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  • Saints rocked by triple board departure

    Saints have been rocked by the sensational news that their chairman, chief executive and commercial director have all left the club. Ken Dulieu, Jim Hone and Andy Oldknow have all reached agreements to leave with immediate effect following the collapse

  • Feeling festive?

    http://www.scenesouth.co.uk/_images/misc/headers/single.jpg From: Julian Robinson To: Sally Churchward Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 2:40 PM Christmas and New Year – it’s coming up to party season; plenty of rum-laced eggnog and mistletoe. Sounds like

  • Couple set to celebrate 70 years of marriage

    MARGARET and Sidney Mitchenson are living proof that holiday romances can stay the course - as they prepare to celebrate 70 years of marriage. The couple from Park Gate will this week be partying with their friends and family to celebrate their milestone

  • Coventry City 1 Saints 1

    IT'S surely no coincidence that consistency has bred consistency. There has been chopping and changing all over the place in the Saints ranks this season. Much of it has been enforced due to the terrible injury problems that have beset the squad -

  • Escaped prisoner recaptured

    A PRISONER who escaped from the back of a police van has been re-arrested. Michael Tutt was detained in Banbury, Oxfordshire, by officers from Test Valley police yesterday, after 11 days on the run. The 24-year-old, from Spring Vale, Swanmore, was being

  • Eastleigh handed Trophy trip to Crawley

    IAN Baird's Eastleigh must travel to Blue Square Premier outfit Crawley Town in the FA Trophy second round on January 12. While the Spitfires were squeezing past Bognor Regis 1-0 on Saturday to reach the last 32 for the first time in their history

  • Crackdown on litter louts raises £16,000

    MORE than 400 fines were slapped on litter bugs in south west Hampshire last year - raising nearly £16,000, figures have revealed. But an offender's chances of getting caught depended heavily on where the litter was dropped, the Department for Environment

  • Showdown over £70,000 arts grants cut

    ARTS groups in Southampton are holding a showdown with Tory council leaders today over plans to slash £70,000 in grants. Five groups will see up to 15 per cent of their grants axed under Conservative budget plans which will undermine their future finances

  • Robber put behind bars indefinitely

    A SERIAL offender who held a knife to the throat of an elderly taxi driver and threatened to kill him, has been re-sentenced to an indefinite spell behind bars. Nicholas Rankin, 32, had been jailed for eight years last month for attempting to rob 74-

  • Final farewell for senior clergyman

    ONE of Southampton's most senior clergymen has said his final farewell to his parishioners as he took his last service in the city before retirement. Dignitaries including Southampton mayor Stephen Barnes-Andrews, Sheriff Brian Parnell and MP John Denham

  • Thanksgiving service for hit-and-run crash victim

    THE FUNERAL of a popular Southampton youngster who was killed in a hit and run collision will take place tomorrow. The ceremony for Theo Hixon-Denton, which will only be attended by his family and close friends, will take place at the East Chapel of

  • City madam loses appeal over three-year jail sentence

    THE woman behind one of Southampton's biggest prostitution rings has had her appeal to cut her sentence refused. Judges at London's Court of Appeal upheld Sharon Moir's three-year jail term despite the fact she argued it was "manifestly excessive".

  • Low-flying plane is costing sleepless nights

    CAN anybody tell me why Im kept awake almost every night by a low-flying plane going round and round above my house in Hedge End? Just the other night I was just starting to get off to sleep when my wife said loudly "that's 18 times I make it.'' What

  • We can deliver the agenda

    On 15th November, in a reply to a Commons question about work placements from Warley MP John Spellar, The Rt. Honourable John Denham, Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills said "Since 1997, we have expanded the number of apprenticeships

  • Ikea should have second thoughts

    I'VE got to add my thoughts on the siting of the new store. If the patrons of other Ikea stores across the country are to be believed, there are lenghty waits to get in to their car parks, which in our case would be idling vehicles on Millbrook Road,

  • Time to stop whinging, Tories

    OVER recent weeks we have had constant whinging from Conservative councillors about what they say is lack of support from Central Government. No government in the last 30 years has given the financial support local councillors feel it should get, but

  • Watching carefully

    SADLY, the Conservative run county council have ignored the public and have transferred the Tower to Kings'. Their own survey showed that the vast majority wanted the Tower to remain as is, 17 per cent favouring the transfer to Kings' School. Councillor

  • Southend in £5,000 bid for Damian

    Eastleigh - through to the last 32 of the FA Trophy for the first time in their history - face a fight to keep hold of their dazzling winger Damian Scannell. After watching his side scrape past Bognor Regis Town 1-0 at the Silverlake Stadium on Saturday

  • Wright Phillips: "I should have scored two"

    Bradley Wright-Phillips may have earned Saints a point at Coventry with his second goal in two games. But he was left rueing the one that got away. Wright-Phillips has scored with headers in back-to-back games for Saints and on Saturday it brought his

  • Holmes blasts "shocking" Salisbury

    Exeter City 3-0 Salisbury City A furious Nick Holmes described his Salisbury side's performance as "clown-like" after City were dumped out of the FA Trophy 3-0 at Exeter City. Uncharacteristically, the Saints legend struggled to contain his anger

  • Man named after river plunge

    POLICE have today named the man who died after falling from the Itchen Bridge. David Francis Sheldrake, from Burgess Road in Southampton was pulled from the water at around 5pm on Friday following sightings from members of the public. The 52-year-old

  • Plans for 89-home development

    CONTENTIOUS plans for scores of homes on the northern edge of Winchester have been unveiled. Redrow Homes displayed its proposals for 89 homes at Abbotts Barton to local residents this week at Winchester Rugby Club. The developer says that the development

  • Victim faces £1,000 dental bill after attack

    THE VICTIM of an assault faces a potential £1,000 bill for dental treatment after being struck in the face with a bottle, a court heard. Steven Doe was struck in the mouth outside Southampton's Leisure World complex by a bottle thrown by Matthew Hawkins

  • Naomi House patients get ice-skating treat

    IT was a Christmas treat they will never forget. Patients at a children's hospice were given exclusive access to the temporary ice rink at the 900-year-old Winchester Cathedral yesterday. About 20 youngsters from Naomi House took to the ice for an hour

  • Lease error forces popular bar to shut temporarily

    A POPULAR student bar has been forced to shut for almost a fortnight due to an administrative error. The Hobbit pub will undergo a small refurbishment over the festive period before coming back with a bang for New Year's Eve. A change in the licensing

  • MP backs police in pay row

    EASTLEIGH MP and Liberal Democrat leadership contender Chris Huhne has backed the police in their pay dispute with the government. Mr Huhne said the police had been "fairly and squarely" awarded 2.5 per cent by the police arbitration tribunal and ministers

  • Dowie looks forward to New Year sales

    Coventry boss Iain Dowie will be giving new chairman Ray Ranson his shopping list when the pair meet for the first time this week. The SISU Capital Consortium, which is headed by former Manchester City defender Ranson, completed its takeover of the Sky

  • Dozens protest over library plans

    CAMPAIGNERS gathered en masse to oppose contentious plans to slash opening hours at Southampton libraries. Dozens of protestors met outside Cobbett Road Library to urge council chiefs to rethink their budget proposals - and they demonstrated their strength

  • Burley hopes for new investment

    George Burley played a totally straight bat to questions about Saints' financial future. The manager was quizzed by journalists about the state of his club's finances and what next month's transfer window could hold in store for him. Saints' executive