Fordingbridge will take a lot of pleasure from their 27-20 home defeat to a strong Surrey side. After going in at half time just three points in arrears Fordingbridge started the second half well and after early pressure Steve Brown slotted a penalty
Hampshire's Sean Ervine is expected to make his Western Australian debut later this week after he was named in the Warriors squad for Friday's opening Ford Ranger Cup match against Victoria. Ervine, who is entering his third season in the Warriors squad
Two goals behind midway through the second half, Winchester hit back to pull off a stunning 5-3 win over newly promoted South Premier League, Division 2 rivals Banbury at Drayton School. It was Winchester's second consecutive win, which leaves them level
Team Southampton's Neil Phillips broke new ground in the opening Hampshire Cross Country League fixture at Winchester's Farley Mount. He recorded his quickest time of 29 minutes and 15 seconds and his best place of fifth to lead the team to fifth in
SOLENT Suns international Louise Gamman is off to further her career in Italy. The power forward, who won a Commonwealth Games bronze medal with England in Melbourne earlier this year, has signed professional forms for Vicenza. Gamman has made huge
SOLENT Kestrels under-16s tipped off their season at the Quilley School of Engineering with a dramatic 73-72 win over Hackney White Heat. Solent led 23-11 at the end of the first quarter after Tom Woods had scored regularly. However, Kestrels' lead
SOUTHAMPTON star Steve Curtis has claimed the second of a possible FIVE titles in 2006. Back in early September Curtis, along with Bjorn Gjelsten, won his fourth European championship. Now he has been crowned American national champion after winning
UNDER-AGE drinking is playing a significant role in arson-related crime, which is costing Hamp-shire more than £100m each year. Fire chiefs warn that alcohol misuse is a key characteristic of young fire-raisers, who are mostly male. The Hampshire Fire
HAMPSHIRE troops in Iraq were this morning moving into a Basra district as part of a major operation that is hoped will eventually regenerate the war-torn city. More than 500 soldiers in the 1st Battalion Princess of Wales Royal Regiment are taking part
SUE Ballard (Letters, September 25) is quite correct to say that I rarely become involved in individual local planning issues. I believe that such intervention is best handled by local ward councillors. However, I believe that, as an MP, I can legitimately
SO Labour councillor Richard Williams is dissatisfied with the Labour government's pensioner free bus pass scheme (In My View, October 9). He does not remind us that the government left it to each council to have its own scheme, and did not properly
I FEEL sure that Tony Gray (Letters, October 4) wrote what he did purely to get we of the anti-EU fraternity fired up! He could possibly be forgiven if he had been pro-EEC from the start but he admits he voted no in 1975. I am at a loss to understand
PETER Burgon (Letters, October 7) is wrong when he asserts that speed is not a significant factor in road collisions. The statistics that he referred to are collected by officers ticking up to a maximum of six causes of an accident from a list of 77
I WOULD like to comment on the serial sex pest in West Totton. I live very close to the footpath where this man approached a ten-year-old. I walk all the routes through footpaths, everyday, at various times, and since news of the incident has broken
WE have recently been looking at schools to apply for September 2007 for our daughter. We have read numerous proposals from the council about secondary schools in Southampton and the reasons for closure or merging them. The comments last week from various
I WONDER how many people eating duck realise the suffering experienced by the birds during rearing, unless they're free range or organic. Factory farmed ducks are given no access to water other than for drinking, yet they're aquatic birds, so water is
A SPONSOR is desperately needed to secure the future of one of Hampshire's oldest and most popular carnivals. The Titchfield Bonfire Boys have also issued an appeal for volunteers to help marshal and steward this year's event, in Titchfield, near Fareham
Today's principal Southampton arrivals Legend of the Seas, passenger, 0500, 101; Autoroute, roro, 0730, 201; Aida, vehicle, 0930, 46; Maris, cargo, 1000, 203; Santiago Express, container, 1000, 206; Nordstrand, cargo, 1130, 36; Texas, roro, 1200, 34/
A TEAM of firefighters will be joining catwalk models to bring the very latest fashions to the people of Hampshire while helping raise money for charity. Fashion and Fun has been organised by the Hampshire branch of the Children's Fire and Burn Trust
Claus Lundekvam hopes to be in contention to end his two-month absence at Leicester City this weekend after continuing his comeback for the reserves last night. The Saints captain has not played for the first team since suffering an ankle injury in
James Thornby responded to new frontline competition at Gosport Borough by scoring four times in last night's 5-0 FA Vase replay win over Reading Town. The result books Alex Pike's men a mouthwatering all-Wessex tie at title rivals AFC Totton on November
The FA are waiting to hear from UEFA after accusations of racism from Germany players overshadowed England Under-21s reaching the European Championship finals. Micah Richards and Anton Ferdinand both alleged they were called "monkeys" by opposition
Super sub Jamie White scored two late goals as Saints came from behind to beat Millwall. On the night that Theo Walcott netted a stunning brace for England U21s, White offered a timely reminder that there is now another young striker making a name
A MAN was fighting for his life this morning after he suffered serious head injuries. The 40-year-old man has undergone emergency brain surgery as a result of the head wound he suffered after he was assaulted in Southampton last night. He was this morning
THE man whose decisions affect how much homeowners have to pay on their mortgages has revealed how his grandfather used to grow strawberries in Hedge End. In Winchester for a major speech last night, Mervyn King, pictured, governor of the Bank of England
Country music fans will say a final farewell tomorrow to one of the men who brought it to Southampton. Never before had the city had a club dedicated to country music but Reginald Lodge, who has died aged 74, changed all that. The former president of
A NEW way of driving home a crime prevention message to students in Hampshire is being launched. Next week a DVD called Safer Students will be officially unveiled at the Harbour Lights Cinema in Ocean Village, Southampton. The innovative DVD raises
THE second phase of a controversial scheme to slow down traffic through a New Forest village has come to an end. For the past month, a team of volunteers has been jotting down the registration numbers of motorists speeding through Lyndhurst. It was
A SPONSOR is desperately needed to secure the future of one of Hampshire's oldest and most popular carnivals. The Titchfield Bonfire Boys have also issued an appeal for volunteers to help marshal and steward this year's event, in Titchfield, near Fareham
CAMPAIGNERS have won their battle for a pedestrian crossing on a busy Hampshire road where a pensioner was killed. Plans for a crossing on the A326, which separates Hythe and Dibden Purlieu from the New Forest, have been agreed. It follows a 22-
IT was with a tear in his eye and a lump in his throat that one-quarter of one of the most famous rock bands on the planet returned to his hometown of Southampton. Coldplay drummer Will Champion took time out of the award-winning band's hectic schedule
