HARRY REDKNAPP took over as manager of Portsmouth yesterday but admitted he could have been in charge of Southampton. Saints chairman Rupert Lowe met with Redknapp last summer to discuss the vacant manager's post at St Mary's but instead handed the role
LIFE in the past lane slipped into top gear as Hampshire County Council's Manor Farm Museum threw open its doors for the summer season. Last year, Bursledon's working farm of a bygone age was badly hit by foot-and-mouth precautions. The historic farm
A HAMPSHIRE grandmother has won a top award after sailing across the Atlantic and back at the age of 89. Helen Tew was presented with the Outstanding Achievement in Sport award at the Nojos (Not Old, Just Older) ceremony in London. Mrs Tew, who lives
Today's Principal Arrivings: P&O Nedlloyd Shackleton, container, 0100, 206; Autotransporter, ro/ro, 0600, 201 link; Hojin, vehicle carrier, 0730, 43; Hyundai General, container, 1000, 207; Electron, general, 1200, 47; Autosky, ro/ro, 1700, 43; Egbert
TWO free-skaters, who train at Basingstoke ice rink, have recently auditioned for the professional ice show, Holiday on Ice. Rachel Searle and Sarah Dale decided to try their luck after talking to former company star, Alan Abretti, an ice dance coach
The third year of the Winchester Light Art Project gets under way next Wednesday (April 3rd) as proposals for the 2002 exhibit go on show at the Winchester Gallery. The Light Art Project is a three-year public art programme based in Winchester using light
The Revd Flora Winfield is the new canon pastor at Winchester Cathedral. She will be installed in September. Flora Winfield will take forward the work which was begun by her predecessor, Canon Philip Morgan, before his retirement in May 2001. She will
TOURIST bosses in the New Forest are confident that last year's double disaster has finally been pushed into the background as visitors come flooding back into the area. Tourist attractions, hotels, bed and breakfast businesses, pubs, restaurants and
CATTLE will be back at this year's New Forest Show after being forced out of last year's event by the foot-and-mouth crisis. Show officials had been waiting to receive the all-clear from the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and they
HUNDREDS of Hythe residents are battling to keep a payment point for their electricity key meters. The key charger slot is at Netley View Post Office and Stores and was due to have been switched off permanently on May 31 as part of a change of policy
TOP HATS topped the fashion parade as Doves Pre-school, Totton, celebrated Easter. Most of the group's 45 under-fives turned up for the bonnet cavalcade held in Totton's Christian Centre. Judges Bridget Munday and Kathy Redmen had their work cut out to
THE countdown has begun to a moment in history when the largest, widest, tallest and most expensive passenger liner the world has ever seen arrives in Southampton for the first time. Queen Mary 2 will be like no other ship that has set sail before and
History will be made when Southampton's spectacular 150,000-ton megaliner, Queen Mary 2, the biggest passenger ship the world has seen, arrives in port next year. Cunard's new QM2 will be the first true passenger liner for more than three decades, since
A Southampton dream, born of a past age of luxury, elegance and style, became reality in a vast, cold industrial machine shop in France this week Up to now Queen Mary 2, the most exciting and prestigious passenger liner the world has ever seen, has been
VINTAGE thriller The Ghost Train is getting ready to depart at the Theatre Royal Winchester. The classic 1925 play, written by Arnold Ridley - better-known for playing the doddery, genteel Godfrey in Dad's Army - comes to the Theatre Royal Winchester,
A FAREHAM theatre is looking for the child stars of "tomorrow, tomorrow" to feature in a new production of Annie. The musical - made famous by the 1982 film starring Aileen Quinn as Annie and Albert Finney as Daddy Warbucks - features the famous song
A WOMAN driver was left petrified after a robber leapt into her Land Rover in the middle of a busy shopping area in Southampton. The thief jumped into the passenger seat and shouted: "Drive, drive!" before putting the vehicle in gear as the woman left
SOUTHAMPTON Mars fanatic Dave Holloway has packed his freezer with 1,200 bars - because he's worried he won't like a new version of the chocolate. Dave, who has tucked into a Mars a day for the past 30 years, was devastated when manufacturers announced
THE GOODWILL Fund's annual fun run saw its most successful year yet when 80 people took part in the 2.5km run around Southampton's Westwood Park. Organisers hope the event, which was started five years ago as "a bit of fun", has raised more than £1,000
A FORMER star trainee RAF fighter pilot has been awarded £4.48m in damages for hospital treatment which left him with horrific brain damage. The High Court in London heard earlier this month how Christopher Lynham, 27, from Hampshire, had won the sword
VANDALS left a trail of destruction in a Southampton street after a wrecking spree. The hooligans rampaged along Porchester Road, in Woolston, destroying windscreens and lights on vehicles. The havoc was wreaked on cars parked on the side of the road
THE DIRECTOR of a Southampton-based architectural business that failed with debts of around £200,000 has agreed not to hold directorships or take part in company management for six years. Richard Lowe of Brambles Close, Four Marks, Alton was a director
POOCHES across Southampton have put their best paws forward to take part in a special fundraising event which raised £1,600. Canine Partners for Independence held the 3.5-kilometre sponsored dog walk on Southampton Common on Saturday in a bid to raise
THE GOODWILL Fund's annual fun run saw its most successful year yet when 80 people took part in the 2.5km run around Southampton's Westwood Park. Organisers hope the event, which was started five years ago as "a bit of fun", has raised more than £1,000
ARE hamsters nocturnal? Essex-based Rock/blues trio The Hamsters certainly are. They come out at night to play venues like Southampton's Brook, where you can catch them promoting their latest album on Saturday. Their new CD is aptly titled They Live By
A SLIGHTLY cheaper, but no less talented, alternative to The Three Tenors will be entertaining at the Nuffield Theatre, Southampton on Friday. Michael Clifton-Thompson, Philip Lloyd Holtam and Dewi Wyn - who go by the name of Three Other Tenors - are
Faithless, Southampton Guildhall WHEN it comes to the great dance/popular music crossover then Faithless certainly have it licked. Last night's show was the last of Faithless' tour and boy did they enjoy themselves. Playing to a super-enthusiastic sell-out
Fleet encountered a sterner than expected task at plucky Hamble but clinched a 2-0 win. Their win was secured courtesy of a goal either side of half-time by Ian Mancey, who twice converted after being put through with the goalkeeper to beat.
A MEON Valley village is set to have a new post office in a pub - after residents were left without one for four months. The Bakers Arms in Droxford High Street is the unusual setting for the new sub post office. Landlord Martin Juden is jubilant his
THE long-awaited opening of the link road from Priddy's Hard to the A32 will be a month behind schedule, in May. The news was greeted with dismay by Explosion! museum bosses, who have fallen short of their visitor targets because of inadequate access
A FAREHAM theatre is looking for the child stars of "tomorrow, tomorrow" to feature in a new production of Annie. The musical - made famous by the 1982 film starring Aileen Quinn as Annie and Albert Finney as Daddy Warbucks - features the famous song
A FAREHAM school is celebrating the brainpower of students who came top of the class in a national maths competition. Four pupils at Henry Cort Community School came away with gold certificates in the countrywide maths quiz that tested youngsters' logic
A FORMER star trainee RAF fighter pilot has been awarded £4.48m in damages for hospital treatment which left him with horrific brain damage. The High Court in London heard earlier this month how Christopher Lynham, 27, from Hampshire, had won the sword
HE swapped his dog collar for a Stetson hat to boogie down to the YMCA with the Village People. It was delivered in such style that the Rev David Snuggs soon had his Fair Oak flock rocking in the aisles. In stylish cowboy gear, the vicar became one of
One of P&O's best known ships for many years was the 24,000-ton Stratheden, which had the distinction of reopening the company's Australian service after the Second World War. She was in a class of five vessels which were always called the "Strath
The famous fun-ship of the Union-Castle fleet, the 28,582 ton Pendennis Castle, was on the South African service for only 17 years before being withdrawn in 1976. She was called the fun ship because of the company's efforts to make her more attractive
During 25 year's service in the P&O fleet, the 29,000 ton Arcadia carried 430,000 passengers and steamed 2,650,000 miles, equivalent to 100 times round-the-world. The liner was built by John Brown and Co at Clydebank and was launched in May, 1953.
The 24,700-ton Northern Star, was only 13 years old when she was withdrawn for breaking up. She was victim of dramatic changes which also greatly reduced most other passenger shipping fleets, namely the sharp rise in fuel and operating costs and the increased
A major programme of showcase events will focus global attention on the south's multi-million-pound marine industry this year. Next month delegates from across Europe, together with regional representatives, will gather at Fareham's Ferneham Hall so local
THE business arm of Hampshire-based cable company NTL has clinched a new £8m contract with Southampton's Maritime and Coastguard Agency. The new high profile contract for the emergency services will run for a minimum five-year term and under the deal
Southampton Docks has scooped two prestigious international shipping awards, crowning the port as one of Europe's major centres in the multi-million-pound worldwide cruise industry. News of the awards came as Southampton started its 2002 cruising season
LI TIE can't go shopping in his home city of Liaoning, a 40-minute flight north of Beijing, without being mobbed by excited young fans. But the 24-year-old midfielder cut an anonymous figure at Staplewood yesterday on his first day's training with Southampton
A SOLITARY plaice was worth a staggering £32 an ounce during the Allan's Marine Open at Southsea. The event attracted 200 competitors, including a number of top internationals, and Ian Griffiths, a 46-year-old labourer from Tidworth, used ragworm to catch
A DOZEN doggies weighing 14lb 12oz put Josh Simmonds in the Yeovil Open driving seat at West Bexington. Of the 43 competitors, Ben Assirati was the runner-up with 14lb 4oz, followed by Daniel Mogridge from Fareham 12lb 10oz, Mick Goodger from Southampton
NEW Pompey boss Harry Redknapp says he needs a dramatic overhaul of his squad to challenge for promotion next season - and that could start with the sale of leading scorer Peter Crouch this week. Crouch, who has scored 19 times, is being courted by several
GUY Whittingham is not overly optimistic about Newport's chances of overturning a 2-0 deficit against Aldershot tonight in the Hampshire Senior Cup semi-final, second leg at St George's Park. Although the Islanders are on the crest of a three-match winning
When little Hamish came into the world in January this year, he couldn't have known he was creating his own tiny bit of Hampshire history. For Hamish's birth came at the end of a unique venture which had seen Southampton at the forefront of choice in
TV SOAP EastEnders has left campaigners bidding to raise funds to convert a loo at Hamble Primary School into a computer suite feeling flushed with success. An Albert Square road sign was top of the pops at £155 when it came to a celebrity auction of
Burglars who struck at a home in The Drive, West End, made off with nearly £900-worth of property - including three boxes of potentially-dangerous tablets. Police said Ritalin tablets taken from the house were a controlled drug only available on prescription
A YOUNG chef from Basingstoke has proved she can stand the heat in the kitchen by reaching the final of a top cookery competition. Emily Holbrook, from Mozart Close, Brighton Hill, won the Contract Catering category of the British Meat Chef of the Year
THE boss of a Basingstoke medicine shop has defended his business after it was visited by Government watchdogs following a complaint from an angry mother. The woman, from Pamber End, was unhappy that her 15-year-old daughter had been sold herbal treatments
SOUTHAMPTON skipper Jason Dodd opened a new all-weather football pitch at The Beechdown Club recently. The pitch boasts a revolutionary surface. Designed in Canada the carpet is thicker than normal Astroturf and is supported on a thick mix of silica and
Countryside campaigners are calling for the new South Downs National Park to include chalk downland to the west of Winchester. Winchester Landscape Conservation Alliance has written to the Countryside Agency asking it to rethink its plans. Campaigners
Hampshire swimmers, Laura Chase and Peter Hall, flew the flag in style representing English Schools at the Manx Trophy meet in Inverness. Locks Heath-based Chase, 14, pictured, and who attends Brookfield School in Sarisbury Green, won the junior 200m
SHIRLEY Junior School were the surprise package of the 34th Southampton Schools' Trampoline Championships. The competition attracted 390 competitors, representing 50 different schools, to Taunton's College and Shirley caused the upset of the day by narrowly
TOTTON has joined the battle against plans to build a huge campsite in the heart of the New Forest. The Forestry Commission wants to close the Hollands Wood campsite at Brockenhurst and open a new facility on the other side of the road. The proposed site
FEARS of a 'townie takeover' when the New Forest becomes a national park have sparked concerns among the people who own its ponies and cattle. The New Forest Commoners' Defence Association, which represents the animal owners, made a powerful plea to the
=A Hampshire resident who raised £1,271 for the Breast Cancer Campaign's Shloer Life Cycle was met by Hollyoaks star Terri Dwyer in the glamorous Broadgate Club in London. Glynis Clarke, of Fordingbridge, took part in the event that challenges participants
The sheer scale of Queen Mary 2 makes it one of the most important industrial projects of this century and next year the 150,000 ton passenger liner will make her dramatic entrance in Southampton. Its roots can be found in a past age of luxury, elegance
IT IS a name that will launch a thousand memories, for no other ship in the history of the port of Southampton is thought of with such affection and high regard. Now another Queen Mary is to set sail across the world's oceans proudly carrying the name
FOR many children, running away with the circus is just a dream. But for 12-year-old Gareth Ellis, better known as Bippo, circus life is his life. Bippo is the protg of Zippo - the clowning owner of Zippos Circus, which tours all over the country. Bippo
A CLASSIC of European theatre comes to the Haymarket Theatre, Basingstoke next month. Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts, about the pressures on a loveless marriage in a small town where keeping up appearances is everything, runs at the theatre from April l2-27. Performances
COMMUNITY leaders in a multicultural city neighbourhood rocked by knife-, baseball- bat- and brick-wielding rioters on Sunday night, have spoken of the need not to apportion blame in the event's fragile aftermath. Their call came after more than 100 people
SEVEN suspected asylum-seekers, including four children, were being held at Southampton Central police station after they fled from the back of a French lorry on the M27. The seven, who claim to be from Kurdistan, were spotted by dozens of drivers sitting
Sunset, all the colours, Purple, orange, and red, Soon it will be dark, Time to go to bed. Stars shining in the sky, Tiny spots of light, Millions of them Out all night. The moon is a bright circle, Lighting up the night, When the sun rises up It goes
TRANSPLANT patients in Hampshire are being put at risk because of poor working relations between surgeons, according to a new report. A study into Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust's Wessex regional renal and transplant unit by the Commission for Health
=A MAN was arrested for drink-driving at Gosport police station - after going there to collect his son's DJ equipment. Stephen Erne drove to the police station to pick up the equipment from the station's social rooms, where the youngster had performed
HARDLEY Runners' Malcolm Renyard brought the curtain down on a superb season by winning the 55-plus age-group at the British Veteran Cross-Country Championships in Mansfield. Tucking in behind the leading men's 50 runners, who fought their own battles
IN THE true spirit of Baden-Powell, a Chandler's Ford Scout group which was made homeless after a fire ripped through the roof of its headquarters is determined to carry on. The hut belonging to the Second Chandler's Ford Scout Group at Ramalley, off
PLENTY of competition for British and foreign liners on the North Atlantic in the 1930s was provided by two US Lines' ships, Washington and Manhattan, both more than 24,000 tons each. Although scrapped in the early 1960s memories of both ships remain.
ORIENT Line's 28,000-ton Orsova is remembered as the first passenger liner in the world with an all-welded hull and the first without a mast. The liner, costing £5m, was built by Vickers Armstrong at Barrow, and launched on May 4, 1953, the same day that
Union-Castle Line's Pretoria Castle, which entered the South Africa passenger-cargo service in 1948, was sold in 1965 to the Safmarine Corporation with the result that she was named SA Oranje for the second part of her career. Built by Harland and Wolff
A particularly graceful liner operating from Southampton in the 1930s on full-time cruising was Blue Star Line's 15,000-ton Arandora Star. Her voyages were definitely in the luxury class with cruises costing anything from 22 to 34 guineas, a large amount
By introducing the first hotel-class liner, Transvaal Castle, in the early 1960's, the Union-Castle Line brought a new attitude to ocean travel. Out went the old divisions as there was accommodation for 728 passengers who all shared the public rooms and
In September, 1943 cinema audiences were able to watch a newsreel film of the first exchange of wounded British and German prisoners-of-war, carried out by the hospital ship Atlantis with her Royal Mail Lines crew. During the exchange Atlantis was commanded
IN ADDITION to peacetime voyaging on the South Africa service, the Union-Castle liner, Winchester Castle served during the Second World War as an assault training ship and troopship, and for a time was code-named Radio Diego Suarez. This part of her career
British India Line's centenary year - 1956 - was marked by the handing over of its biggest ship, the 20,527-ton Nevasa. She was the company's 459th vessel and the first troopship built since the end of the Second World War. With accommodation for 500
For many years the 18,500-ton Ruahine called regularly at Southampton on homeward voyages from New Zealand. The ship, whose name meant the "Old Lady'' in the Maori language, was ordered soon after the Second World War by the New Zealand Shipping Company
Sadness touched many homes at Christmas 1963 due to the loss by fire off Madeira of Greek Line's 20,300-ton vessel Lakonia. A total of 90 passengers and 31 crew lost their lives in the disaster about 180 miles off the island. Lakonia, which ran a regular
The 54,300 ton American liner Leviathan enjoyed a high reputation on the North Atlantic in the 1920's and 1930's but began life as the German ship, Vaterland. Launched in 1913 she was the second of two superliners ordered by the Hamburg American Line,
DURING 25 years service the 29,000-ton Arcadia carried 430,000 passengers and steamed 2,650,000 miles, equivalent to 100 times around the world. Today the name lives on in Southampton with the modern day 63,524-ton liner Arcadia now one of the most successful
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Global car manufacturing giant, BMW has appointed Southampton docks-based Auto Shipping (ASL) to be their UK port service provider. As part of a drive to streamline the worldwide deep-sea exporting activities for the new Mini car, ASL will operate essentially
