Jeremy Wilson spent an afternoon with Saints legend Danny Wallace... THERE was a sense of anticipation about meeting Danny Wallace. But it was different from the usual feeling which can accompany interviewing a well-known sportsman. There were a few more
TAFFY Richardson reckons Winchester City are a better footballing side than the club they hope to emulate in tomorrow's FA Vase final. But the man who led Wimborne Town to Wembley glory back in 1992 reckons the key to beating AFC Sudbury at St Andrews
LYMINGTON & New Milton's FA hearing against racial abuse charges has been pencilled in for July 2 - almost eight months after the alleged event. The charges relate back to the Linnets' ill-tempered FA Vase third round tie against Buckingham Town on
SHANE WARNE and Paul Terry had a text marathon while Hampshire completed a stunning 119-run win against the title favourites. Hampshire made it six wins in seven in both forms of the game - but at Headingley yesterday they managed their most impressive
MICHAEL DIGHTON can't wait to put himself in county cricket's shop window. The 28-year-old was on Wednesday named as Hampshire's FOURTH overseas signing of 2004. The Tasmania top order batsman, a state colleague of soon-to-be Hampshire all-rounder Shane
THIS BIOGRAPHY OF British actor Sir Michael Redgrave, who died in 1985 aged 77, lifts the lid on a talented but ultimately tragic figure and focuses heavily on his unconventional sex life. Alan Strachan, who directed some of Redgrave's last appearances
DARIEN DOGS' DUST JACKET makes grand claims. It claims the book's portrayal of washed-up Westerners adrift in the developing world has "echoes of Graham Greene with an imaginative depth, an erotic, muscular charge and a dark, compulsive energy all its
This week's best-selling hardbacks supplied by Waterstone's for week ending 15 May 2004. 1 (1) Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach To Punctuation by Lynne Truss 2 (-) A Hat Full Of Sky by Terry Pratchett 3 (2) Sharpe's Escape by Bernard
This week's best-selling paperbacks supplied by Waterstone's for week ending 15 May 2004. 1 (1) The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time (Adult Edition) by Mark Haddon 2 (4) The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold 3 (6) The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Today's Principal Arrivals: Nobleza, ro/ro, 0030, 202; Nedlloyd Asia, container, 0100, 207; Sloman Traveller, ro/ro, 0430, 102; CFF Solent, ro/ro, 0530, 25; Aurora, cruise, 0645, 106; Jewel of the Seas, cruise, 0700, 38/9; Jingu Maru, vehicle, 0730, 34
LESLEY BALL, wife of Saints and England legend Alan, has lost her long, brave battle against cancer. She died at a Basingstoke Clinic in the early hours today with all her family around her. Lesley, who was 57, had been at the clinic several weeks after
SOMETHING stirred in the dark of the ship's hold. There was a sudden movement and a brief scuttling sound. Could it be the beast of the bananas? Southampton stevedores have always been, and remain to this day, a fairly robust bunch, tackling some of the
WOW! What a wallaby. This washing powder-white bundle of bounce has just been born at Paultons Park, near Ower in the New Forest. The arrival of little Snowdrop was a bit of a shock for mum Primrose, whose fur is the normal wallaby-brown. But albino joeys
A NEW radio station is hitting the airwaves in and around Southampton for two weeks from today and, according to its organisers, it's going to be in a league of its own. Loop FM is a community radio station aimed at young people living in the city. It
SOMETHING stirred in the dark of the ship's hold. There was a sudden movement and a brief scuttling sound. Could it be the beast of the bananas? Southampton stevedores have always been, and remain to this day, a fairly robust bunch, tackling some of the
NEIL Hards has a dossier "as thick as the Yellow Pages" on the team that stands between Winchester City and FA Vase glory at St Andrews tomorrow (3pm). But no matter what the threat posed by last year's beaten finalists AFC Sudbury, Hards insists his
HARRY Redknapp emerged from two-hour showdown talks with Portsmouth chairman Milan Mandaric yesterday still manager - for now at least. Redknapp was summoned from the training ground to Fratton Park to discuss his future with the Serbian multi-millionaire
JO napot kivanok! This was the first phrase to come back to me as the plane landed in Budapest, capital of Hungary, where 12 years ago I lived as an English teacher. It means an enthusiastic hello. I was taking part in the poetry festival to celebrate
UNTIL 6.42pm yesterday evening, Hampshire had not beaten Yorkshire for 14 years. But they beat the Tykes for the first time in 17 championship matches at Headingley to reinforce their position at the top of the table. And all this without Shane Warne
A CARER cleared of stealing from an elderly man she looked after has today spoken of her anger that the case ever came to court. Tracey Hiscock, 37, stood in the dock with her eyes closed as the jury foreman read out not guilty verdicts on seven charges
THREE men wanted by police in connection with a shooting in a Southampton pub car park are today still at large. Officers want to talk to the trio after a handgun was fired behind The Mitre pub in Portswood Road. Police launched a major investigation
A CHARITY which gives Hampshire schoolchildren a rare taste of the movies has been forced to shut - while bosses responsible for slashing its grant are rubbing shoulders with the rich and famous at the Cannes film festival. Among Southern Film Education's
ONE of Hampshire's biggest teaching unions yesterday postponed balloting its 4,000 members on strike action over a six-term year. The National Association of Schoolmasters and Union of Women Teachers will wait until a crunch meeting with the Local Government
PROTESTERS picketed a Hampshire animal testing laboratory amid claims that scientists are testing the beauty treatment Botox on mice. Campaigners waved banners and shouted slogans outside Wickham Research Laboratories in Wickham. Eight members of pressure
POLICE officers could be kitted out with state-of-the-art gadgets to tackle crime on Hampshire's streets, under radical new plans. Cops on the beat should carry hi-tech palm-sized computers, mobile phones, pocket digital cameras and sophisticated forensic
