on parents
MEASURING just a couple of inches across, it is hard to believe such a small item could soon be the subject of international interest. But the Titanic watch which was at the centre of a high-profile court case is set to hit the headlines again when it
Full time results from the top teams in the South Southampton 0 - Tottenham Hotspur 1 Portsmouth 0 - Crewe 2 AFC Bournemouth 0 - Bristol City 2 Converted for the new archive on 25 January 2001. Some images and formatting may have been lost in the conversion
ALAN Cunningham must serve an automatic one-match ban after being dismissed for two quickfire technical fouls at London Leopards last weekend. Yet for the life of him the Solent Stars player-coach cannot comprehend why he must sit out tonight's National
City of Southampton stand on the brink of a return to top-flight swimming for the first time in seven years after a second straight gala victory in the Speedo National League's Division 2 South. They go into the final six-club gala next month chasing
For 18 years Richard Williams was a well-known voice on BBC Radio Solent but the popular presenter's dulcet tones can now be heard on Ocean FM's evening phone-in show. "I HAD this nightmare before starting the new show where I dreamt I was sitting in
Not a bad town, this. Given a job to do and a bit of money in our pockets, you and I could live there and be reasonably happy.'' That was how the eminent novelist and playwright JB Priestly summed up Southampton when he arrived in the port back in 1933
