He's the new leader of Southampton City Council. Yet for many, Lib Dem leader Adrian Vinson remains an enigma. David Newble met the city's most powerful politician... HE has a degree in history from Cambridge University. He was the president of the Cambridge
Lady Montagu may be a very privileged woman yet she spends her time fundraising for 22 charities and educating city children about the countryside. ALI KEFFORD caught up with one very busy lady... SLEEPING in a mud hut on the banks of an African river
A few weeks ago, I set the theme of journeys for a competition to win a copy of Paul Hyland's book about a famous journey - Walter Ralegh's Last Journey. The subject certainly got you thinking. I had entries about journeys of the soul as well as the body
This week's best-selling books... 1. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5) - J.K. Rowling 2. Life of Pi - Yann Martel 3. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 4. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5) Adult Edition - J.K. Rowling 5.
Will you be packing the latest Marian Keyes novel in your holiday hand luggage, or would you rather go for Tony Hawks's humorous anecdotes on his travels or a taut psychological thriller by Nicci French? These are just a few of the bestselling authors
Today's Principal Arrivals: Rantum, general, 0230, 102/3; Arabian Breeze, ro/ro, am, 202; Laura C, general, am, 103; Federal, container, 2100, Con term; Harmony Ace, ro/ro, pm, 40. Today's Principal Sailings: CMA CGM Voltaire, container, 0830, 206; Oosterdam
West Side Story - The Performing Arts Company, The Point, Eastleigh MEMORABLE music enhances this love story which includes two stabbings, brutal gang battles and a fatal shooting. The range of music proved too ambitious for some of the young company
MYSTERY surrounds the future of one of Hampshire's most popular art galleries. The Beatrice Royal Contemporary Art and Craft Gallery in Eastleigh - the biggest of its kind in the UK - will close indefinitely at the end of August. But staff at the gallery
A DIVER working for a Fareham firm has died while clearing underwater mines off the coast of southern Iraq. Peter Rudorf was an employee at Sub-Surface Engineering, based at the town's Delta Business Park. The company has now launched an investigation
ONE of Hampshire's top shows got off to a soggy start yesterday as heavy showers kept the crowd away. The three-day Netley Marsh Steam and Craft Show is normally blessed by blazing sunshine, but people attending the opening day were subjected to an unseasonal
HAMPSHIRE'S naked rights campaigner Steve Gough is walking along the Pennine Way with his nationwide nude trek firmly back on track. The 44-year-old Eastleigh father of two, pictured right, set off on his controversial "freedom of expression" journey
I still remember the road to oblivion, Running on the road to oblivion On the road to nowhere. Because nowhere was where I wanted to go, Nowhere was where I wanted to go! But now I know more, yes I know! That on my journeys I must find the life That I
To cruise or not to cruise - something I've never done before. To sail in style from place to place, and have many trips ashore. I've come aboard the Canberra, a lovely, homely boat For three weeks now this grand old girl has been my home afloat. Palma
Much Ado About Nothing - West Meon Players, West Meon House WITH just ten days rehearsal time, this group achieved a standard of Shakespeare rarely seen in am dram. Superbly directed by Mary Dawson, the fabulous setting of West Meon House was used to
BRAVE Penny Smith will put the trauma of the past few months behind her when a golfing fundraiser day tees off in her honour this weekend. Penny's world was turned upside down when she was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 23. She has just completed
A PENSIONER died after his car was in collision with another car pulling a caravan. Victor Dodson, 80, was taken to Southampton General Hospital following the accident on Shakespeare Road, Eastleigh, at about 10.55am yesterday. Mr Dodson, who lived in
ABOUT 50,000 of Hampshire's 115,000 lamp posts are sub-standard and need to be replaced - but it would take over a century to do the work if the county does not get extra government cash. That's one of the key findings of a hard hitting report into the
MOVIE stardom has arrived late in life for Hampshire pensioner May Belbin. But at least it has given the 95-year-old the chance to relive the glory days of her youth. When Mrs Belbin was pretty young May Yearsley, she did her bit for the Second World
THIS YEAR'S Race for Life was bigger and better than ever - and that's official. Southampton was the eighth largest race in the country and saw 600 more women take part this year than in 2002. Bristol and Cardiff both ran the largest races with 10,000
TOP MUSICIANS from around the globe will be taking centre stage for Eastleigh's first summer music festival which gets underway on Monday. Bands from Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America will appear in a series of free lunchtime World Music concerts
I knew an incredible love; open hearted folk, welcoming, taking strength from one another. A cornucopia of cultures. We were a beautiful people. The sacred Chalice; surface crackled and dented, now a flower pot. Mother earth provided our needs. Naked,
SOUTHAMPTON'S Steve Curtis is aiming for another place in the powerboating record books tomorrow. Should he win the Class I British Powerboat Grand Prix off Plymouth, he will become the most successful racer in the sport's 40-year history. Curtis, 39,
