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  • Hants beat Surrey in Rose Bowl run fest

    After two successive Twenty20 away defeats, Hampshire returned to form with a clinical win against Surrey. Hampshire are at their best at the Rose Bowl - they have only lost one of their last six Twenty20 home games – and they thrilled a crowd of 4,800

  • Fall in drivers planning to buy second-hand cars

    THE number of people planning to buy a second-hand car has fallen sharply, it was revealed today. Around 4.5m intend to purchase a used vehicle in the period March-August this year - 12 per cent down on the number who planned to buy in the

  • Recruitment drive at job centres to help unemployed

    THOUSANDS of front line staff are to be recruited into Jobcentre Plus in an effort to get people back into work, the government announced today. Around 10,000 "customer facing advisers" will support jobseekers with CV writing and skills training to searching

  • Church reveals high hopes for roof fund

    IT is fundraising drive that is really reaching for the sky. For worshippers at a Hampshire church have launched an appeal to raise £78,000 to reroof its nave – final phase of a project to make sure that Portchester’s St Mary’s Church is sound

  • Hampshire is hot, hot, hot - again

    HAMPSHIRE was basking in scorching temperatures again today. Weather forecasters predicted that the mercury would climb to 27C (81F), the hottest day of the year so far. People grabbed their buckets and spades and flocked to the beach

  • Traffic nightmare for drivers on major Hampshire route

    DRIVERS were facing huge tailbacks in Hampshire today after a three-car accident on one of the county's busiest routes. Traffic heading through the New Forest on the A31 dual-carriageway was being delayed by a shunt at Poulner Hill, near Ringwood. Queues

  • Pensioners fear forced moves will kill them

    AFTER months of worry about what their future holds, residents of two care homes in Southampton this week received the news they were dreading. Council chiefs announced they were launching a fresh bid to close the homes, four months after the

  • Miracle girl Aya finally going home to her dad

    A MIRACLE baby born two days after her mother’s death is finally well enough to go home. Aya Soliman was delivered by Caesarean section at just 25 weeks even though mum Jayne had been declared brain dead after she had suffered a massive haemorrhage

  • Who will buy rock star art?

    THEY are works of art any rock fan would be proud to hang on their wall. Twenty-five paintings of seminal band The Who, commissioned by guitarist Pete Townshend and singer Roger Daltrey, are coming up for sale and could fetch a total of £200,000

  • Cheers as new terminal opens

    THERE were three cheers for Southampton’s new £19m Ocean Terminal, which officially opened yesterday. The futuristic shaped passenger terminal in the Eastern Docks, right, will now become home to some of the world’s largest and most famous ships