IT'S an ongoing battle for Tadley's litter wardens as they take on the town's litter louts. Dave Owen and Roy Martin both work for Tadley Town Council and spend every weekday morning scouring the town's streets for old cigarette packets, drinks bottles
PUPILS at two Basingstoke secondary schools have been asked to sift through their own rubbish in a bid to reduce the amount of waste they produce. Earlier in the year, pupils at Bishop Challoner and Cranbourne schools took part in a Basingstoke council
NOT one of the everyday folk who leave things behind, but more like the womble Madame Cholet, Maureen Dowsett has waged war on litter in a Basingstoke suburb for 25 years - and she has notched up two awards in the process. Now the award-winning litter
GREG LAMB has played himself into Hampshire's Twenty20 side for the opening match against the Essex Eagles at Chelmsford on Friday. Zimbabwean Lamb's two innings against the Southern Electric Premier League have been the one positive from Hampshire's
NEW accusations of behind-the-scenes deal-making have been levelled at two Independent councillors after they gained influential positions on Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council committees. The Liberal Democrat/Labour joint administration was kept in
THE new leader of Basingstoke council says he is going to tread carefully as he heads the joint Liberal Democrat/Labour administration for the next year. Liberal Democrat leader Brian Gurden was elected to the hot seat by a single vote at last Thursday's
NEW exhibition of artefacts recovered from Southampton's most famous ship, the Titanic, goes on display at London's Science Museum this summer. The "unsinkable" White Star liner sank off the Canadian coast in the early hours of April 15, 1912 after hitting
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It is perhaps the best known of all Southampton stories. It tells of courage, sorrow, bravery and survival. As the years roll by few remain behind who were actually around in Southampton on that day in 1912, when the legendary White Star liner, Titanic
BRAVE Annie Caton could not have picked a worse time to start working on ocean liners. For the 50-year-old took her first cruise ship job on the Titanic - which famously embarked on its maiden voyage from Southampton - as a Turkish bath attendant. But
SOUTHAMPTON'S leading Titanic expert has criticised a project designed to solve one of the most enduring mysteries of the world's biggest shipwreck. Canadian researchers hope to discover the identity of a baby who drowned when the liner was holed by an
Of all the seafaring stories linked to Southampton there is one that will never die as generation after generation continues to be fascinated by the ill-fated Titanic. The details of the "unsinkable'' Titanic, lost beneath the Atlantic waves on her maiden
THIS is the iceberg which sank Southampton's ill-fated liner, Titanic beginning a story that refuses to die even after 90 years. Now one of the last three Titanic survivors, Millvina Dean from Southampton is to see the rare photograph when she is guest
EASTLEIGH & District AC put on their best National Young Athletes'League performance to finish third at Salisbury with a club high 472 points. Hero of the hour was young Eliott Chudleigh who scooped the athlete-of-the-match award for his double sprint
With all Saturday cricket called off due to the weather, the Powell's sponsored club took time out to reflect of the season to date. Toby Radford and Mark Miller are first and second respectively, in the run scorers' table for the Southern Electric Premier
WITH a packed house to witness the finals of the singles and pairs competition the onlookers witnessed a night of nostalgia, as Pete Hainer from the Wolversdene Club A rolled back the years and won the singles title, beating Trevor James from Chute Club
Many of Andover Golf Club's members were up with the lark recently for the annual Dawn Chorus golf competition. With start times available from 5am until 6.30am it was the prospect of one of Pat Lambell's cooked breakfasts after the event that kept most
Andover Swallows bounced back from their first defeat of the season with a comprehensive home victory against Southampton Q World A on Friday evening. The first session started strongly for the home side with victories from Kevin Vane and Steve Moody.
Longparish Cricket Club and their sponsors, Barker, Son and Isherwood (BSI) Solicitors hosted the second BSI Village Cup cricket competition. It began last year, attempting to re-capture the simple enjoyment of village cricket, pitching one village against
OWING to the inclement weather last week some matches had to be rearranged. The C team had to postpone their away match at Howard Park and the A team's home match with Marnell was cancelled. However the B team won 5-0 at home to Hook A. Also last week
Andover Golf Club's ladies section have had a busy time since the start of the year. The ladies February Medal saw Sue Davis in first place with a net 74, Margaret Ashley second with a net 75 and Audrey Welfare third with a net 77. The February Stableford
It could be the end of the trail for a riding school in Colden Common, built without planning permission. The indoor centre, at Bow Lake Farm, Portsmouth Road, faces demolition after the development control committee of Winchester City Council refused
Winchester was again a world stage for writers at the weekend. First arrivals for the city's 24th annual Writers' Conference came from New York, Nairobi, Connecticut, Italy, Tenerife, the Netherlands and Paris. The numbers swelled with writers from all
Concerns have been raised about the multi-million-pound new library proposed for Winchester. City councillors have confirmed they will invest £1m and give up a chunk of their Jewry Street car park to allow the £7m expansion. The county council wants to
Year 6 pupils of Oliver's Battery School, Winchester, in a scene from their open-air production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. The fairy queen (Alexandra Grant) is sung and danced to sleep by her fairies in her bower. Literacy teacher and director, Mark
Vandals have ruined a new riverside display, which is to be part of Winchester in Bloom. Flowers have been ripped from boxes along the weirs, opposite Winchester City Mill and thrown into the water, some boxes were completely emptied. Police are now investigating
CIVIC leaders, politicians and war veterans turned out to support the fight to keep a priceless collection of military ships in Hampshire. The British Military Powerboat Trust has been told it must ship out its collection of 18 wartime vessels from its
BRAVE Joshua Hartley could be home in a matter of weeks after amazing doctors with his speedy recovery. That's the latest news from Great Ormond Street Hospital, where the 12-year-old Romsey schoolboy received a life-saving bone marrow transplant from
ANTI-litter campaigners fed up with abandoned and wrecked shopping trolleys left lying around Tidworth have taken part in a trolley dash with a difference. The group, mostly made up of Tidworth parish councillors, wheeled the trolleys from the town's
THE rain managed to keep away for most of the day on Sunday as thousands gathered in Walworth Sports Ground for this year's Andover Show. Around 4,000 people turned out on Sunday to take part in fun activities such as ferret racing, John Walls Funfair
A FREE event was held in Andover Guildhall on Saturday by Hampshire Children and Families Forum (HCFF) together with Test Valley Borough Council. The idea behind the day was to provide a fun event for people to find out about services which could benefit
Road to nowhere? REFERRING to an article in your sports coverage (June 25th), I am left at a loss to understand why it is that football administrators in this county seen more intent on taking the game away from us rather than administering it. The story
SPORTS Week is anything but run-of-the-mill for pupils at Titchfield Primary School. For their wacky five-day sportsfest includes fun-packed sessions of golf, horse-riding, kick-boxing, rugby, trampolining, lacrosse, aerobics, body-building and ten pin
SOUL legend Geno Washington and his Ram Jam Band bring their sweet soul music to The Corn Exchange, Newbury, on Friday, July 9, at 7.45pm. Among the bands that have come to define the explosion of popular music in the '60s - The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix,
Angry residents of one Winchester street are demanding CCTV to beat vandalism and anti-social behaviour. People in St Swithun Street were furious when their cars were among 70 targeted by vandals in the largest wrecking spree of its kind in Winchester
Hampshire council taxpayers may have to foot the bill for a burgeoning black hole in the local authority pension fund. The £271m deficit in 2001 was predicted to more than triple to £970m by 2004, according to a report by the county treasurer. A three-yearly
DRIVERS in Southampton who have not paid their parking fines had better beware. City transport bosses have warned thousands of motorists in the city that they will be sending in the bailiffs if they do not stump up the cash for parking illegally. The
THEY might do it on Broadway, or in the West End, or even at the Mayflower Theatre - but the Freemantle United Reformed Church Hall in Shirley? Part-time amateur actors will be taking to the stage tonight in their latest production - stark naked. It's
ONE of Britain's best-loved aircraft, designed in the 1920s by an aviation firm in Hampshire, looks set to be saved from the scrapheap thanks to a lottery grant of more than £2.7m. The Vulcan to the Sky campaign aimed to restore Britain's last remaining
SEA rescues by coastguards in and around the Solent rocketed by nearly 30 per cent last year. New statistics revealed the number of incidents off a stretch of coastline running from Beachy Head in East Sussex to Barton on Sea rose from 1,215 to 1,546
YESTERDAY saw the minor injuries unit at Andover War Memorial Hospital close overnight for the first time as major changes to the way Andover patients access health services kicked in. From last night the unit no longer provides a 24 hour service and
A GUARD of honour formed by brownies from the 1st West Tytherley pack greeted the Countess of Wessex when she paid a visit to Norman Court Preparatory School this week. For the full story see FRiday's Andover Advertiser.
MEN in skirts and Austin Powers were the inspirations for Cricklade College's recent fashion show. Art and design students used psychedelic colours and bold 60s patterns for their creations. The first year students in fashion and textiles had been told
Henry V - Titchfield Festival Theatre, Titchfield Abbey FOLLOWING his father's death, the erstwhile wild young Prince Henry accedes to the English throne as Henry V. Kingship forces Henry to leave behind his drunken ways and he matures into a charismatic
ONE of Southampton's leading music venues is to close for four months for a £500,000 refurbishment. The Brook in Portswood Road - which has played host to performers such as Paul Young, the Silver Beatles and Steve Harley, stages just two more gigs, La
Grand day for Pitcher and Naomi House Romsey Golf Club's James Pitcher earned the biggest payday of his professional career when he won the £1,000 first prize in the Captain's Charity Pro-Am at Royal Winchester Golf Club last Friday (June 25th). The 25
PAUL STURROCK will welcome back the vast majority of his Saints squad on Monday for pre-season training. The end-of-season injury nightmare when 12 of the first-team were out of action has now eased, with Michael Svensson the only player currently still
THE very model of a witty, wacky and wonderfully high-energy musical comes to Guildford's Yvonne Arnaud Theatre when the GSA Conservatoire students return to the stage with The Pirates of Penzance from July 9 to 17. An acclaimed, updated version of Gilbert
VIC Lee is a man on a mission. With more than 245 square miles of urban and rural roads under his care, and a small army of staff at his command, it is his job to co-ordinate everything from rubbish collection to pest control. Mr Lee, who is the head
LITTER - Let's Bin It. That's the message of the latest phase of The Gazette's Basingstoke - A Place To Be Proud Of campaign. Last September, The Gazette launched the campaign which aims to focus on the people and organisations that make the town and
WINCHESTER City's FA Vase-winning skipper Danny Smith is holding fire on a possible move to Dorchester Town because he wants to play in the Conference National. Magpies boss Mark Morris says his Conference South new boys will pay City whatever fee is
HAMPSHIRE slumped to a second successive Twenty20 defeat against a Southern Electric Premier League select XI at BAT's Southern Gardens last night. The Hawks lost a thriller by ten runs after being bowled out for 142 in response to the SEPL's 152-6 -
MARK STONE and Alan Whitman produced stunning individual bowling performances to sweep Sparsholt and St Cross Symondians into the Winchester & District CA's Tichborne Trophy final at the Norman Edwards Ground. Stone snapped up five wickets in seven
THERE are some stories from Southampton's past that just refuse to fade away, none more so than that of the ill-fated liner, Titanic. Interest in the White Star liner that sank with a huge loss of life after hitting an iceberg on her maiden voyage to
A FORMER West End resident and crew member of White Star Line's Titanic has had a road named after him more than 90 years after he perished in a watery grave. Thirty-five-year-old Jim Jukes, who lived in Moorgreen Road, sailed as a greaser on the Titanic's
A GOLD watch and silver medal presented to a ship's engineer who helped rescue survivors after the sinking of the Titanic was sold for £14,100 at auction last night. Together with photographs and documents, the watch and medal were expected to fetch between
SCIENTISTS have solved the 90-year-old riddle of the identity of an infant who perished when the Titanic sank on its maiden voyage from Southampton. For years the 13-month-old boy buried in a Canadian graveyard as "An Unknown Child" was thought to have
A SET of medals that once belonged to the last person to have stepped off the Titanic before the liner's doomed maiden voyage were sold at auction yesterday for £23,000. Hundreds of bidders from around the globe competed for the medals of Captain Benjamin
BIDDERS from around the world were today due to vie for a rare set of medals that once belonged to a man reputed to be the last person to have stepped off Titanic before the liner's ill-fated maiden voyage. The medals, which could fetch up to £40,000,
A HAMPSHIRE survivor of the Titanic disaster has slammed American manufacturers who have made a novelty inflatable slide based on the liner. Millvina Dean, 90, was just nine weeks old when the liner struck an iceberg in 1912, claiming the lives of more
MORE than 1,500 workers at Southampton's vast British American Tobacco factory today have a new boss. He is Jan du Plessis, who takes over the reins at the seed-to-smoke tobacco giant from previous chairman Martin Broughton who today starts as British
COALPORTERS celebrated their first Hants and Dorset Ladies' Senior Championship with champagne and kisses after their win at Itchen Imperials Regatta. And BTC' s Senior Four celebrated their qualification for this week's Royal Henley Regatta's Britannia
With the pre-season friendlies for some clubs beginning next week, for others the new term seems light years away as the non-league re-structuring came back to haunt them. Those clubs who choose not to join the expanded Wessex League for various reasons
Fawley v Amport In weather more akin to aquatic birds the Black Swan-sponsored Amport made the long journey south to face an in form Fawley keen to jump into the top three. Driving through steady rain Amport were surprised to find the Fawley ground as
Colden Common v Broughton The weather was always going to play a large part in this game as, after the teams had exchanged a number of phone calls due to persistent rain, they met up at Colden Common Park for a damp start but a playable pitch. Broughton
The formation of a new American Football club came to fruition earlier this year and is the brain-child of experienced player/coach Andy Mountain, a teacher at Harrow Way School in Andover. He was joined by a group of more than a dozen players of all
Andover Wheelers held their second championship event recently, a 30-mile time trial from Andover to Micheldever, Sutton Scotney, Winchester and then returns to Andover. It was won by Jake Prior last year and he was looking to defend his title from last
Residents are worried about city council plans to reverse traffic along two Winchester streets. Public pressure forced civic chiefs to carry out further consultation with residents before embarking on an 18-month experiment to reverse the flow in Parchment
A £1m+ building programme at St Faith's Primary School, Winchester, was opened this week by the Bishop of Winchester, the Rt Revd Michael Scott-Joynt. As a Church of England school, St Faith's governors had to meet 10% of the cost, with the other 90%
A HOST of Hampshire schools are celebrating after being given clearance for specialist status. The selected schools will be given a £100,000 grant from the government and £126 per pupil over the next four years to boost their areas of expertise. Today's
NEW out-of-hours healthcare arrangements swing into action across part of Hampshire today. After months of planning, systems have been put in place to launch a new scheme for anyone needing a GP outside normal surgery hours. From today, local primary
POET and artist Terry Boon is launching a campaign to improve arts facilities in Andover. Terry, a true Cockney who moved to Andover 11 years ago, has not had an easy time of it. He used to earn his living as a busker playing the guitar in London, Amsterdam
DRIZZLY June weather may have halted a day's play at Wimbledon, but it didn't deter Andoverians from supporting Saturday's carnival. Defiant crowds turned out in their waterproofs to see the floats and colourful marchers entertaining children and collecting
ANDOVER leisure centre has joined hundreds of other clubs and leisure centres in a bid to get the nation active and raise thousands of pounds for charity. Now in its 13th year, the national campaign Commit to Get Fit has introduced more than 500,000 people
TIDWORTH needs an extra 2,000 additional private homes otherwise its business, leisure and social facilities will wither away, says the town's most senior policy making group. The Tidworth Community Area Partnership has backed the need for the extra homes
A BAND from Netley has won a place in the finals of a national "battle of the bands" contest. Teenage four-piece Rival Joustas have come first in local heats of the Emergenza competition and will take their place in the national final of the competition
A REGULATORY committee of Kennet planners could decide the fate of one of Wiltshire's most historic inns on 12 August. An application to close the Crown at Everleigh and develop the area for housing has met with significant opposition since it was first
SOUTHAMPTON Jazz Society hosts its third annual Jazz on a Summer Night concert in the gardens of Abbey Hotel, Romsey on July 13. The picnic-style concert starts at 7.30pm. Tickets are available from the Romsey Heritage and Visitor Information Centre.
WINCHESTER City's FA Vase-winning skipper Danny Smith is holding fire on a possible move to Dorchester Town because he wants to play in the Conference National. Magpies boss Mark Morris says his Conference South new boys will pay City whatever fee is
MORE than 180 Andover youngsters were stumped at the thought that some of their friends might opt to play football instead of cricket in the summer season. The 10th Andover Kwik Cricket Festival consisted of 14 town and rural schools enjoying the genteel
Neate result at Bereweeke Winchester Tennis and Squash Club recently staged their finals day when, despite the weather, an impressive day's tennis was played. The fianls were the culmination of a series of day round robin tournaments in doubles and knockout
LITTER louts will soon be hit with on the spot fines of up to £50 for dropping rubbish on the streets of Fareham. A team of enforcers with the power to slap fines on offenders is due to hit the streets in September. Anyone caught dropping anything on
RETIRED education welfare officer Keith Edwards has been sworn in as the new mayor of Gosport. The married father-of-two, who has been a councillor for six years, takes over the reins from Councillor Iris Binfield. Cllr Edwards who has lived in Gosport
BERKELEY Homes built just three houses on a small development in a Hampshire village - and now one of them is for sale on the second-hand residential market. Amberley (pictured) has barn-style elevations and a site that is next to open country-side in
WHILE Sir Cliff Richard is sipping Pimms and tucking into strawberries and cream at the Wimbledon men's final, Fareham's Ferneham Hall plays host to a tribute to the original Bachelor Boy starring Kytsun Wolfe as the Peter Pan of pop. This spectacular
FOLLOWING a massive tour of Australia, Ross Noble is back in the UK with a brand-new stand-up show, Noodlemeister, and you can see him at The Anvil on Thursday, July 8, from 8pm. Never one to rest, Noble flew straight to Australia off the back of his
