Michael Henbury talks to SALLY CHURCHWARD about his life as Britain's shortest man... On paper, there may appear to be nothing unusual about Michael Henbury. The 42-year-old from Southampton enjoys his work as a customs officer at the city's docks. His
HAVANT'S dream of a trip to Lord's in the ECB Club Championship was shattered by a heavy sixth round defeat at Bath. The reigning West of England Premier League champions piled up 221-5, Gordon Swinney hitting an unbeaten 103 and Stu Priscott 71, and
AFTER waiting up to four weeks, it took only hours for 44 sets of indefatigable campers to snap up a row of neighbouring homes. The dedicated homeowners are now finally celebrating getting onto the first rung of the housing ladder. Thirty-two groups of
REVISED redevelopment plans for one of Bishop's Waltham's grand old houses have been unveiled. Breamore Developments Ltd has submitted new proposals for homes and flats at Northbrook House in Free Street, once a private house which later became the home
with Waterstone's of Southampton HARDBACK 1 Nigella Bites - Nigella Lawson £20 2 How To Be Good - Nick Hornby £16.99 3 The Thief of Time - Terry Pratchett £16.99 4 The Lost Boy - Dave Pelzer £12.99 5 A Man Named Dave - Dave Pelzer £12.99 6 One For My
A MILKMAN was pushed to the ground before being punched and kicked by a gang of youths who ran off with his £300 takings. The 45-year-old was just about to get back inside his milkfloat when the gang appeared from behind him. He suffered bruising to his
SOLENT Stars' fixture programme will have new look about it next season. League fixtures in the National Conference will begin later than usual in November, allowing time for all the pool matches in the National Trophy to be completed. In another change
PROTESTERS fighting to stop a factory being built in a Hampshire village are taking their case to the High Court. Chilworth Residents' Committee has applied for a judicial review after a controversial application for Chilworth Science Park was given the
BISHOP'S WALTHAM company Gravatom Engineering Systems has produced impressive financial results, demonstrating that engineering and manufacturing in the south is not all doom and gloom. The dynamic engineering company achieved sales of £6.5m in the year
Don't Dress For Dinner, Lee Players, Crofton Community Hall, Stubbington THIS is a marvellously inventive play, a modern classic of the French farce genre, and Lee Players are to be congratulated on choosing such a challenging text. A first act, which
THOUSANDS of nostalgia seeking visitors flocked to the Netley Marsh Steam and Craft Show over the weekend. Organisers say the 31st annual show could have attracted more than 30,000 steam engine fans eager to sample a little bit of history. Throughout
HIS brave battle against cancer touched the hearts of a community. When school teacher Simon Stanley died last August, aged 37, his courage had led to a fund being set up in his name to ease his suffering, which raised £17,000 in just six months. But
REGULARS at a school homework club have given an A-plus to an innovative scheme which has enabled them to buy £500 of new computer equipment - thanks to funding from kerb-crawlers. Hard-working pupils at Mount Pleasant Junior School, Southampton, are
CHART-TOPPERS Atomic Kitten are hoping to create a big bang with a personal appearance in Southampton on Friday. The popular girl group will be meeting fans when they drop in at Virgin Megastore to help promote their new single, a cover of the Bangles
A MEDLEY of musical styles brought hundreds of people to swinging Southampton at the weekend. The annual Festival of Live Music featured a massive variety of styles, from folk to funk and almost everything in between. The two-day event, at Mayflower Park
IT'S got everything from Brazilian to boogie to the Silver Beatles. In fact, the one thing you won't find at Winchester's Tower Water Music Festival is any water. The free festival, hosted by The Tower arts centre and Winchester City Council, was originally
IWAN THOMAS has vowed to bounce back a stronger athlete next year after his world championship hopes went up in smoke at Crystal Palace last night - by just one tenth of a second. Southampton's European and Commonwealth champion cut a disconsolate figure
A MODEST shopper has been hailed a hero for tackling a robber armed with a fake Uzi machine gun - forcing him to flee empty-handed. The 55-year-old blocked a shop door as a masked man ran out of the One Stop community store at Redlands Lane, Fareham,
YOUNGSTERS at Park Gate Primary School near Fareham, are having a roaring time as part of their combined book and art week. Pupils of all ages have been letting their creative talents run free to come up with pieces of art based on the theme of "creatures
It's James Bleachie! There's a new look to the Saints attack, even though it is still led by James Beattie. Last season's top scorer shocked Saints fans at Swindon on Saturday by sporting a blonde bombshell look. Beattie played his part in a comfortable
MATTHEW LE TISSIER is looking for a Dutch treat to keep his bandwagon rolling for the new season. After three years wrecked by injury, the Saints star is bouncing back to form and fitness. He has followed up last season's sensational Dell finale with
SAINTS put one over their former boss Glenn Hoddle with this one-sided victory at Swindon. Tottenham won 3-1 at the County Ground last week but Stuart Gray's men went one better by keeping a clean Sheet in a 3-0 victory. And they might easily have doubled
He was one of the greatest sporting heroes of his time and an inspiration to sportsmen today. John May looks back at the life of Lionel Tennyson WHEN a man has fought almost through the full four-year term of The Great War and been wounded three times
NEWPORT 0 POMPEY 1 WHILE record £1.25 million signing Peter Crouch already looks like part of the furniture at Portsmouth, his Fratton Park predecessor Guy Whittingham still has some settling-in to do with non-League Newport. Hardly surprising, really
HASLAR task force members are hoping to pick up tips from an NHS campaigner who pulled off one of the biggest surprises of the general election. Gosport MP Peter Viggers, who has also criticised his Labour election opponent over Royal Hospital Haslar,
EASTON & Martyr Worthy are through to the Wadworth 6X Village Championship quarter-finals after a stunning nine-wicket win over Swardeston in Norfolk. The Winchester club bowled and fielded superbly to dismiss the East Anglian champions for 92 - Shaun
A LAST-ditch bid to lure supermarket giant Waitrose from Chandler's Ford to Eastleigh town centre has been sunk by Eastleigh council's executive cabinet. Tory leader Councillor Godfrey Olson wanted the authority to draw Waitrose's attention to its Eastleigh
Passenger numbers using Southampton International Airport continue to grow with the latest figures showing that 80,800 people used the terminal last month. This is an increase of 1.7 per cent on the same period last year and brings the passenger total
A SOUTHAMPTON teenager was left fighting for his life after a brutal gang attack by up to 15 youths. Sean Kelly, 19, needed emergency surgery over the weekend to remove a blood clot from his brain following the attack. His father Gerry today spoke of
Southampton hospital staff have taken to the streets to protest against what they see as pay discrimination. More than 30 health workers from the city's hospitals marched through the centre of Winchester with banners and placards on Saturday. They are
THE NUMBER of teachers on standby to help under-achieving Hampshire schools is set to rise as part of plans drawn up by county education chiefs. Classroom staff are also to be given extra training to enable them to aid colleagues who are forced to physically
CAMPAIGNERS against mobile phone masts joined forces across Hampshire in a day of protest at the spreading forest of dishes and aerials allegedly sending out invisible rays causing death and illness. Torchlight vigils were held, leaflets and posters distributed
CUPID'S arrow struck among a troupe of historic re-enactment actors as life mirrored history at Fareham's Elizabethan fair. The annual Earl of Southampton Fayre, in the picturesque grounds of Titchfield Abbey, attracted more than 2,000 people to see and
WEB watchers could soon be clicking on live to Eastleigh council debates thanks to a demand from Whitehall to meet a target of getting electronic government by 2005. Members of Eastleigh's executive cabinet were told the council had an end-of-the-month
LIBERAL Democrats have lost a seat on New Forest District Council - after forgetting to enter a by-election. The Lib Dems destroyed their chances of retaining the Marchwood seat by missing the deadline for nominations. The embarrassing blunder meant Thursday's
PROTESTERS fighting plans for a huge container port at Dibden Bay are today celebrating a potential breakthrough in their campaign. Moves to expand the docks at Rotterdam have been put on ice after a groundbreaking agreement between port authorities and
Fifteen inmates have killed themselves at Winchester Community Prison in the last four-and-a-half years. Can a new governor turn the problem-stricken jail around? ALI KEFFORD and ANDREW NAPIER report... PAUL Ferguson was 26 years old when he committed
Justin Rose holed a huge putt on the last green at Royal Lytham to secure his second sub-par round of Open week, then vowed "I'll win this title one day." The Hampshire golfer, 21 next week, specialises in big finishes. Who can forget his wonderous chip
THE difference between Neil Johnson's second one-day century of the season and his first was that this time he finished on the winning side. The Zimbabwean all-rounder was full of self-recrimination after his 113 at Durham in the C&G Trophy early
New Toddler Taming, by Dr Christopher Green, is published by Vermilion, priced £12.99. Over the past two decades many fraught mothers have turned in desperation to Dr Christopher Green. It is nearly 20 years since the good-humoured, down-to-earth paediatrician
Today's Principal Arrivings: Hyundai Emporer, container, 1000, 206; Sirius P, misc, AM, 102; Southern Carrier, ro/ro, AM, 25 link; APL Malaysia, container, 2300, 207. Today's Principal Sailings: Porto Express, ferry, 0300, 25; Aegean Breeze, vehicle carrier
Motorcycle ace Norman White from Andover has confirmed his participation in the 2001 Silverstone Historic Festival. He will compete as part of a 40-strong grid of the most exciting Formula 750 and Unlimited four-stroke classic racing motorcycles in the
COUNTY president Allyson Flint hit peak form to help Hampshire defeat the Isle of Wight in their annual women's association friendly at Totland, writes David Briers. Flint triumphed 30-8 on her rink in Hampshire's 139-112 victory. Hampshire also won their
THEY are the unsung heroes of the office who keep their heads when all those around them are losing theirs. The skills, techniques and abilities of the region's very best secretaries were recognised at a ceremony on Friday. Hundreds of secretaries from
SOUTHAMPTON-based Clipper Ventures, the AIM quoted yacht racing, marine events, hospitality and training company, has announced six key appointments. Alison Smith, Kelly Gilkison, Jeremy Knight, Carol Blyth, Marie Creed-Helliwell and Victoria White will
SOUTHAMPTON detectives stayed up late on Saturday night in the hope of piecing together the final minutes of a student's life before he was killed on the M27. A team of five officers handed out 400 leaflets to clubbers and put up posters at the city's
HAMPSHIRE'S own TV gardening celebrity, Charlie Dimmock, had her feet firmly off the ground when she rose to a charity abseiling challenge. The star of BBC's Ground Force took the plunge on Saturday alongside blind Hampshire man Paul Winchcombe, in an
MORE than 300 locals have got the hump over a traffic-calming scheme in a busy Eastleigh road that they say just doesn't work. Now, people power has won the day and civic chiefs are set to take a long hard look at bringing in a 20mph speed limit for Shakespeare
THERE was music and dancing in the park as children's charity Home-Start Eastleigh launched a volunteer recruitment drive. Local musicians were invited to perform on the bandstand at the Leigh Road recreation ground and there was entertainment from the
